Post #386824 by GROG on Fri, Jun 13, 2008 9:45 AM

Hey, now GROG think we really got to the heart of the matter! Sven sound like he was getting too frustrated earlier in the thread before everything was clarified enough for all to understand, newbies and oldies alike. GROG glad GROG could lure Sven back to the table, so that things could be better clarified and we can all learn and move in a more coherent and cohesive direction. Teaching can be frustrating, but requires patience. You did some nice exposition there for a guy who put out two books that are mostly photos. :)

Now GROG is going to go to Ventura Blvd. and buy the restaurant/bar, AMAZONS which is decorated as a tropical rainforest with a waterfall in the middle and a black-clothed ceiling that simulates a night sky (with shooting star).
GROG going to take out any "Amazonian" art and leave the tropical decorations. GROG going to add Tikis all over the place, have servers dressed Polynesian, and serve tropical drinks. There will be beautiful colorful flowers brought in from Hawaii for decaorations, along with pineapples, and live colorful birds such as Toucans and Parrots.There will be a Volcano in the corner that erupts whenever anybody orders "The Virgin Sacrifice", a new tasty drink invented by Atomikitty in a special Volcano Bowl designed by GROG and sculpted by Squid, and served by a beautiful tropically dressed server in a special ceremony. It will contain certain elements in the restaurant/bar that tie it into Tiki from the 50s as illustrated in the BOOK OF TIKI, but overall it will be more tropical, resembling an idealized version of ancient Hawaii, or Tahiti, or some such tropical paradise. Maybe even a Hawaiian Hula troupe performing at certain times (with fireknife dancer) This form of restaurant decaoration and splendor will become popular and GROG will start a franchise. This new off-shoot of TIKI will be labeled "POLYNESIAN TROPICAL", and SVEN will call it "POLY-TROP" in his newest TIKI BOOK put out in the year 2053 documenting the TIKI REVIVAL in the early 21st century and it's subsets it spawned such as Poly-trop, and Hula-Billy which was a mixture of the Rockabilly culture and Tiki. There will be a website where Poly-trop purists argue with the newbies about how the newbies don't understand true Poly-trop and are buying all this cheap plastic Party City
crap that isn't colorful enough to be called true Poly-trop. Poly-trop enthusiasts will all hate this pop-star singer who wrote a song about drinking at the tropical paradise bar after a hard day at work. Tiki Central will still be around, but the members will get sick and tired of all the Poly-trop enthusiasts who join thinking that just because it has tikis, Tiki Central is Poly-tropical.There will be a link that Hanford has put up directing them to go to PARADISE CENTRAL which was started and modified by Tiki Bong who, still being banned from TikiCentral, started his own website for Poly-trop enthusiasts. GROG will have lost the TROPICAL PARADISE franchise years ealier in a hostile take-over by the Disney corporation, and GROG will die angry,lonely, broke, and forgotten in a run-down shack somewhere in the midwest. The only mourner who will show up at GROG' funeral is GROG' longtime freind Squid who hadn't talked to GROG in 25 years after they had a falling out when all the fame and fortune had gone to GROG' head during the hey-day of the Poly-trop movement. Ken ruzic will send an on-line virtual Hallmark card to Squid with a damned squirrel on it and a stupid smiley after he writes some sort of long narative that talks more about him and his art and barely mentions anything about GROG. Bamboo Ben will be celebrating the opening of Bambooworld in Florida following the success of Bambooland he opened 15 years ealier in California.