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They have a few more in their collection than I do..

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Chet Phillips is an illustrator who’s done a fantabulous series of digital tiki paintings. You can order them at his Etsy shop.

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This site even has stencils so you can make your own! I think it’s time for a TR pumpkin carving party! :-)

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Parking Day was a while ago, but I still haven’t posted pics. Now that I have a worspress client on my iPod, I have no excuse to not post!

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After a long hiatus, George made an appearance at Mike’s 35th bday bbq!

Saz made George back in 2003 to preside over the TikiCrawler. Max made the tronix for the fire, and foo did the welding for the frame.

The TikiCrawler was an awesome group project.. We need a new project this year! Also, I need a TikiCrawler to drive around the city. Even hammocks are faster than muni :)

Photo credits: mike and catweasel!

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Da drinky robots are comin to us! :-)

What could be better in life than robots and cocktails? Well, nothing! Roboexotica is the premier cocktail making robot event which happens in Vienna each year. This week it comes to San Francisco. Join us for good music, cocktails, and robots that pour you drinks, insult you, and test your BAC….

Sat. May 10th 8pm-2am
Space, 354 5th St. San Francisco, CA

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If only I had some quarters…

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Check out this gorgeous timelapse that Mike made:

(click play to start) (link to other sizes)

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I was at a recording studio in Oakland for work and this was the very first thing I saw when I walked in (so of course I had to take a picture of it :-)

It took almost 4 hours for a 6min track to be recorded, cut, and mixed. (Being a sound engineer seems to require A LOT of patience…for reasons having nothing to do with the process of recording, cutting, or mixing).

After the track was bounced, we rushed it over to the Paramount for a show with only 5 minutes to spare before it was needed.

We missed most of the show but watched the last 10 minutes from backstage. (more blurry pics here!)

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Oooh…time for a tiki shopping spree! At the Forbidden Island, Alameda’s first and only tiki bar.

On Sunday, September 23rd from 3-7pm, Forbidden Island will once again host Northern California’s largest sale of collectible & vintage tiki, Hawaiiana, rockabilly, and mid-century modern goods. The sale will feature an incredible selection of original art, collectable mugs and décor, vintage aloha & rockabilly clothes, vinyl, furniture, and much more. We’ll also be offering drink specials and a few surprises. Come early for the best selection- it’s guaranteed to be a sell-out event! Don’t miss it!

i would go but i’m trying to shed belongings, not acquire more. i’d be up for sipping a tiki drink at the bar though :-)

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Throw out your Don Ho records! (via boing boing)

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Okay TR crew, given that this year’s themes for the LS party are “tropical, tiki, jungle, safari, pirate, and nautical,” we’d be totally remiss if we didn’t make an appearance in our finest grass skirts.

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Here’s a link to the finished drawing. (and where you can get one too.)

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This comes to me from my friend Dan. Apparently Petropics has a whole line of tiki pet food and toys. Too bad I have no pets of my own to do a taste test. I wonder if zara would be opposed to trying this stuff out?

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I always wanted a service that could send a box of razor blades, a bottle of rum, some cocktail umbrellas, a few pineapples, and a single black sock to me every three months. Finally, Amazon has stepped up to the plate with their Subscribe & Save service. Well, they only have razor blades and a few grocery items right now, but I’m sure they’ll add the rum soon enough.

You get 15% off when you add an item to your Subscribe & Save list, even if you remove the item after a single shipment.

• automatically receive a new shipment of the item in intervals you select–every one, two, three, or six months
• get a discount on our everyday price
• get free shipping on every Subscribe & Save shipment

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What’s summer without a summer read and a little armchair travel. Apparently, this book has it all. Via Drawn…

James Teitelbaum and Santa Monica Press are pleased to announce the June, 2007 release of Tiki Road Trip 2, the follow-up to James Teitelbaum’s hugely successful book, Tiki Road Trip (Santa Monica Press, 2003).

Tiki Road Trip is your best – and only – comprehensive travel guide for those seeking a south seas adventure in the big city, an island escape from the urban jungle, or the location of the nearest metropolitan luau. At 360 pages (compared to 280 in the old edition) and packed with new images, this edition of Tiki Road Trip is a huge leap forward from the previous edition, and is absolutely mandatory summer reading.

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Our neighbors dug a hole in their back yard, and um… roasted a pig in it. I didn’t realize “pig in a blanket” meant acutally wrapping a dead pig in a blanket and then throwing it in a hole in the ground along with some coals and rocks! I brought over a couple pitchers of mai tais, which didn’t last too long!

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.

photo linky!

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Adam Koford is a cartoonist who runs the distributed E-Hobo effort that illustrated the 800 hobo names from John Hodgman’s Areas of My Expertise. He was also selling custom-painted postcards illustrating your own hobo name, and Mikey commissioned a drawing of TikiRobot Raj and his Superdog Zara!

Mikey gave me the art-card yesterday at the Ranch and it totally blew me away! So beautiful and perfect! I love the way Adam captured Zara’s Z-tag, and floppy ears, and my flaming head! Thanks much to both of you!

Links!

• TikiRobot Raj on flickr
• TikiRobot Raj on Adam’s blog, Hobotopia
• Your Hobo Names set on flickr
• The 700 Hobos Project on flickr
• e-hobo.com
  

Also notice the remarkable similarity between TikiRobot Raj and George, who rode atop the TikiCrawler and now resides at the ranch:

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T-girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl is making this table with a pretty ceramic Tiki mosaic! Here is a pic of the work in progress:

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I saw an awesome pickup truck this morning … sorry, no picture. But it was an old school pickup, teal colored with “Tiki Go Go” in fabulous Tiki fonts. It turns out to be Chef Kelley Hawks. The food looks super good, but at $350/person for 5 entrees, I think I’m going to stick with almond butter on a whole wheat english muffin. “A thoughtful gift for new parents or newlyweds” … Neither of those are on the horizon but feel free to buy it for me anyway!

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Link to Robot Makes Tea on CNN

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No…this isn’t an item from the SkyMaul catalog…it’s actually something you can buy right now, today. And I think it’s brilliant!

HOLY TOAST BREAD STAMP

In the beginning…there was bread…. Make that boring bread an inspiration by embossing it before you toast! Our easy-to-use HOLY TOAST stamper always makes a good impression.

Press the stamper into an ordinary slice of bread, toast it, and behold a miracle!

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