Gordon Lee

Here's the last of my cemetary pics - still more Chickamauga photos to come!


Gordon Lee

Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006

Chickamauga Cemetary

Another from the cemetary in Chickamauga.


Chickamauga Cemetary
Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006

Henderson

A couple more photos from the cemetary in Chickamauga.



Photography by Tiki Chris © 2006

Semper Fidelis

Here's another Chickaphoto - this one from the cemetary.


Semper Fidelis
Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006

Leave your title - drive your car

One more pic from my trip to Chicky.


Leave your title - drive your car
Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006

Cloud Springs Road

Here's another pic from my recent trip to Chickamauga.


Cloud Springs Road
Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006

Fundamentalist, Florist

Here's the first of many photos from my recent trip to Chickamauga.
























Fundamentalist, Florist
Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006

Chickamauga Week in Review (Friday December 29, 2006)

I'm heading back to London later today. I'll be glad to sleep in my own bed and to get back my daily routine (and to burn off some of these holiday pounds). However, I will be sad to leave Chickamauga. I've been fortunate to spent some quality time with my family and with old friends. Also, this visit has provided me (and Emiana) with an opportunity to take plenty of photos of the area - I should get around to posting some of the pics early in '07.

I've had a blast roaming around but may have offended a local with some my observations! I can only say that I love this corner of the world and wish I could visit it more often.

Not much else happening on my blogs this week, aside from a week's worth of ontoLondon's Daily Photos, a cool photographic season's greeting from Shanghai at ontoTravel, and mucho info pertaining to Rapa Nui at Rapa Nui News.

Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

Have a great weekend and a Happy New Year,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.

ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Daily Photo - And a partridge in a peartree?
Daily Photo - Xmas Bazaar
Happy Christmas from ontoLondon
Daily Photo - Santa's day off
Daily Photo - We Three King
Daily Photo - Fairy Lights
Daily Photo - December night at Exmouth Market


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Merry Christmas from Shanghai


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
More "Night at the Museum" articles
Disneyesque moai sets "hokey" tone at Kauai garden...
Trip to Chile offers Rapa Nui's "remote wonders"
Rapa Nui among New7Wonders' current list of finali...
Crab found near Rapa Nui warrants new family desig...
Moai in peril
More "Night at the Museum" articles
Blog post about the Rongorongo
French electricity company compares world to Rapa ...
School project's toy bear visited Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui as metaphor for planet


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Here comes Santa Claus
Overheard at the Chickamauga Post Office
Chickamauga Wars (1776-1794)

Chickamauga Wars (1776-1794)

Playing around on Wikipedia, I came across this article about the Chickamauga Wars. I had no idea.

Overheard at the Chickamauga Post Office

More about my visit to my hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia. Here's another report - this one's a bit of dialogue overheard at the local post office:

Customer: My mailbox was bashed in last night for the fourth time in three years. I was just wondering if you had any packages for me.

The customer gives his name and address to the postal worker, who leaves and then returns empty handed.

Postal Worker: Sorry we don't have anything for you. Have you thought about getting a Post Office Box?

Customer: Yeah, we thought about it [The customer pauses to shake his head in dismay before continuing] ... It's bad out there!

Here comes Santa Claus

Caption reads: "Kris Kringle observing an especially nice child."

No place like home for the holidays (Friday December 22, 2006)

This Weekly Update is coming to y'all from sunny Chickamauga, Georgia. I'm in town visiting the family for Christmas. It's been a long time. Things, such as cowboy crusaders and hippy-dippy pizza joints seemingly catering to them, are really throwing me for a loop. Anyway, I'm taking plenty of photos, but I won't be able to upload them until I'm back in London in early January.

However, now that ontoLondon's Weekly Photo has become ontoLondon's Daily Photo, I'll be sure not to get homesick for my life across the pond.

In other news ...

Check out this supersonic holiday greeting from architect/graphic artist Michael Murphy, and enjoy these blog posts by Emiana (1950's Napoli and London's beginning to look a lot like Christmas) and a holiday treat from Chive Talk.

Of course, there's much more where that came from. So, please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas and a great weekend,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.

ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Which way to Brick Lane?
How was the Frost Fair?
Viet Hoa: authentic Vietnamese food in Hoxton
How was the Pogues concert?
ontoLondon Weekly Photo to be Daily Photo!
Londonist post sums up "radioactive saga"
Legendary record shop to close - scavengers take n...
London's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Daily Photo - Crib Service at Our Most Holy Redeem...
Daily Photo - Spitalfields Nativity


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Underwater wedding in Saipan
Baggage Allowances on Flights (Delta Airlines)
How early is too early at Heathrow?
No snow for Europe
1950's Napoli


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
More about Kiwa hirsuta, the furry crab
Rapa Nui on top of list for around-the-world dance...
Trip to Rapa Nui yields more questions than answer...
Book review of Collapse by Jared Diamond
Pan American trip's final stop is Rapa Nui
Rapanui students to take Entrance Exams on own soi...
Rapa Nui among world's most remote destinations
Tiki Farm to market "Mr. Rapa Nui Mini Grills"
North Carolina resident recollects journey to Rapa...
"Museum" movie features moai
Boone County, KY library "Chick Pick" set in Rapa ...


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Talking about blogs over a few Mai Tais at Mahiki
Dreaming of a pink Christmas?
Have yourself a Supersonic Christmas
It's not quite the Christmas Special you remember,...
Saddle up for Jesus
Mellowing out with the kids
Happy holidays, you chive turkey!

Happy holidays, you chive turkey!

Happy Holidays!
From Our Table to Yours
Chive Talk
Wednesday, December 20, 2006












The holiday season is a spectacular time to experiment with chives.

Click here for complete post.

Mellowing out with the kids

More about my first full day back in Chickamauga, Georgia. Here's another weirdness report:

Mellow Mushroom, a pizza franchise with 45 locations in five states, recently opened a restaurant in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. I remember Mellow Mushroom from when I was a student at the University of Georgia in Athens. Back then (early Nineties), the franchise only had a few locations: the one in Athens and however many else in Atlanta. The restaurants were known for their gratuitously cheesy pizza, a wide selection of beer, and a dippy-hippy/psychedelic theme featuring all sorts of wink-wink nudge-nudgery to tripping and to smoking pot. For example, their logo was (and still is) a little laid back cartoon mushroom dude on a tie-dyed background.

Fine. Whatever. Brilliant idea for a college town like Athens and, presumably, for their first few locations in Atlanta. So what? Well, what's interesting to me is that my dear old mom has been raving to me on the phone about Mellow Mushroom since it opened. Not that she's been, she's just been hearing a lot about it at the baptist church.

Mom, who just turned seventy, lives in Chickamauga, Georgia - a small town about 20 minutes drive from Chattanooga. Hardly ever going out, her main contact to culture these days is her church where, apparently, the opening of Mellow Mushroom has been all the buzz. In fact, for the pastor's birthday, the congregation gave him a gift certificate to Mellow Mushroom. Mellow Mushroom's appeal to these folks is beyond me. Most of the people at the church don't drink or smoke dope or eat magic mushrooms, and there are plenty of other pizza places between Chickamauga and downtown Chattanooga.

Anyway, Mom mentioned Mellow Mushroom again last night, and I took her there for dinner (in an effort to get it out of the way early so I could focus the rest of my time on down home cooking and BBQ). We ordered a large pie with onions, which was adequate, but having lived in New York and New Jersey, my high pizza standard was not met. Mellow Mushroom's interior exuded the hippy-dippiness I remembered from the nineties and had a fairly impression selection of beer. However, the dining area was packed with families, whom I suspect listen to country radio, regularly attend church, and don't drink or take psychedelics at all. I'm guessing that these parents wouldn't want their children exposed to drug culture, but roughly half the people in the restaurant were between the ages of six and ten. I only saw two people (a couple of businessmen at the bar) drinking beer. I imagine that, come Friday and Saturday night, a different crowd hangs at Mellow Mushroom, but it just seemed so odd to see family time happening in this setting. Were the patrons oblivious to the drug culture overtones?

I should mention that Mellow Mushroom is in close proximity to the local aquarium and other all-ages tourist attractions. Still, there are plenty of dining options nearby. Maybe I'm being a prude by making such a big deal about Mellow Mushroom's clientele ... and, believe me, I'm all for a mellower baptist church. It's just that what I viewed last night just seemed so incongruous to me.

Saddle up for Jesus

Okay. Today's my first full day back in Chickamauga, Georgia. Here's a weirdness report:

Waiting in traffic this afternoon, I noticed a "Cowboy Church" sticker on the back of an SUV. Back at the ranch, I did a Google search and found cowboychurch.net, a website for a unique group of ministers who call themselves "Cowboys" and reach out to "farmers, ranchers, cowboys, horsemen, rodeo contestants, and their families."

The site's purpose is twofold: "to provide you with the resources to find one of these ministries and when they are holding a church service, a roping or an event," and "to promote the work that ministries are doing to help people in agriculture, specifically the cowboy, obtain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."


















Wow.

It's not quite the Christmas Special you remember, Charile Brown

It's the most lucrative Christmas ever, Charlie Brown:



Charlie Brown Kwanza:



Pulp Christmas:



Okay, okay! Here's the original:

Have yourself a Supersonic Christmas

Image by architect/graphic artist Michael Murphy © 2006

Click here to see more of Michael's Supersonic series.

Dreaming of a pink Christmas?

Apparently lots of folks on Flickr are!

Put on your darkest sunglasses (to combat the glare!) and click here to see what i mean.

Naughty Winter Wonderland
Photograph by Emiana © 2006
ontoLondon Weekly Photo #29






Tis the Season
Photograph by Tiki Chris © 2006
ontoLondon Weekly Photo #30






Thanks to Plep for directing me to Flickr's Pink Christmas photo group.

Happy holidays!

Talking about blogs over a few Mai Tais at Mahiki

Earlier this month, I met up with a few fellow bloggers - MrBaliHai (who arranged the meet-up), The Cartoonist, and Plep - for drinks at Mahiki. Below are some photos from the night as well as a link to MrBaliHai's post about our evening.

London 2006: Tiki
Posted by MrBaliHai
Eye of the Goof
December 10, 2006 04:54 AM





















Photography by MrBaliHai © 2006

Click here for MrBaliHai's complete post.

Artsy fartsy week in review (Friday December 15, 2006)

Despite a week's worth of zipping through the Tate Modern, wedging my way through the National Gallery, and snapping about at Sartorial Contemporary Art, I still managed to post a new Artist Profile (John Puglisi!) and to highlight a gorgeous tiki drinks menu.

I even read a very entertaining - and educational - book, took some very silly pictures of my very silly cat, reminisced about a great evening gawking at rednecks, and lots lots lots lots lots lots more.

Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

Have a great weekend,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.

ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Liquid doughnut in a can
Naughty Santa sacked from Harrods
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee at the Tate Modern
How was the Velasquez exhibition?
Wave and pay with Barclays
Mandatory reading for London's expat community!
Beyond Covent Garden

Weekly Photo (14 December 2006)
http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/2006/12/frost-fair-2006-15-17-december.html


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Applying TSA's 3-1-1 to holiday travel
Extended stay in the UK? Read this book!


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
More New7Wonders articles
New type of furry crab found near Rapanui
"Monolithic" pop culture references #27
More about the furry crab
More Yeti Crab articles
"Monolithic" pop culture references #28
http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/2006/12/pinochet-related-tale-mentions-rapa-nui.html
http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/2006/12/entel-pcs-provides-service-to-rapa-nui.html


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Another dubious web stat
Mahiki menu illustration
London press lovin' the Polynesian Pop
Electric Cowboy revisited
Artist Profile: John Puglisi
Photos from Artistic Vandals II
Our goofy cat
http://tikichris.blogspot.com/2006/12/londons-tiki-bar-wars.html

London's tiki bar wars?

Yesterday's edition of thelondonpaper had a little blurb on page 13 about the opening of Mahiki putting "the wind up the management of London's ... Trader Vic's." According to the article, Trader Vic's has hired "Gordon Ramsay's PR company, Sauce Communications, to remind the world of its existence."

What's all this mean for tiki enthusiasts looking for a decent Mai Tai in an evocative setting? I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

Our goofy cat

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side and the water in the human's cup is always tastier than the water in the cat's bowl. Gotta love the Ulimeister.

Photos from Artistic Vandals II

Click here to view photos taken at the opening of Artistic Vandals II at London's Sartorial Contemporary Art.














Photography by Tiki Chris © 2006
Juxtapoz
Tuesday December 12, 2006

Artist Profile: John Puglisi

Artist Profile: John Puglisi





























I recently came across the work of John Puglisi while flipping through the pages of the October 2006 issue of Juxtapoz, where an ad for the industrial POP show at lineage gallery in Philadelphia featured an image of his painting, The End of Asbury Park, with its downtrodden little fellow ambling in front of Asbury Park's iconic Palace Fun House (now demolished for condos) and the Palace's next door neighbor, the adult cinema (also demolished).











As a former resident of the Jersey Shore, who has spent plenty of time in Asbury Park, the image immediately grabbed my attention. Puglisi, had nailed it: the faded glory, the eerie openness, the glorious light.

Whereas the past few artists I've profiled have either been inspired by the "exotic" - such as Sam Gambino and Chongolio - or have inspired me based upon my own ideas of what's exotic - such as Rhys Hall and Eruera Ropiha - this month's Artist Profile is more in line with the first one I wrote about New Jersey artist Ray Sammak. Like Ray, John Puglisi grew up in northern New Jersey. Although John's work in the animation and film industries (credits include Planet of the Apes, The Lion King, and Fifty First Dates) now keeps him in California much of the time, he still considers NJ his "home" and has recently begun exploring his Jersey roots through his art.

Puglisi's vision of New Jersey is at once nostalgic and foreboding and captures the ironic majesty of the Garden State's industrial landscape. If you've ever even half-considered the Turnpike or the Parkway to be remotely beautiful or oddly comforting, Puglisi's work is for you. It's certainly for me.


























Visit www.johnpuglisi.com and tell him Tiki Chris says thanks(!) for letting me use his images on this blog!

Electric Cowboy revisited

I'm heading to my hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia for the holidays, which has me reminiscing about my last time there in the spring of 2006, just before my move back to London from New Jersey.

One night, a couple of ole buddies took me out for a night on the town in nearby Chattanooga, Tennessee. Our last stop that night was to an incredibly popular and totally insane night club called the Electric Cowboy. We were totally fish out of water in this joint but had a rip-roarin' good time nonetheless.

Luckily, I had my camera to capture the madness. Enjoy.

London press lovin' the Polynesian Pop

With the opening of Mahiki, the big boys of London press seem to be going kuku for Polynesian Pop!

Clubland goes back to basics
Mahiki is at 1 Dover Street, W1, 020 7493 9529
thelondonpaper
Posted 23 November 2006, 17:52









Mahiki is a Tiki bar, a kind of kitsch Polynesian theme bar popular in the States for years, but never really explored in Britain.

Click here for complete article.

Tiki bar revival
Time Out hoicks up its hula and embraces the trend for all things South Pacific
Time Out
Wednesday November 22, 2006














Now, it seems the rise in rum drinking is putting tiki back on the radar ...

Click here for complete article.

Mahiki menu illustration

Just in case you haven't heard, there's a new tiki bar in London - Mahiki. And, like the great tiki drinks establishments of yore, Mahiki has a beautifully illustrated drinks menu. The artwork for the menu (as well as the branding and a range of promotional postcards) is the work of "low brow tiki, hot rod artist" Tiki Racer.

Have a look at the menu ...


... and the logo, which Tiki Racer describes as a "mix of traditional tiki and Mayfair class."








Click here to visit the Tiki Racer website.

Another dubious web stat

Yet again, I was checking my web stats and was shocked to discover how some folks come across this blog. Apparently, the top search result on Google for the term "scare my wife" is a post by yours truly (click here to view). Why would someone search Google for "scare my wife?" Kinda creepy. I don't know which is worse, being the top search result for "scare my wife" or for "Halloween Cannibal?!?"

Boy, those 31 Days of Halloween Madness appear to be having some lasting effect.

Tis the week in review (Friday December 8, 2006)

This week's highlights include:

- Lots of great holiday gift ideas on the Tiki Chris blog,

- A write-up about my local pie and mash and the latest Weekly Photo at ontoLondon,

- Great holiday air travel advice at ontoTravel,

- And, of course, much, much more!

Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

Have a great weekend,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.


ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Local Pie and Mash
Very ... Nearly ... Almost ... #2
Christmas Food Festival at Whitecross Street Marke...
Box Bears
Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to be lit 7 Decemb...
How was the Morricone concert?
Artistic Vandals II at Sartorial Contemporary Art
Weekly Photo (7 December 2006)


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
70,000 year old shrine found in Botswana
Emiana's Paris weekend
Military seizes control of government in Fiji
WePlanYourTrip gift certificates
More about the coup in Fiji
What (not) to carry-on your flight this holiday se...
Farting passenger causes emergency landing


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
"Monolithic" pop culture references #26
Ersatz moai at ITU conference
Letter questions rat theory
Moai damaged and new penalty system
New book invents Rapanui legend of "Death-in-the-W...
Santa Fe's El Museo Cultural to host Rapa Nui film...
Taiwan forum for language group that includes Rapa...
More New7Wonders articles
"Monolithic" pop culture references #25
Foto America festival in Rapa Nui
More New7Wonders articles
Auckland Museum tells of Polynesian navigation
Rapa Nui among treasured destinations in peril


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Easter Island travelogue by Tiki Chris
Give the gift of delicious 100% Hawaiian Coffee!
TaoMassage gift certificates
Tiki Bar TV episode 23: Red Handed
WePlanYourTrip gift certificates
Bespoke bears in London
Tiki Magazine = brilliant Christmas gift!

Tiki Magazine = brilliant Christmas gift!

Just in time for the holidays ...

Tiki Magazine is a quarterly-published, glossy-cover magazine, with a focus on Tiki, Polynesian Pop, Hawaiiana and the Island Lifestyle. Each issue includes outstanding art and photography, information on events, history and pop culture, new styles of tropical clothing and decor, Tiki carvings and mugs, tasty cocktail recipes, music, Tiki bars and restaurants, Tiki pioneers and much, much more. The music section highlights Exotica, Hawaiian, Lounge, Rockabilly and Surf, featuring current bands as well as honoring legends of the past.














A subscription (or some back issues if they're not sold out!) would make a great gift this holiday season.

Click here to visit the Tiki Magazine website and to purchase subscriptions and back issues.

Bespoke bears in London

Just in time for the holidays ...

















At the Clerkenwell Green Association's recent Made in Clerkenwell event, I met Sharon McCormack and her little creations - the Box Bears, which seem like sweet gifts to consider for newborns and collectors.

Click here to read more at ontoLondon or visit BoxBears.co.uk for more details and more photos

WePlanYourTrip gift certificates

Just in time for the holidays ...

WePlanYourTrip Gift Certificates! The perfect gift for the person who has everything.

Give the gift of WePlanYourTrip's unique services to loved ones, parents, children, friends, employees, clients or business associates.

Services include:

- Custom Itineraries
- Destination Recommendations, and
- General Travel Research












Click here to visit WePlanYourTrip online.
Click here to go to the online order form to purchase your Gift Certificate.

Tiki Bar TV episode 23: Red Handed

Click here to view all the Tiki Bar TV episodes.

TaoMassage gift certificates

Just in time for the holidays ...

TaoMassage gift certificates are a great, easy and much appreciated gift idea! Beautifully packaged, TaoMassage gift certificates may be sent directly to recipient or directly to you! Easy! Affordable! Thoughtful and much appreciated by the receiver!









Located in Ocean Township, New Jersey, TaoMassage is the Jersey Shore's only provider of Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy, of which I am a huge fan (click here for my rave review). In fact, if I were still living at the Shore, I'd be hinting heavily for one of these certificates to find its way to my Christmas stocking.



















Click here for more details about TaoMassage gift certificates.
Click here to learn more about Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy.
Click here to read more raves about TaoMassage.

Give the gift of delicious 100% Hawaiian Coffee!

Just in time for the holidays ...

I've been a huge fan of Hawaiian coffee since my first sip and have found LBD Coffee of Hawai'i to offer some of the best tasting coffee I've ever brewed! LBD's Organic 100% Kona Fancy is to die for!



And if the prospect of brewing the perfect cup of coffee isn't incentive enough, from now until January 1, 2007, LBD is offering a free bottle of lilikoi butter with every five pounds of coffee ordered. This tasty, Hawaiian-made spread for bread, bagels, or crackers "is a wonderful compliment to your warm cup of Hawaiian coffee."

While shopping around on LBD's site, make sure to check out its impressive guide to the Big Island of Hawai'i as well as all their Hawaiian products, such as Kauai Cigar Company Island Prince Cigars.

Easter Island travelogue by Tiki Chris

Just in time for the holidays ...

Written by yours truly and full of color photos by Emiana, The Law of the Island: A Rapa Nui Travelogue is a 22-page travelogue about a recent adventure to Easter Island, where the only thing more enigmatic than the island's mysterious stone statues is the cast of intriguing characters who reside on - or travel across the globe to visit - the most remotely inhabited island in the world.

Click here for more information and to purchase copies.

A week worthy of Easter Island (Friday December 1, 2006)

Did you know that "Cadillac has grown a pair worthy of Easter Island?" If you were a regular reader of Rapa Nui News, you would. I'm not really sure what that quote actually means, but I think the writer was trying to compliment both Cadillac and Easter Island. Anyway, click here for more "monolithic" pop culture references pertaining to Easter Island.

And speaking of Rapa Nui News, all your loved ones would really love to get some RNN logo apparel as gifts this holiday season, wouldn't they? Click here to hook 'em up with the goods.

On the more decidedly "pop" side of Polynesian matters, Nick Camera - publisher of Tiki Magazine - gave me the go ahead to start a blog for his fine publication. It's great to be on board the good ship Tiki Magazine, and I really appreciate the opportunity to help the magazine grow. I also really appreciate Nick's willingness to give my ideas a try and to work with me - especially since he's in San Diego and I'm here in London! Click here to visit Tiki Magazine's blog.

Hey! I know. Why not give the gift of a Tiki Magazine subscription to your other loved ones this holiday season?

Looking for more great gift ideas? Check this post about Chongolio's Flea Market. And should you still be hard-up for gift ideas for the naughty and nice on your list, just wait until next week. I gotta ton of suggestions.

Don't forget to check out the latest Weekly Photo at ontoLondon, as well as my brief review and pics from Turkey Day at Bubba's.

Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

Have a great weekend,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about the four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.

ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
It's Manga Day!
How was Thanksgiving dinner at Bubba's?
Share your Christmas with the Pogues
How was Manga Day?
Now open: Mahiki
Weekly Photo (30 November 2006)

ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Coop's La Carrera adventure


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Tales of reed vessel trip to Rapa Nui thrilled mid...
Moai spotting in Florida
Explora's owner wants to open hotel on Rapa Nui
More New7Wonders articles
"Monolithic" pop culture references #24
Rapa Nui News Logo Apparel


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Help a braddah move to Hawai'i!
If you like Kon-Tiki ...
Show your support for the Rapa Nui News blog
Check out the new Tiki Magazine blog