Post #234180 by Sabina on Fri, May 26, 2006 4:14 PM

I'm with KuKuAhu, and couldn't have said it better. (Raises mug to KuKuAhu!)

No need to proselytize, there's more than enough of that going around.

Instead, I support what's left, research what was, and from time to time throw my own here at the Lounge of the Seven Pleasures. There's a small knot of us Md/DC/VA Tikiphiles and we have a website- people who are interested find us. Moral of the story- hang out a shingle, people will find you, after all isn't that what TC itself is?

My friends and relatives know this is my 'hobby', and get into the spirit of the thing perhaps a bit more than some of the other 'friends and family' stories I hear from time to time here on TC. My folks are respectful, they enjoy the Lounge, and they like the Volcano bowls at tribal gathering.

If friends want to meet up at a Tiki event, or a Tiki venue in some city that's neat. Friends who visit the Lounge almost immediately notice the book of Tiki I leave out on one of the tables, they thumb through it or the Grog Log as I mix them a Mai Tai and they get a hint of what the real is- but it's up to them whether it's just a nice place to sit, listen to some Arthur Lyman and have a drink and talk with a friend, or of they're really fascinated by what this place is and the history of places like it. Anyone wanting more is pointed towards TC, but I don't go around leaving TC cards as in airport bathrooms.

Now, all that said, I did once receive a "tiki tract" as part of an e-bay for a Tiki item, and it had me laughing good and hard, BUT it was from from a Tiki person to a Tiki person, an internal joke, as Tiki sure as hell doesn't need evangelizing tracts! If anything, it more pokes fun at the act of proselytizing itself.

The very notion of something so relaxing and take life as it comes out proselytizing is laughable on the face of it.

And anyone caught doing so around my bar will be sent over the side of the island with the headhunters.