Post #323083 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Aug 3, 2007 3:00 PM

On 2007-07-31 12:05, TikiLaLe wrote:
Looks like the 'koolkids' are coming unraveled....stay tuned !!!!

This is strictly a Hoity Toity matter. It has nothing to do with the koolkids

On 2007-07-30 18:19, billybobaloo wrote:
BUZZY, PLEASE SAY YOU WERE KIDDING!!

Billybobaloo: No, I was serious. However, things have been settled, CHANGES TO THE CHOP HAVE BEEN MADE, and the chop will be better than before. Read on for my explanation…

I’m glad all of you are so interested in making this event at Tiki Oasis a successful and memorable one. I’m also glad that there are people like Cammo who have been working for months trying to make this event happen by coordinating ALL of the aspects of this carving village.( And, I’d like to mention he did all this pretty much on his own. We just all nodded yes when he told us what the newest plan or idea for the chop, and he would call us back a couple days later and say he made it happen. ) Additionally, I’d like to especially thank everyone who has ever come to or been involved with us at one of our San diego Chop events since the very first event at Mieko’s house last November. We’ve had seven or eight of these events so far with the attendance ranging from 10 to about 25 people( and Clysdalle, the eating machine). The format and spirit of these events have been informal. Everyone is invited and everyone contributes what he or she can at the time for the collective well being of all. When Cammo came up with the idea of taking or show on the road to Tiki Oasis and be the central attraction of a Carving Village, we all thought that would be great. We wanted to exhibit how a bunch of burnouts and losers could come together and make tikis together, and hopefully inspire our guests to follow in our footsteps and organize chop events in their areas. It’s no small surprise that the San Diego carving and tiki art scene have been exploding lately. There are some amazingly talented artists here, and we all inspire, push, and help each other. We are the future of tiki, like it or not. There are many differing views on what the definition of tiki is in a historical context, but we, the current American producers of tiki art are in the process defining what tiki will be in the future. When people look back on tiki a few decades, hopefully they will find that in their historical references, the true heyday of tiki came about in 2008, when carving clubs sprouted up around America, after a group of friends from SoCal got together and held a carving jam.
I kind of got side tracked there so I’ll try to get back on topic, sorry…
So, some of my friends from the core group of the chop guys were wondering why I pulled out of the event earlier…Sorry it took me so long to get back to some of you and then post my explanation here, but first I’d like to thank some of the people who have nothing to do with the planning or organization this event for weighing in on the matter. It seems those who know the least have the most to say…
With that, I’ll try to make this brief:

I’ll admit it, I originally pulled out of this event because of issues with my enormous ego. I will not be upstaged by anyone, ever, nor will I even share the spotlight for a moment with others, and I feel like not only myself, but most of the whole group of original chop guys are being upstaged in our own house, at our own party. I threw a big tantrum, used a lot of bad words, and threatened to take all my logs and go home, and I got my way in the end.

This started the whole mess, in my opinion:

On 2007-07-23 17:11, Tiki-Kate wrote:
In all my wacky Girl Power fervor, I told Cammo, as not to interfere with the integrity of the event, that I would spend the whole weekend carving in go-go boots. Just wanted to prove the point that women can do anything men can do, and yes, we can do it in heels.

And this didn’t help:

On 2007-07-31 18:17, CheekyGirl wrote:
I'm with Kate, I too will be choping in Go-Go Boots as well!

So the girls are trying distract the focus of the event to themselves by looking hot. None of the guys in attendance at Tiki Oasis will watch interesting things like me carve a tiki in ten minutes or less, Babalu do that Peyote spinning carving windmill thing, Clysdalle eat, or Tikidav, the freaky robot perfect tiki making machine in action, because they will be watching chicks carve in inappropriate carving attire. This is sexy, but plain and simple discriminating sexism, and it was not going to happen on my watch. Not in the house that I helped build.
Rather than get all the guys pissed off at me and demand a dress code for the ladies, I decided to make all the ladies in attendance happy and carve in chick friendly attire:

Ladies, come check out Buzzy, The Sexiest Tiki Carver Alive, carving in his naughty nautical themed outfit at the Tiki Oasis Carving Village.

Never has my star shined so bright! I’ll have autographed color postcards of this new promo shot for sale for the ladies and you can take of picture of yourselves sitting on my lap for an extra dollar.

Oh yeah, the other change I had insisted on was no more 30 minute individual seminars. It’s just like the regular chops where we all just sit around talking and working, Clysdalle eating, our visitors wandering around and asking questions of whomever they want at whatever time they want, and our guest carvers carving side by side with us while we all help each other discover the joy of carving.

If any of you respond to this, could you please not hit “quote”. Just write “Re: Buzzy said…“ instead so we do not have to see this long post over and over. But please, leave the picture, because I cannot get enough of that.

Buzzy (was) Out!
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Buzzy is a Tiki Guy and carver from Bay Park. I am the former Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines “Mr. Sexy Legs” and one time I ate a two pound chili burger in 11 minutes. I also invented surfing and punk rock- Buz