Post #452771 by KreepyTiki on Sat, May 9, 2009 4:20 PM

NO -- I do NOT mean the nasty lil' Bot Fly -- I mean 'The Book Of Tiki', of course!

And I thought it would make for a very interesting thread to find out the How, When, Where, etc. of people's first encounter with that virulently infectious and often life-changing literary cornucopia of all things Tiki.

So please feel free to share your own experiences with the rest of the ohana, told in your own individual way, of how that influential book influenced YOU personally -- what you were doing then and what you're doing now in the unique community we call "tiki".

For me, it all began innocently enough about ten years ago in Santa Monica, California, at an unassuming but koolamundo little bookstore (still there) called Hi De Ho Comics. (LOVE their no parking signs: "We tow very much. Make you sad.") And of course they had SO much more there besides comics. And one of the books they had, which drew me like the proverbial moth to the flame, was... Yep. Uh huh. That's the one.

Flash forward ten or so years and I no longer sleep in a bedroom -- I sleep in a tiki lounge; on my stereo, Bowie/Dylan/The Doors/Cohen/Portishead (whatever) has given way to Baxter, Denny, and Lyman; I used to write poetry -- now I'm writing for Tiki Magazine; I used to paint watercolor landscapes, classical nudes and portraits -- now I paint exotic/erotic wahines surrounded by... tikis; I used to go to random Hollywood parties -- now I attend tiki events by the score; and my kitchen cupboards which used to contain the usual assortment of glasses and plates, etc. are now overflowing with hundreds of tiki mugs!

I only jest in part, but I seriously attribute these various changes to the benignly pernicious influence of Mr. Sven A. Kirsten and his lingering legacy!

Well, that's my story in a nutshell.

What's yours?

Cheers & Mahalo :drink: :tiki:

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