Post #355161 by GatorRob on Tue, Jan 15, 2008 5:19 PM

Ha! Funny stuff. Grog, you've got hidden skills! Maybe you should consider getting a job drawing cartoons for a living? :D

But, Grog's post does remind me of an excellent post from Sabu (not that Grog's wasn't excellent too) last year illustrating why the Buffetization of tiki is a BAD thing. And why when some people insist that it's all tiki and it's all good, they will get a strong (and unfortunately sometimes rude) reaction from people who believe that tiki has a real definition and that there are boundaries that define it. His post can be found here.

From his post, I love the term "Sophisticated Savage". That nails what good tiki is for me. Sophisticated, yet primal at the same time. Modern knockoff "tiki" stuff throws out both of those terms and goes straight for fun or goofy. And in my mind, that completely misses the point.