Post #516765 by KuKuAhu on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 7:35 AM

On 2010-03-11 23:19, bigbrotiki wrote:
I am sorry this interesting discussion about the Mai Kai and the state of mixology got turned into a personal vendetta by someone because, in a side line, I was musing about the evolution of the word mixology from obscure and forgotten to fashionable, and my having a part in the rebirth of it (again, the term).

Wow. I can't decide if you are back pedaling because you realized you don't have a leg to stand on, or because you realized that you just credited yourself with resurrecting the word "mixology" in a thread that will show up on Google hits for the Mai Kai.

I suspect a bit of both.

But now we have the revisionist version: you just had a part in the resurrection. Even though your first post stated outright that it was a dead term before the BOT.

(please note: another term that had gone extinct before published in the Book of Tiki )

Sven, it was a page ago. Come on. You can't tell me this is just a personal vendetta. My god, do you really think that I chose to call you out on this because I spend my time waiting for you to "make a mistake"? As Tim pointed out, I haven't posted in two years. That isn't exactly stalking. Get over yourself already.

Anyway, that quote isn't a mistake.. it is a pompous and ridiculous claim.

I've said it before, and you just didn't get it.. because you think the following:

"If you did not know me and live in California in the early nineties, then you did not and still do not know anything about tiki. Until I wrote the BOT, you were all unaware that tiki existed. I don't care about your Coco Joes collection or the fact that you had been going to the Kahiki your whole life (or the Mai Kai.. or the Kowloon... or the Hala Kahiki.. or countless other incredible places that are not in California). Until I gave you The Book of Tiki, you did not know anything. And I will remind you all of this again and again and again."

Okay? Does that about cover it? We get it, Sven.

I never took issue with your book. I bought it right when it came out. Although I am unsure of how I could have known to buy it before I read it and "discovered" tiki... but that must be some kind of space-time thing.

No, I enjoyed the BOT, and was glad someone took the time to document something I loved.

I just wish someone else had written it. Someone humble like Jeff Berry. Someone helpful and supportive like Otto. Anyone.. anyone but you.

So relax.. I am not "out to get you" you pompous ass. I don't have the time to stalk esoteric "celebrities". But if you really think that I or someone else is going to sit by and watch without comment as you make claims like that... the term mixology had gone extinct before the BOT.

..you wouldn't bat an eyelash at ripping some new TCer for posting a picture of an item they thought was tiki and you disagree. So what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

You take the time to think before you post, and I'll probably never trouble your bubble again.

Ahu