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Post #380297 by ikitnrev on Wed, May 14, 2008 2:10 PM

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The worlds of tiki, moral dilemmas, and coffee merge in the following article .....

*Every day at Java Jack's, a mini-morality lesson plays itself out for all to see and be seen. On the front counter of the South Minneapolis coffee shop sits a dime-store tiki doll that, when its button gets pushed, pounds its drums and plays a hypnotic voodoo solo that, frankly, gets pretty damn annoying if left to finish.

Which is why Julie Rathman, a full-time visual artist and part-time barista who at one time housed the little demon in her apartment, put a sign on the devil doll a few months ago:

DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON!*

full article continued here
http://www.minnpost.com/jimwalsh/2008/05/12/1811/curse_of_the_tiki_doll