Plundering Paradise

Aloha, gang!

Now before anyone gets all in a huff, let us here at TikiTV just convey, we are some of the most enthusiastic proponents of the old Polynesian look, and wish we could turn back the hands of time and bring back old Hawaii as we once knew her to be. But since we can't, we relive the old days in recreating the look as we knew it.

But, we are seeing more and more, a goofy disrespectful slant to all this, to the degree, the gods of old are being insulted and used inappropriately. Let's go through some examples...
The desecration of the gods.
The big problem some have with this, is it relegates a semblance of Ku to a denigrating, insulting position; a seat for the ass of those that will knowingly or unknowingly, insult the gods and therefore many of the peoples of Hawaii. And when it is pointed out to them that this is seen as very insulting to islanders, who revere the ancient gods of Polynesia, still to this day, the denegrators defend and get very angry, saying no one owns the copyright to a public domain design and leave us alone we can do whatever we want, and nothing after all, is sacred. Although it is pointed out Polynesians have no interest in voracious haole laws being applied to their icons, and why don't mainlanders just leave it alone? Put a plastic jesus figure under yer fanny, instead, fer crissakes. Of course, the problem in bringing this kind of thing to the attention of the public, is more publicity for the company that makes slave tikis, (The highest god of old Hawaii is here to serve you! here! Sit on the tiki throne while you get drunk on yer maitais!)

In manys' tiki quest to turn all things tiki, they need "tiki" icons all over the wall. Tikis supporting their tables, tikis used as supports to hold up their bars, tikis at their knees, tikis under their asses.... tikis supporting their bodies on the tiki chair... when will it stop? will it stop? can it be curtailed? Can you imagine a carver in old Hawaii, carving an image of Ku in the form of a chair, so he and his friends can lounge on it?!

What's with the flamed tikis? is this a celebration of the burning of the ki'i back then?

These are sacred Polynesian images. They have no place or business being appropriated and utilized in america. Especially in the manner they are now.

In Ancient Hawaii, bowls supported by ki'i were carved and employed as an insult to the personages of other vanquished leaders. To create and distribute a bench supported in a subservient manner as the Tiki bench shows Ku has been vanquished by the dominant tribe; The rest of america and their fad merchandise machine. We are basically agreeing to this domination and oppression by allowing this to continue. Do we see any backlash here? To what degree do we allow this to devolve? Why do islanders allow their sacred icons to continually be relegated to the lowest insulting level of cheap american commercialism? Silence is acquiescence.

Don't get me wrong. The creation of Polynesian motif bars and restaurants is a fun endeavor, fabulous to hang out at, and one can't help but support or at least appreciate the blood, sweat, toil and tears invested in creating and maintaining a bar or restaurant that is geared for a less than mainstream clientele. And the artistic and inventive drink vessels, when they don't employ the icons or images of the gods of Hawaii, can and are very cool works of art.

But there could be a little more respect extended towards the major "religious" images... the gods of Hawaii that have been and still to this day, are respected and revered as the highest icons of their inner life and ancient culture and tradition.

...stumbled across this web site
wherein they basically created a whole product line based on the image of the Sacred religious revered Gods of Hawaii. (ki'i akua pictures taken at Pu'uhonua o Honaunau, the God images at the one of Hawaii's reverential sites.)



and emailed them, this:

You are using sacred Hawaiian Gods for commercial purposes. This trivialization of revered religious icons of a Polynesian culture, one that, by the hands of foreigners, has suffered too much disrespect and cultural intellectual property rights appropriation for too long. This is never justified. You are continuing this pernicious trend and it is reprehensible.

What if... you had this instead, on your "about us" page, the following?

The Golf Godz began as a resort lifestyle t-shirt company. We sell to stores from Tortola to the Vatican to Salt lake City Utah, (the tabernacle). One afternoon during an Off*Duty board meeting at the beach while killing black cats, we discussed the idea of jesus and pope-heads on shirts. Saint-heads we think are hip and have the ability to portray a definite ATTITUDE! Originally we thought that we would concentrate on our pious bible belt markets for this concept. Jim, our artist, came up with some great drawings and as soon as I saw the religious figures (the jesus holding a golf bag, the virgin mary whackin an angel with a golf club, jesus crucified on a flagstick...) I said, "Stick a tee in his ear and 2 golf balls in that guy's pockets!" From there a line of 11 christian religious guys was developed to playfully "roast in hell" ourselves as golfers. I hope that you find these "one liners" sacriligeously, disrespectfully humorous and can relate to the "Attitude of The Golf Godz". (If so, I pity you. But send us money anyway. If yer dimwitted enough to exhibit such thoughtlessness toward a culture other than your own, you should be parted from your money.) * Thank you for taking time to view our website. Come join us at the beach when you feel ethnocentricÑbut for now let us send you, or perhaps more importantly your Sandbagger friends or even still, enemies, a shirt, cap, nun's habit or towel. It may just become a favorite! Tee it Up, genuflect and keep it in the short grass and the long pews! * Moony Jones TGIF

anyone who feels this, to any degree, is not pono, email them and tellem; no shame, no shame!

Haoles, foreigners, tourists, whatever ya wanna callem, many of them are seen trodding upon heiau, removing or moving pohaku, leaving things on the heiau, crossing the kapu line and entering the sacred enclosure at heiau all over Oahu as well as the FtDerussy Memorial for fallen maoli warriors. I was once doing a shoot at Puuhonua o Honaunau and these german tourists actually removed the fence enclosure of the Hale o Keawe temple and entered so they could get a picture of themselves next to the ki'i. I roundly berated them and told them to expect well... don't remember exactly what I said, but implied it is extremely bad luck to commit such a disrespectful damaging trespass and possibly ill fortune will befall these cretins.

call it what ya want: I say it is thoughtless, stems from a lack of education,a lack of breeding. A lack of thinking, learning, a simpleminded lemming reaction, jumping on the bandwagon of the idiot masses. These louts, inured to the sensitivity required while visiting other cultures, live in a society that unfortunately, continually believes nothing is sacred. anything is game for ridicule, exploitation, for commercialization. So; they say to themselves; Since I see goofy looking tikis in party supply centers and plastic tikis available in the dollar stores nationwide, and I see the sacred godhead of Polynesia on sportswear swinging gold clubs, and others reinforce that it's ok to challenge, well this means I have no need to keep my distance, I can walk all over heiau, litter on sacred ground, make childish rude comments when I am exposed to the ancient carved gods of Polynesia when visiting the Bishop Museum...

Not only do many NOT exhibit a little respect, they display belligerence, antagonism and they argue for their right to be an ay-hole. And in front of their impressionable children. When they are told; "kapu; stay on the other side of the chain. stay away from the ki'i. This area is kapu!" They don't back up, Instead, they argue: "Hey. We're just looking." What kinda example do they offer others? what kind of a jerk are they teaching their kids to grow up to be?! What diminished, corrupt form of a 'man' are they telling the world they have grown into? What is the lesson? "My offspring can grow up to do whatever they damn well please and show disrespect toward other cultures and fight with the representatives of the foreign cultures and 'religious icons' ".

vive la ugly americain

Nope. I say; some things are sacred and should be treated as such. And supposedly, mature thinking adults should show respect. I can't see how some feel comfortable belittling the things held in highest regard by a society and culture far removed from their own, that has been beaten down for so long by foreigners. When will they acheive satisfaction in their perniciously rapacious wanton ways?! How can they sleep with themselves?

just as the highest deities (Jesus, Mary, the concept of their God... and the images of jesus on the cross...) in christianity are sacred to many americans... (THEY call them sacred, so I can respect that. ) just so; Ku, Kane, Kanaloa, Lono, Hina, Pele... and others, all are sacred to many Hawaiians, ancient and modern. you see: "sacred" is defined as worthy of religious veneration... entitled to reverence and respect.

Jamba Juice has a line of silkscreened tees that feature a stylized tiki as its icon/logo. I have seen it when I was jonesin' fer an overpriced smoothie. and surprisingly, I haveta admit, it was not too expensive and hit da spot. But i will protest to them of the point; Saw the tikis on the cups. Typical stuff they create for the tourons; fake 60's hawaiian style flower icons, their concession to a tapa design, and a "tiki". this standard image they use has too many of the attributes of Ku to be used as decor. many don't like to see this. There are "grumblings" in the 'underground' soon to call for a major push for ho'oponopono.

The jamba juice tiki, (and of course, if it's a copy of a Hawaiian diety, it is not a tiki) is a graphic version of a war god. Thus: What affiliation are they implying to the ancient art and culture of Hawaiian war? Why would they put a war god on a t shirt or cup? Why not jesus?! or the anthropomorphic representation of the christian almighty god? some dude with long white hair, beard, flowing robes, sittin on a throne handing out harps to miniangels fluttering by...

You can thank the american fad machine for "tiki pop culture" or "polynesian pop" for the above.

Among many other things, it has denegrated "tiki" to a trivial, flippant, decor motif, attitude projecting graphic well suited for to be emblazoned on most any product that can and will be swallowed by american consumers. Just another example of polynesian culture being repackaged by mainlanders for mainlanders. too bad. so sad.

But hey! You can get a plastic Jesus head bobber toy for your dashboard!

yes. we alllllll know of this exact citation as a frequent rebuttal to the 'stop using "tikis" stance'. Ever since archie came out with these "christian products". This is yer typical example we see that shows contemporary society believes "nothing is sacred. Everything is fair game."

....also, there is religion, and then, there is religion; Contemporary american religion is a far cry from ancient/contemporary Polynesian cultural philosophy/relgion.

It is nigh impossible to synopsize the difference in one small paragraph, but...

Some have the view that Christianity in general is crystallized, dogmatic, overly structured, separate from daily life. Polynesian 'religion" is intrinsically intertwined with each and every aspect of daily life and related to respect and connection to every living thing, the appreciation for the aina and nature in general as being the source of life, and being manifestations of the gods.

ok, granted. This being america, we are 'free' to do most anything, and mostly we do, especially if it stretches the bounds of good taste. After all, we want to challenge and be "edgy". Don't we. And america wants to make a buck. all the better if the subject is in the crosshairs of american pop culture.

Personally I don't see the point in challenging "religious" aspects of Polynesian cultures that have existed for hundreds of years only to be usurped, denegrated and nearly destroyed by foreigners, and then, to have insult added to injury by mockery, challenge, and thoughtless, blatant commercialisation.

I believe many things should remain sacred. Respected. Untouched by the profane. A societal structure that allows for this complete breakdown, is one with a corrupt moral fabric and decayed spiritual constitution and is bound to witness its own disintegration and fall. Besides, I myself, just feel better inside, respecting some things. Of course, others will never have that experience, and more's the pity.

The perception of Hawaii being just a source of amusement to use and then toss away literally and figuratively, has gotta stop.

I know what you mean, Kimo. Short story about a guy who is my husband's co worker. I see him very occasionally at company picnics and such. He and his wife went on their honeymoon to O'ahu. I spoke to him about having respect for the land and told him about Kanaka Maoli and tried to educate him before they went so he wouldn't be another ignorant haole tourist taking advantage.

Upon coming back from his honeymoon, he made a very upsetting comment: "F**** the culture, all I care about is the beach"... among other things like, "Oh if it weren't for America they'd still be eating coconuts and running around naked, they should quit whinning" I almost hurt this man on the spot. My husband is constantly trying to switch crews to not be around him because he doesn't want to insult *or worse* this guy and get fired. As you know mainland attitudes can really suck and it's hard being around so many with so little respect. I'm not exactly sure how to deal with this guy, it bothers me to no end.

I thought about printing up your post from the other day, the "How Kanaka Maoli feel about the overthrow" and giving it to him to read or maybe having my husband put it up somewhere at work.... Aloha!
L.K., Southern California

...and mahalo to You, L.K.. Thanks for sharing.

So; the possibility of a revered icon of our Hawaii may soon get the dreaded "Hollywood treatment"; to be made just another cartoon-ish character, his exploits or what the screenwriter and producers THINK the amerikan public want to see as his exploits, may end up on the silver screen. Along with the accompanying merchandising, degredation and trivialization of a, well "sacred icon" of the people of Hawaii. This may happen whether he or his lineage likes it or not. Whether the land and people who own the cultural proprietary rights to this man and his image and his story like it or not. Whether or not the people closest to this iconic historical figure and who know and respect it the most, like it or not.

Was watching Keala Kelly talk last nite on Olelo and she mentioned the screenwriter doing this story went back to Hollywood and possibly it maybe was Don Brown (Hawaii reel Stories) that had footage of the guy actually telling the execs; "Oh yea. i have alotta interest, support, and enthusiasm on this project from Hawaii." which is a big lie! He lied to the people in that room. Keala and Haunani Trask points out; "Yea but that was california" in other words of course they lie about something like that to get what they want... they will do this . That is california. And anyone in Cali will believe. But they come here and they will NOT see any suppoort of a project of this nature.

The trivialization and commodification of the amerikan merchandising machine knows no limitations or bounds. Amerika has done it with "tiki", "Hula", "Luau" and now are going after another major aspect of a land they just can't seem to leave alone.

Disney is planning on offering tours of Hawaii's wilderness. Possibly with costumed characters. called: escape to paradise. Now, question remains: How can WE escape the continual, further commercialisation and desecration in our para

Saw another product in a store the other day. a hula girl duster. here's the problem I have with things like this: You use it by grabbing the long plastic hula girl body, (she is a white skinned girl... clothed with a bathing suit top and no legs to get in the way of dusting. Her skirt, of course, as acts as the duster. It is a full head of synthetic strings.) Grab a hula girl and clean your house with it?! Jeez I think it is obvious, the problem one would have with this. The hula, as with the other things mentioned here, is a revered aspect of our island culture, replete with sacred venerated chants, genealogy and creation stories of the Hawaiian people. It is not a coochiecoochie doll or a plastic toy designed for removing dirt off yer modern appliances. The contemporary overabundance of false hula girl representations posed in fake stances by mainland artists notwithstanding, this is not appropriate. Just as relegating the image of the gods to bottle openers, drink holders and even bar stools that one may place their butts upon... Next!

Too many mass merchandise stores are really going whole hog on alll the tackytiki junkalunk stuffs. They buy each and every cheap plastic tiki party favor decor thing they can find. Looks like a thrift store junk pile. a joke. Unfortunate.

But I was no immune to the attraction. I make this disclaimer in anticipation of the inevitable: "Hey whats this guy doin! What a freekin hypocrite! He usta sell this stuff." No, I represented Hawaiian goods. When the kookytikitacky thing started taking over, I thought things were getting outta hand. When "cartoon plastic tiki" tsunami swept the nation, when the bigbox home improvement shops started selling "tikis" with carved clover leaves in their foreheads, or Japanese kanji characters, or tikis holding pineapples... complete with fake legends and promises that these tikis guarantee your guests good luck and fortune... one must back up a bit and take another look. (plus, through the decades, as a student of ancient and contemporary Polynesian culture, you start to 'grow up" a bit, in your perception)

I sold those plastic tikis for decor for a while when i specialised in trying to get wider representation for local smaller aloha shirt maufacturers and independent carvers and their offerings. Something didn't set right inside, my selling the gods of Hawaii. But the masses were looking for this, so i figured it may be a draw to bring them to more authentic less secular works of "art". But after all we learn, it just doesn't feel pono anymore.

Many kanaka maoli really would like people to "get" that representations of King Kamehameha's personal god of war, was (and is) used for a purpose and should not be replicated as a plastic decor figure. So they buy the 5 dollar trinket. take it home. put it on their mantle. Wot!? does that mean the person is, back home, preparing for ancient Polynesian war? Or that they are affiliated with King Kamehameha? It's like using/appropriating/abusing ancient high level heraldry and saying it is yours. It's like alotta other scenarios and similies I can't think up before coffee.

Watching Magnum P.I. the other day. Episode: Kapu Where he gets taken to a primitive island untouched by foreigners... Friend of mine reminded me he had a part in it. Was the one teaching Magnum how to cast the net. It shows Magnum as a prototypical haole; argumentative, intolerant, loud, violent, aggressive, pushy, impatient spoiled brat, . Unappreciative of their assistance, food and care in bringing him back to a healthy condition. Not cognizant of being a 'guest' in another's land. Typical mainlander. and he doesn't kokua in the chores around the place. and he steals an outrigger canoe. what a creep. Running up and grabbing a wahine's arm like that. He would have been beat up in real life. too bad. Ah well... if they didn't convey strife, if he was mellow and acted to them and in general in the village "with aloha", it wouldn't make for dramatic TV...

Reminds me a while ago, mention was made of general queries re; magnum locations on oahu and the general response is many here don't know the King Kamehameha club, or for that matter, many other magnum or even hawaii 5-0 locations. (don't know and don't care.) This reinforces that these shows are created here, yes, but fabricated by mainland production companies, mainland writers for express consumption of mainlanders. Kama'aina really never had a great, widespread or longterm interest in these shows or their depiction of island life. They realise it is gross exageration. (sometimes insultingly so.) Fabricated pithy drama for those needing another cop drama format, albeit with a little more exotic backdrop.


Cheap seats, that hilarious show where they skewer and riff on "B" level older sports event shows, had Steve Garvey and his Billfish "classic" (why it is automatically 'classic"' I'll never know) He had a buncha semi-non celebrities on his chartered fishing boat. Mid fish, one guy was stompping around on the deck shaking ti leaves chanting some unknown grunt sound. Hoooboy, Our cheapseats boys lettem have it.

TikiTV is an amazing site! Wow.

I didn't know about the Hawaiian Dick movie being made. I did a search on it after reading what you had to say. How awful! But it doesn't surprise me. Scooby Doo just recently made a cartoon movie currently being sold at Walmart and such called, "Aloha Scooby Doo" and it uses and abuses Hawaiian culture from what I've heard. I haven't gotten around to sitting down and watching it, I'm dreading that task actually. But I like to watch/read something fully before I talk stink. I know there is a villian in it called "Wiki Tiki"...

I'm actually going to pass on your site to a few people who can stand to do some "informative" reading.

"Hawaiian Dick", soon to be a movie starring Johnny Knoxville, is an unrepentant disrespectful title for a graphic 'comic book' format storyline of a haole guy newly transplanted from the mainland working as a private detective. (in real life, you would need to be a real kama'aina to become a private detective. Anyone else would most obviously stick out like a verrry sore thumb! And not be able to get ANNNY where in their investigation. Haoles don't cut it. So right there the premise falls flat as hell.) SO: he most definitely is NOT Hawaiian. Upon further reading he most certainly is a "dick".

The creators were queried: "you been to Hawaii!?" one says "No. But I got a buddy in the military there, so I get firsthand info on what its like". Wrong chucko. You get firsthand info on what its like only if; You. Live. Here. THAT and ONLY that. is firsthand. Not a military guy's accounts of hotel street if and when he ventures off the base. The other one says: "No. BUT! I been to Mexico. and I passed out in an alley there". How sad and as equally insulting. We are equated with any other generic subtropical clime! experienced under a stupor. What a sad, pathetic pseudo excuse of a qualification to write a "Hawaiian detective graphic novel".

I quote the author of Hawaiian Dick: "I have a firm grasp of tiki "culture," as well, and while I'm fully aware that the spread of tiki culture in the States during the 50s and 60s was related more to misconceptions about island culture than anything, the fact is that Hawaii was quick to embrace these misconceptions in an attempt to lure tourists to a paradise that never really existed." Boy, would so many people have a problem with that statement. "Tiki culture" has nothing to do with Hawaii. and having a firm grasp of it, would instantly disqualify you from depicting Hawaii, of any era, as it is locally known to be incredibly insulting to islanders and their culture. They cite "tiki culture" as their draw. Well, this concept did NOT exist in the 50's. It is a current creation of a mainland clique that was weaned on the Disneyland "tiki room" and has no existence outside of this little club. And Hawaii most emphatically did not embrace it to lure tourists. This is patently false, and based on nothing more than assumption and the acceptance of a false lineage and 'history' promulgated and parroted by the haole media, over and over. "..the fact is that Hawaii was quick to embrace these misconceptions in an attempt to lure tourists to a paradise that never really existed" this is not anywhere near a fact. And when some islanders take issue with the way their home is portrayed and disrespected and trivialized, it is claimed we are just trying to nitpick and complain about our "plights".

The dick drives a convertible. NO one drives a convertible except obvious haole tourists. There doesn't seem to be a drop of the local lingo spoken, No pigin. Everyone acts and talks as if they are in New Jersey. Or Los Angeles. A character within the series is named Kahami, a very unlikely unlocal sounding moniker. And they admit to using it solely based on it sounding pretty. Others, here in Hawaii, comment that there is no "Hawaiian feel" to it. He is seen wearing a 'Hawaiian shirt" featuring a flower and woody station wagon design motif. This style is very current. Did not exist then. Not in the 50's. Not in the 60's or the 70's. The woody wagon is now a nostalgic icon and just within the last few years or so, has it been seen on aloha shirts. the "dick" wears two shirts AND long pants. AND black leather shoes. NO one wears this alla time, here. Too hot. You are immediately branded a haole FOB. One would expect to hear; "eh. haole crab. You one real dick. You dress like that. Stoopid buggah!" He also wears what appears to be, in C/U shots, (or drawings/panels) a tiki necklace. This was done mostly by California surfers. In the 60s and beyond. Wrong again, chucko! (It is supposedly set in 1953. So how can we have 60's fashions? And why would we see a 70's Ericaphone on a side table?) And what is with all the Ku statues all around used as decor and light fixtures?! This certainly was not evident in Hawaii then and where it is now, is a product of fake tropical culture erected solely for the tourists in just a few locales. This is insulting and offensive to many islanders. And when this is raised, we get the usual arguements and justifications heard from mainlanders since time immemorial: "there's nothing demeaning in the portrayal. You are looking at it in the wrong light. (!?) People who want to complain will always find things to complain about. We can do what we want with night marchers, because there are a lot of variations to the myth." (SOOOO wrong) And the great lie we hear for years: "We treat (Hawaiian) subjects with respect and avoided stereotypes".

A female assistant to "dick' says: well, a 300 pound guy should be easy to find. " How so!? Many of our bruddahs and local blalahs are about that! I'm damn near that myself! They admit to "reinventing" Hawaii. ok so much for authenticity. The creator says he wants to get everything right: "you realize that no one will notice if a certain light fixture or piece of architecture or bit of clothing is perfectly "correct" but I do feel that their subconscious will notice if it's wrong." "... I'm all too familiar with bad stereotyping and general touristy bollocks, so my rule is that if it makes someone from Hawaii cringe, I don't draw it..." But then we see 9 foot Ku "tikis" flanking this dude's desk, which are light fixtures!

"Tiki dolls"..... never heard them referred to as such here in all my years in Hawaii. He wears a modern print aloha shirt. (the one with woodies). (woodies were not celebrated at all in the fifties like they are now on shirts. they were not a nostalgic campy thing then. It's like a Steve Reeves movie set in ancient Rome. Wherein we see ancient Roman ruins lying all over the place. Just as the mst3k boys shout out indignantly; "They didn't have ancient Roman ruins in ancient Rome!")

A Cal Worthington character sells him a car. Complete with cowboy hat, boots, bolo tie, thick jacket... AND he's called "Honest Haole". 'daHELLL!? A few "well place tikis" does not a Hawaiian comic make. With all the barren lanscape, and haole dialogue, (no pigdin at all) this could very well be set in socal. or miami. the B/G looks like Mulholland drive and barren rolling Cali mountains. A tarzan talking tiki. ("you buy. is good") How and why would zombies fit into the Hawaiian scene? Why would they include "ghosts of ancient Hawaiian warriors" in a comic book? And they say they strive for accuracy and they did their research.

And a few poor souls will be found now and again, to confuse this as a depiction of Hawaii in the 50's. Even tho it is not by any stretch of the imagination. And some may confuse unrelated concepts such as voodoo and believe erroneously, it's related to Hawaii. And assume this comic book is full of real "Hawaiian lingo". Ah well, what do you expect. It's just another example of mainlanders repackaging Hawaii for the consumption of other mainlanders.





being shot around anonymously via e-mail lately..

Let's pretend I visit your house: You offer me food and rest. I decide to stay. I order you and your family around, use your things and rearrange the rooms. I take down your photos and religious symbols, replace them with my own and make you speak my language. One day, I dig up your garden and replace it with crops that I can sell. You and your family must now buy all your food from me. Later, I invite my father and his buddies over. They bring guns. We take your keys. I forge a deed and declare my father to be owner of the house. I bring more people. Some work for me. Some pay me to stay in your house. I seize your savings and spend it on my friends. You and your family sleep on the porch.

Finally, you protest. Being reasonable, I let you stay in a corner of the house and give you a small allowance, but only if you behave. I tell you, "Sorry, I was wrong for taking the house." But when you demand your house back, I tell you to be realistic.

"You are a part of this family now, whether you like it or not," I say. "Besides, this is for your own good. For all that I have done for you, why aren't you grateful?"

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TikiTV is an amazing site! Wow.

I didn't know about the Hawaiian Dick movie being made. I did a search on it after reading what you had to say. How awful! But it doesn't surprise me. Scooby Doo just recently made a cartoon movie currently being sold at Walmart and such called, "Aloha Scooby Doo" and it uses and abuses Hawaiian culture from what I've heard. I haven't gotten around to sitting down and watching it, I'm dreading that task actually. But I like to watch/read something fully before I talk stink. I know there is a villian in it called "Wiki Tiki"...

I'm actually going to pass on your site to a few people who can stand to do some "informative" reading.

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