Tiki on the Huffington Post

Well, how did this happen? Is the tiki revival finally news-aggregate worthy?

Stefan Beck wrote a little article for the HuffPo, complete with some pictures of what one may describe as a "tiki party."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-beck/tiki-drinks-cocktails-culture_b_698358.html

There are also these:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tanja-m-laden/tiki-oasis-2010_b_698362.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-derrick/tiki-artists-celebrate-an_b_686867.html

That's a lot of tiki in one summer. Has the Huffington Post caught the bug?

How did your tiki passion get started? And what's that weird bowl that your grandfather gave you?

I come by it honestly, I suppose. The Red Cross Blood Bank informed my father that he has a blood factor usually found only in Pacific Islanders. My mother went into labor with me performing "Hawaiian War Dance" whilst watching Sha Na Na. And being raised Jewish, I spent many hours in old-school Chinese-American restaurants, a hotbed of tiki drinks. So when I was gifted a four-pack of tiki mugs in college, it was really fulfilling my destiny. Overdoing it followed.

That bowl is an authentic kava bowl, from the Marshall Islands, I believe. It's used to mix a mildly hallucinogenic tisane made from kava, a cousin of the pepper plant. It tastes, as my grandfather reported, like dishwater.

Flip thru the photos of the GROG days of Summer Link (top one)

Squid's SQULL mug is on page 18 of the 21 photos!

Go Squizz!