You are forgiven for not recalling Part One, since that post appeared here some four years ago. The Bum would have followed it up sooner, if he wasn’t a bum. At any rate, here are more sightings of Tiki drinks on TV: THE APARTMENT (1960): Fred MacMurray downs Daiquiris with Shirley Maclaine in a perfect [...]
If you’re still wondering whether the Tiki Revival has legs, consider Black Mountain, North Carolina, where the last pop culture trend to penetrate city limits was bear-baiting. Passing through the area recently, the Beachbum entered the local Ingles supermarket in search of limes and ice. There, just inside the door, he found a coin-operated novelty [...]
Berliners do not take their drinking lightly. A recent week there had us sprawled in our bed at the end of every night, barely able to move. Fortunately we had company. Nightly from 12 to 6 a.m., a local TV station aired an unbroken closeup of a dour puppet trapped in a Sartrean void. His [...]