Post #609523 by emspace on Sun, Oct 9, 2011 9:44 AM

komohana, sorry if I rained on your or anyone's parade. I like to think the fact that I've been into this thing since before "The Book of Tiki" was released (seeing it for the first time in a high-end Vancouver bookstore was like "ah, my Bible has been written at last!"), and that the seed was planted in childhood when I grew up in the early 60s, visiting Hawaii where my auntie lived and regularly being taken to a real Tiki restaurant in my hometown might count for something. You can still enjoy my posts without agreeing with them.

People nowadays hate being "schooled" don't they? - that's why it's considered an insulting term. Another way to look at it might be simply acknowledging, in an adult way, that some people are more experienced and maybe have given a subject deeper thought and practice, and maybe their ideas are worth listening to. There's a lot of disrespect for that in our culture now; it's pretty adolescent IMO. The whole "it's all about ME and MY ideas" thing we see in reality TV and permeating our society is not - again, IMO - very damn healthy.

But hey - YMMV. Live and let live. Here's the Swanky exotica link for those who don't know it: http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2010/08/14/swank-vinyl-exotica-is-free/.

aloha,
em.

PS here's that restaurant for those who might not have seen it: http://www.backattheranch.ca/mike/Beachcomber-exterior.jpg

[ Edited by: emspace 2011-10-09 10:02 ]