Aloha folks! We have a new format for our This Week In Ragnarok news show with a new RO2 CM Maridah! It’ll air before the Tiki Tuesday next week, so stay tuned! We had fun filming it, so we hope you’ll enjoy it. The pics this week are from the amazing Tikiyaki Orchestra’s concert I attended last week. The music was fantastic, especially as it was set inside one of the USA’s last surviving Tiki Bars. The tikiyaki guys were incredibly talented, switching from bongos to guitar to keyboards depending on the song. An absolutely amazing experience. The rest of … Continue reading Tiki Tuesday Question Lounge for 9/16

Aloha folks! This is the place to ask questions for our weekly Tiki Tuesday livestream. This show airs at 3pm on Tuesdays, so you can catch it at our twitch page live and later when it gets archived on youtube. For this week’s album: American Graffiti Revisited. Modern garage/surf bands play some great covers from the original soundtrack. For this week’s cocktail: The Tom Collins Cheers! Continue reading Tiki Tuesday Question Lounge for 9/9

Welcome folks, this is the thread to ask questions for our next Tiki Tuesday liveshow, at 3pm on the 26th. Please check previous threads to see if the question you have has been answered by us already. A QUESTION for you all: what is your favorite comedy movie of the 1980s? Oahu was a fantastic place to visit and I’ll share some videos and pictures during the live show. Some replica tikis based on the originals kept at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu Bailey’s: The biggest repository of vintage Hawaiian shirts I’ve ever seen. Some pictures from the Tikis, a … Continue reading Tiki Tuesday Question Lounge for 8/26

Hoi there Chummers! The week this 8/12 Question Lounge airs, I’ll be out of the office but please ask your questions in the attached thread anywho. The subject of this week’s Tiki History is the La Mariana Sailing Club. Oahu’s last surviving vintage Tiki bar, it’s a literal storehouse of vintage Retro-Polynesian (Retronesian) ephemera. When the big restaurants like Trader Vics and Don the Beachcomber closed, La Mariana acquired their decor. I’ll bring back photos! For the album of the week, this is a vintage album of Hawaiian songs For the week’s recipe: A simple blended whiskey cocktail, Hawaiian-style. Continue reading Tiki Tuesday Question Lounge for 8/12

I’ve talked about “Trader Vic” Bergeron before, but since I just visited San Francisco I thought I’d include a little bit of information about one of the key restaurants during the heyday of Tiki: Trader Vic’s San Francisco. Vic’s first restaurant was in the Bay area and he devotes two chapters to his “Home Port” of San Franciso and he praises the town as a gateway for international food culture into the US. SAN FRANCISCO, the end of a cook’s tour, where everyone seems to be interested in food and its preparation. This probably accounts for the hundreds of restaurants … Continue reading Tiki Tuesday Question Lounge for 7/29

Aloha everyone! This is the place to ask questions for Campitor and I to answer during our Tiki Tuesday live show taking place at 3pm on Tuesdays. Please check out previous threads to make sure that you aren’t asking a question that we’ve already covered. The recipe of the week: From Gekkeikan Sake’s website: Kyoto Breeze 2 parts Gekkeikan Sake ½ part cranberry juice 1 part fresh grapefruit juice Peel from ¼ a grapefruit Peel from ½ a lemon 1 bar spoon sugar Muddle the grapefruit peel, lemon peel and sugar in a mixing glass. Add Gekkeikan Sake, grapefruit juice … Continue reading Tiki Tuesday Question Lounge for 7/22

Ask questions about the game or this week’s subject in the thread and I’ll be answering them in next week’s Thunderbirds Tuesday live show! Thunderbirds are GO! A while ago I’d already posted up something about my favorite puppet based disaster rescue show but this is a more thought out post for the blog! Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation tv show The Thunderbirds was something that I watched a little of as a kid, though I hadn’t watched a lot of the show itself, I’ll never forget the bombastic opening credits. Growing up in Los Angeles and making monthly trips to the … Continue reading Thunderbirds Tuesday Question Lounge 7/15

Hello and welcome to this week’s exotic lounge, set within the bustling city of Tokyo. ASK ME ANYTHING ABOUT JAPAN TRAVEL/CULTURE/ETC! Not necessarily my favorite city in Japan, but alliteration is key here at Tiki Tuesday. Tokyo is a crowded, crowded megalopolis in the middle of a very populous country. It’s been the nexus for modern Japanese culture, technology and music since it evolved from a small village set in a swamp into the capital of Japan. Through the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the power of the Emperor in Kyoto diminished and Edo grew in importance. Today, Tokyo is … Continue reading Tokyo Tuesday Question Lounge for July 1st