Post #230639 by Formikahini on Fri, May 5, 2006 10:53 AM

Don't know how I found out about on-line Tiki News and Otto (through my friend Freddy Fortune maybe?), but he and I made our way to the closing of the Kahiki because of it/him. The only people I knew there beforehand were Freddy and John Bloom, aka Joe Bob Briggs, there to write a history of the mai tai for like "Golf Monthly."

There I met this GREAT group of people: Mr. Smiley, ikitnrev, Otto and Baby Doe, Sven, Patrick the Silver Fox, Jim & Elise ChiselSlinger (thanks to their luau the next day) - who am I leaving out? I now realize I've stayed in or at least visited almost every one of their homes, and many of them mine, since then!! But I still hadn't gotten with it TC-wise. Then came Otto's Birthday party at the Madonna Inn. Or next, the first Tease-o-Rama? Well, then came Tiki Oasis II and Room 135. Everybody was talking about this "Tiki Central" thing. It was inevitable. (But why did it take me so freakin' long to join?!?)