NW TIki Crawl Official Announcement:

BULLETIN: THE NW TIKI CRAWL TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Tikiphiles, it’s time to start planning your trip to beautiful Portland, Oregon for the 2005 Northwest Tiki Crawl on June 17, 18 & 19!

This email has all the vital information; please see http://www.nwtiki.com for more details. Also check out the NW Tiki Forum at http://forum.nwtiki.com/ to chat with your fellow NW Tiki Crawlgoers.

This year’s NW Tiki Crawl has been expanded and improved, with bigger raffle prizes, more locations and amazing entertainment. Thanks to our generous sponsors—Cruzan Rums, 3D Spirits (makers of VooDoo & Redrum), Tiki Magazine, The Alibi (Portland’s premier tiki bar), The Jupiter Hotel and Munktiki—this year’s crawl will be better than ever.

The entertainment has been enhanced while still preserving last year’s most popular acts. Returning to entertain you this year are the Northwest’s (and Tiki Central’s) own Lushy. DJ Selector Lopaka will also return to spin your favorite in exotica and lounge. Joining us for the first time are Susan and the Surftones. Stay tuned for more entertainment to be added!

We have created a new pricing structure that we hope will accommodate everyone, balancing participation and economy with giving you the fabulous experience of Portland’s unique tiki offerings.

The schedule is currently as follows; visit http://www.nwtiki.com to keep abreast of changes:

Friday, June 17:

Kick off party at Portland’s greatest home tiki bar, Castaway Cove. Enjoy the hospitality of TikiMaxton and Pele, get to know your fellow crawl-goers old and new (7pm to midnight).

Saturday, June 18:

Socialize at one of the West Coast’s preeminent tiki bars, The Alibi. The Alibi is a Portland landmark (and popular karaoke hotspot) filled with original tiki artifacts, a Witcoid bar and the finest in day-glo Hula girl paintings. There you will get your crawl package and badge and enjoy free appetizers. This will also be the time to shop! A variety of tiki vendors will be there to sell their wares. If you’re short on cash, load up on raffle tickets for a chance to win one of the great prizes from our sponsors – Cruzan, Redrum and Munktiki – as well as other art and tiki collectibles (4-8pm).

The Crawl then moves on to Portland’s party tiki bar, Jasmine Tree. Enjoy Jasmine Tree’s superb exotic décor and classic Chinese-American cuisine. Dance the night away to tiki tunes, win something in the raffle, enjoy the company of your fellow tikifans. Although the party ends at the Jasmine Tree at 1am, who knows how long it will last back at our sponsor, The Jupiter Hotel? (9pm-1am)

Sunday, June 19:

This is NW Tiki’s distinctive offering: a tour of the Rose City’s finest private retro and tiki home bars. Ride in quiet comfort (not too early!) in a luxury coach to visit the homes of NW Tikites. Steal their decorating ideas (but not their mugs, please!) for your own home. We will have new locations on this year’s tour (as well as returning favorites) – it is an event not to be missed. Space is limited on the bus (and in the homes) so buy your ticket early. Rums provided by our sponsors, 3D (including Redrum, VooDoo and the new Jolly Roger) and Cruzan rums.

Ticket Pricing Structure

We have four packages available to accommodate all levels of participation.

The Basic Package gains you entry to Friday Night’s bash at TikiMaxton’s Castaway Cove as well as the Main Saturday Night Crawl at The Alibi & The Jasmine Tree. $25

The Huki Package adds a ticket for the bus on Sunday’s home bar tour. $35

Package Hula adds instead a limited edition collectible 2005 NW Tiki Crawl Mug, designed by our very own Tikitronic (at half the normal price!). $37.50

Package Big Kahuna is the whole shebang: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and the limited edition collectible mug. $47.40

You can also purchase the NW Tiki Crawl 2005 limited edition commemorative collectible mug separately, designed by Tikitronic. $25

You can purchase your tickets today at htpp://www.nwtiki.com! Click on STORE to reserve your place on what promises to be the Northwest tiki event of the year. Remember that the mugs have a limited run of 50, and there are only 50 seats on the bus! Book early to avoid disappointment.

Accommodations

The Jupiter Hotel is the official hotel of the 2005 NW Tiki Crawl, and is centrally located to the Crawl vicinity. The Jupiter is located within walking distance of the MAX in the emerging Lobu district. The Jupiter and attached Doug Fir restaurant, bar & live music club are fast becoming a Portland hotspot. The Jupiter is offering special Crawl packages, please call 503-230-9200 or email Al@Jupiterhotel.com and ask for the NWTIKI Rate.

We hope you will join us for a weekend of special Northwest style tiki hospitality! We look forward to meeting new friends as well as catching up with old ones.

Mahalo!
The NW Tiki Crawl Cabal

FORUM: http://forum.nwtiki.com/
MAIN SITE: http://www.nwtiki.com/

TRAGEDY

I figured out what is making my stomach ache so much:

🙁

Coffee.

I had 2 cups this morning and had a terrible stomach ache, so I drank tea at work. Tummy Happy. For a lark, I had a cup. Tummy goes back to ACHING.

This is not good. I just *can’t* stay away from Coffee!

Waaa.

Queens of the Stone Age are playing at The Filmore in San Francisco tommorow night.

They are not coming near PDX or SEA this tour (read Hopefully this leg of the tour).

Oh well, I’ve already seen them once in concert, no biggie.

laying low

Hey, just laying low trying to get work done.

Been feeling crappy and tired lately, but relatively cheerful.

That’s about it.

Small Geek-Out

Following the standard practice of closing single (usually non-closed) HTML Tags by putting a slash before the final greater-than character makes me incredibly happy.

( That is: < BR /> instead of < BR > )

The very Idea of “non-closed” tags (IMG, INPUT, BR, &c.) has bugged me since I first learned HTML. Now every tag gets closed. Yay.

Weeee Thursday

Blah blah blah blah

How’s your day going. Mine goes from fair to OK.

I haven’t found out about tonight yet. I’ll email that right out.

-=C

Back

Back from trip to SF.

Very Tired. Craig no more drivey anywhere.

Craig stay home.

Trip very fun, drive very not.

One word talking fun.

bye!