greetings and apology - General Tiki

E emspace Member Vancouver Joined: Jan 05, 2003 Posts: 879	E emspace Posted posted on Sat, Nov 17, 2018 8:45 AM emspace here. Yep, I live and breathe and even sometimes thrive. :) I'm not back to hang, life is busy and my focus is elsewhere, but I do want to apologize to some members who I know I grievously insulted by harping on about how "surf and rockabilly are not tiki." Well, I get it now, I really truly do, and I think tiki mixed with surf and rockabilly are just fine, and even cool. I now understand the Southern California connection that people were trying to explain to me - that whole thing with rockabilly shirts and stingy-brim hats and tattoos, and how it all connects with the tiki bar and exotic cocktail thing, and I actually admire it and wish I could have been there. These folks were in every way doing their part to make tiki a LIVING scene rather than a closeted individual obsession, which was pretty much what I was going through. So to all you SoCal rockabilly and surf tikis, I humbly apologize, very belatedly I know, for being a tiki Nazi, and hope the scene is still going strong. From what I've seen from a few connections I've made out there, it is, and that makes me happy. all the best from emspace.

emspace here. Yep, I live and breathe and even sometimes thrive. :)

I'm not back to hang, life is busy and my focus is elsewhere, but I do want to apologize to some members who I know I grievously insulted by harping on about how "surf and rockabilly are not tiki." Well, I get it now, I really truly do, and I think tiki mixed with surf and rockabilly are just fine, and even cool. I now understand the Southern California connection that people were trying to explain to me - that whole thing with rockabilly shirts and stingy-brim hats and tattoos, and how it all connects with the tiki bar and exotic cocktail thing, and I actually admire it and wish I could have been there. These folks were in every way doing their part to make tiki a LIVING scene rather than a closeted individual obsession, which was pretty much what I was going through.

So to all you SoCal rockabilly and surf tikis, I humbly apologize, very belatedly I know, for being a tiki Nazi, and hope the scene is still going strong. From what I've seen from a few connections I've made out there, it is, and that makes me happy.

all the best from emspace.

Post #791214 by emspace on Sat, Nov 17, 2018 8:45 AM