Post #45602 by AquaZombie on Fri, Aug 1, 2003 2:35 PM

I'm curious - does anyone else out there who wears a tiki idol necklace (and who doesn't?) get asked continuously if they're mimicking Greg Brady in that stupid surfing episode? I even got this in Hawaii - from Hawaiians! I just wrote a piece for "Too Much Coffee Man" magazine on Tiki Culture (due out in the Fall) and the gist of it is that even though tiki iconography is currently trendy in all aspects of our culture, most mainstream minions still think Tiki - a postwar phenom that peaked in the 50s and 60s - basically derives from a 70s sitcom episode. This is truly pathetic.

Anyone else constantly put in this position of explaining/defending their tiki necklace while out in the cluess world, or is it just me?