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A Tiki Tour of the OBX
Posted by Jonathan Chaffin on
Right off the bat, let me say I didn't expect to find any tiki hiding out in the Outer Banks of North Carolina (OBX for short). Pirate themes, nautical and shipwreck dive bars, maybe, but not what I would call tiki in the Donn Beach poly-pop sense. Surprise! I found some! I also found some other neat things.
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- Tags: 2015, Black Pelican, distillery, island, Kapu Tiki, Mama Kwans, OBX, Pedro's, pirate, reviews, Secret Spot, South of the Border, tiki tour, tour
Corner-booth Blog #8 - Reviews from the 2013 Monster Serial event
Posted by Jonathan Chaffin on
My first fandom is horror literature. I love tiki, art history, sci-fi, fantasy, movies, graphic design, and just about all other flights of fancy, but the place I started, if I really trace it back, is horror fiction. At Christmas one year I got a large leatherbound book of Robert Louis Stevenson stories and an unabridged collection of Edger Allen Poe stories. Between "Treasure Island", the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekell and Mr. Hyde," "Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Black Cat" I fell in love with the outre and the macabre.[1] Thousands of books and a word processor later...
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- Tags: Halloween 2013, Monster Serial, reviews