Summer 2025 - More Cigar Time & Tiki Cocktails

 Saturday, July 26, 2025

Another cigar today. This time a Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur and it was fantastic. 

Also made a couple more Joey's Orange Speedos. This time I left out the orgeat which made it a little less sweet.

                       

Not sure I'm gonna keep using the Sunkist Zero Sugar. Despite being sugarless it's still made to taste quite sweet. If I don't use it next time I may reintroduce the orgeat. 

I used a fun tiki glass I got from The Black Lagoon Room. I like their stuff. I got it when they a booth at a previous Big Kahuna Bash. 

Speaking of the Big Kahuna Bash we didn't make it to this year's event. This is the seventh year and as sorry as I am to miss it it's probably for the best since the heat and humidity are dangerously high today. Maybe next year. Shag designed the linocut print for the event (see below).

Dale joined me outside as I was getting to the end of my cigar. I was on my 2nd Orange Speedo and he had a glass of white wine. 

Listened to Arthur Lyman which is always enjoyable. 

Big Kahuna Bash 5 - Part 6

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Picked up some cool swizzle sticks. A couple from the Black Lagoon Room. The ones by Shag came with the tiki cocktails. 

Also scored a couple of Big Kahuna 5 pint glasses. 

Shag designed a limited edition GBKB5 shirt for this event. They were a little spendy but what really kept me from buying one was that, although I love orange, it really doesn't look good on me. 

Big Kahuna Bash 5 - Part 4

Saturday, July 29, 2023

For my third, and final, tiki cocktail a got the Big Kahuna. This was the one our new acquaintance, John, got. He didn't care for it. I rather did. 

Shag had a great Hawaiian shirt. He seemed to be genuinely having a great time. I have a couple of his books. I shoulda brought one for him to autograph as I saw him doing so for some other folks.

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The Big Kahuna Bash 2021 - Group Art Show

Saturday, July 31, 2021

This year's art show at the Big Kahuna Bash featured artists Coop, Big Toe, Tiki Bosko, Derek, and more. I was really interested in a piece by Big Toe (shown middle in the above photo) and would've bought it but the guy doing the sales was never in the room long enough for me to do so. I gave up. Oh well, maybe next year. By the way, Dale was really taken with the pieces by Derek. 

However I did pick up the official Grumpy's Big Kahuna Tiki Mug by Shag. There was the option of green or blue (I went with blue). The first two images in the above photo show the front and the back of the blue one. 

Above is a computer rendering of the mug showing multiple angles which was posted by Shag on his Instagram page. 

Here's are cartoon version of the mug by Shag.

And here is the one I bought. I believe only 100 of them were made. Supposedly there's one already on eBay going for $800.

While waiting to buy a Diet Coke at the bar a guy next to me saw me with my boxed mug and said, "Oh, good for you. You got one!" I told him I was jazzed about it. He said, "You know, Shag didn't make that. He just drew it. Someone else made the mug. I went to Shag and told him that and Shag told me that Frank Lloyd Wright just drew his buildings. He didn't make them." I said, "He's not wrong." He responded, "Yeah, I got owned." Sure enough. Don't mess with Shag. 

Quarantiki - Tiki Tuesday Part 2

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Shag has been offering coloring sheets lately. I shaded these in with Colorfy and then made a collage with BeFunky. 

Big Kahuna Bash at Grumpy's in Roseville

Saturday, July 27, 2019

This afternoon Dale and I checked out the Big Kahuna Bash at Grumpy's in Roseville. We had quite a great time. We started out with dinner in the restaurant. 

Dale started with a beer.

The Tilted Tiki in Stillwater did the tiki drinks for the event. I started with The Surfin' Bird which the menu described as: "A wave of exotic flavors in dark rum, herbs, fresh pineapple and lime juices. Named after the Minnesota Surf Legends - The Trashmen!" Very tasty.

For my second drink I went with the Big Kahuna which the menu described as: "The big, bold tiki favorite. A tasty blend of rum, citrus, honey and passion fruit!" A little too sweet for my taste. Odd because the Tilted Tiki's drinks are generally really well made and NOT over-sweet. I'm wondering if they did them in large batches just for this event. 

There was also a Mai-Tai on the tiki drink menu which I didn't have a chance to try. For dinner Dale had the Impossible Burger which was actually meatless. He loved it and said it would  have otherwise fooled him! I went with the Bangkok Chicken Sammy. It was a chicken sandwich with BBQ sauce and pineapple. Very yummy. Shag walked by our booth as we were eating and I said hello. 

Hot Pastrami

After dinner we had a chance to walk around and check things out. We listened to the band Hot Pastrami play. They were quite fun.

Works by Shag on display upstairs at Grumpy's

Shag was the host of the whole event and had an art show going on upstairs. 

Out side we found the vendor's booths so I had a chance to shop for souvenirs. Dale caught me looking around The Black Lagoon's Room's booth in the above photo.

After my shopping I took this photo of Dale with some images by Shag in the patio windows. He mentioned to me a few different times during our visit what a good time he was having. I'm glad!

I brought home some souvenirs including a pint glass and also two enamel pins by Artis Pete Klockau of Milwaukee, Wisconsin whom I follow on Instagram as The  Black Lagoon Room. The pin on the right is also shown below. 

This pin was designed exclusively for The Big Kahuna Bash and only 100 were made!

I also picked up a couple of posters. One looks just like the image above but without the date across it. 

I also picked up this poster as well. 

The folks from The Black Lagoon Room. Such friendly folks! Photo not mine but from Instagram.

The Black Lagoon Room's wares. Photo also from Instagram.

Spring Break 2019 Tiki Tour: Frankie's Tiki Room Part 3

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Frankie's Tiki Room turned out to be a bit different from what I expected. Now I know that Las Vegas and tiki bars themselves are by nature over the top. However, I was expecting Frankie's to more stylized, sleek, and even outlandish, like something you might see in a theme park. It ended up being smaller and more down home than I thought. It felt something like a much loved neighborhood dive bar. Dale and I loved it. 

Cigar In the Yard - Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Shag Tiki Pendant

Another cigar in the yard today. Had a hula hula cocktail, listened to music, and downloaded some Martin Denny exotica.