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T tikifa Member Joined: Mar 16, 2003 Posts: 7	T tikifa Posted posted on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 1:29 AM Hellos and heys and hi-hi-hi's! To you, Shipwreckjoey: thanks for the good words. Nah, I don't think I'm no Mickey Spillane, 'cept when I got my hands around a nice warm gat or a naughty cool broad... And to you, Formikahini: you googled on me? Eek! I feel so very...naked, so vulnerable! Yeah, I have a strange, creeping feeling that somehow, at some point, all this Moist 'n Chewy Tiki Goodness is gonna work its way into some sort of written something or other, probably an academic thingie in which I can use words like "exoticism" and "fetish" and "distillation process." I once ranted about my Tiki fixation to an Eminent African Art Historian over a couple of Moai-mugged Mai Tais, and I said, "You know, I think this Tiki thing might be my entry point into the study of Oceanic Arts!" His response was a gem: "Yeah, right," he said. But I was serious. No, really, I was. Seriously. Anyway, that Sven Kirsten feller has done a truly suave bit of historical work with that Book of You-Know-What, and it's sure to keep us all busy and giddy for some time to come. That chunky volume is one luscious, joyous romp through the tiki-fields, and it's got all sorts of brightly colored pictures to boot. Won't find THAT coming from any academic press, I tell you whut... As for traveling from South America to Tahiti on a boat: who HASN'T dreamed of doing that? Me, I'd love to go. Got a boat? And to you, Sabina: thanks for the fine info on Yenching Palace! I was just there a couple of weeks ago, suckin' down all those happy little nectars and chompin' away on a mound of Yu Ling Duck. I'm not in DC now, but I'll be back for most of May. Have you been to the Honolulu restaurant in Alexandria? Right on the money, that joint. And Politiki, on Pennsylvania Ave? Hoo HOO, those Presidential Tiki Mugs are quite the little somethings, ain't they? And then there's a place that seems to have opened up just recently--can't think of the name or the street (sorry), but I'm gonna try and retrace my steps and find it again when I'm back again in Our Nation's Capital. I'll be sure to make a report. Perhaps I'll run into you there? All Good Things, tikifa

Hellos and heys and hi-hi-hi's!

To you, Shipwreckjoey: thanks for the good words. Nah, I don't think I'm no Mickey Spillane, 'cept when I got my hands around a nice warm gat or a naughty cool broad...

And to you, Formikahini: you googled on me? Eek! I feel so very...naked, so vulnerable! Yeah, I have a strange, creeping feeling that somehow, at some point, all this Moist 'n Chewy Tiki Goodness is gonna work its way into some sort of written something or other, probably an academic thingie in which I can use words like "exoticism" and "fetish" and "distillation process." I once ranted about my Tiki fixation to an Eminent African Art Historian over a couple of Moai-mugged Mai Tais, and I said, "You know, I think this Tiki thing might be my entry point into the study of Oceanic Arts!"

His response was a gem: "Yeah, right," he said. But I was serious. No, really, I was. Seriously.

Anyway, that Sven Kirsten feller has done a truly suave bit of historical work with that Book of You-Know-What, and it's sure to keep us all busy and giddy for some time to come. That chunky volume is one luscious, joyous romp through the tiki-fields, and it's got all sorts of brightly colored pictures to boot. Won't find THAT coming from any academic press, I tell you whut...

As for traveling from South America to Tahiti on a boat: who HASN'T dreamed of doing that? Me, I'd love to go. Got a boat?

And to you, Sabina: thanks for the fine info on Yenching Palace! I was just there a couple of weeks ago, suckin' down all those happy little nectars and chompin' away on a mound of Yu Ling Duck. I'm not in DC now, but I'll be back for most of May. Have you been to the Honolulu restaurant in Alexandria? Right on the money, that joint. And Politiki, on Pennsylvania Ave? Hoo HOO, those Presidential Tiki Mugs are quite the little somethings, ain't they? And then there's a place that seems to have opened up just recently--can't think of the name or the street (sorry), but I'm gonna try and retrace my steps and find it again when I'm back again in Our Nation's Capital. I'll be sure to make a report. Perhaps I'll run into you there?

All Good Things,

tikifa

Post #28364 by tikifa on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 1:29 AM