Post #197898 by Swanky on Sun, Nov 13, 2005 9:54 PM

BK, you know I reach you.. Wait that's from Star Trek... something about Eden...

I'd say I am 98% of the tongue holding variety. There is a ton of wacky faces on logs out there. Much of what is "tiki" is also primative, but there is something very stylistically missing in what I see that is even very simple.

The one thing that I have learned about tiki from Hukilau and other events is that it is a central theme enjoyed by a variety of people who are primarily into other sub-cultures. You see a lot of flaming tiki tattoos around. And then there are those really into the core... The core?

Is the core Don Beach and Trader Vic or Hawaii and Fiji and New Zealand? Or both? Well, the former for me, and the latter upon deeper searching.

Tiki has become a term for many cultures and can mean an awful lot (emphasis on awful). Polynesian Pop (no silly, not that guy, the movement) is what we're fans of. The time when there was a tiki bar in every major city and Mai Tais were king.

I am regularly surprised, even in this tight part of the community, by what people have in their homes and what they define as tiki for themselves. I have learned I am a tiki fundy. A curmudgeon perhaps for some.

We still have our bible. BoT defines it for us. That's enough.

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[ Edited by: swanky 2005-11-14 07:20 ]