TuesdoLinks: Victorino in 2015 is now assured!

I am fast becoming a huge tiki-phile, indulging in the growing global resurgence of interest in that distinctly American mid-century modality of tropical fascination. It was a time when returning war vets from the Pacific theater, and Americans of all sorts welcoming Hawaii to the Union, drove architects and restauranteurs and car wash owners and laundromats and landscapers and chainsaw artists into thematic frenzies. That kitsch is fast becoming valuable artifacts of an important cultural phase in our history. Major collections have been museum showings in Europe. Retrospective documentaries are coming out of production houses with regularity. So I promise to work very hard at refraining from turning the amazing gift that is Shane Victorino into yet another cheap cliche.