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MIT Mustang Island Tiki Member South Texas Joined: Feb 16, 2008 Posts: 24	MIT Mustang Island Tiki Posted posted on Sat, Mar 8, 2008 6:34 PM On 2008-03-08 17:55, tekoteko wrote: Hmm. Izzy the Islander. Anyone labeling him bad tiki is read "Texas A&M Corpus Christi" as "Tiki A&M Corpus Christi" or something...time to get the eyes checked maybe? He's a mascot. He's Izzy the Islander. He represents Texas A&M Corpus Christi...the "Islanders" of the NCAA basketball tournament a few years back. I don't see "tiki" listed anywhere on his name. But we must bash it because it doesn't look like it fell out of a trader vic's or something. That said. I like Izzy the Islander, I like Corpus Christi...and hell I almost went to school at TAMU-CC :). It most certainly is Tiki inspired and that is a good thing! Whether of not Izzy conforms to a certain island culture's style, I could care less. A great deal of Tiki culture is made up on the go--that is what is one of the things that is so cool about it!! It embraces everything from Easter Island to a bit of Roswell, Surfers and beach bums to starving artists and mixologists; Cultural anthropology to the wonderful tackiness that is Hawaiian shirts, Don Ho, Ukuleles at sunset, and the wonderfully poetic forms of the hula dancer--and much, much more!!! Tiki culture to me, is a most-moveable feast that defies a strict definition but instead thrives on a vast eclectic blend what I like to think of as tropical optimism and an unshakable instinct to just simply laze around and go with the flow of what we like to call here: “island time.” Mustang Island Tiki [ Edited by: Mustang Island Tiki 2008-03-08 18:35 ]

On 2008-03-08 17:55, tekoteko wrote:
Hmm. Izzy the Islander. Anyone labeling him bad tiki is read "Texas A&M Corpus Christi" as "Tiki A&M Corpus Christi" or something...time to get the eyes checked maybe? He's a mascot. He's Izzy the Islander. He represents Texas A&M Corpus Christi...the "Islanders" of the NCAA basketball tournament a few years back. I don't see "tiki" listed anywhere on his name. But we must bash it because it doesn't look like it fell out of a trader vic's or something.

That said. I like Izzy the Islander, I like Corpus Christi...and hell I almost went to school at TAMU-CC :).

It most certainly is Tiki inspired and that is a good thing!

Whether of not Izzy conforms to a certain island culture's style, I could care less. A great deal of Tiki culture is made up on the go--that is what is one of the things that is so cool about it!! It embraces everything from Easter Island to a bit of Roswell, Surfers and beach bums to starving artists and mixologists; Cultural anthropology to the wonderful tackiness that is Hawaiian shirts, Don Ho, Ukuleles at sunset, and the wonderfully poetic forms of the hula dancer--and much, much more!!!

Tiki culture to me, is a most-moveable feast that defies a strict definition but instead thrives on a vast eclectic blend what I like to think of as tropical optimism and an unshakable instinct to just simply laze around and go with the flow of what we like to call here: “island time.”

Mustang Island Tiki

[ Edited by: Mustang Island Tiki 2008-03-08 18:35 ]

Post #365640 by Mustang Island Tiki on Sat, Mar 8, 2008 6:34 PM