"A silence, as before creation, broods / Sublimely o'er the desert solitudes."

[larryhammer]

Three related links from MetaFilter:

Kickended, a website that redirects to a random Kickstarter project that ended without attracting a single backer. A random grazing will usually make it clear why each one failed (this seems particularly dire, I must say).

Shinto is very much an animistic religion, and a loved toy like a doll or plushy is considered likely to have gained a spirit as a result of being much loved -- and so when it's discarded, a ceremony is needed to lay that toy's spirit to rest.

tl;dr version of the Bible.

Well, *I* think they're related. If you squint slantwise. Through my brain.

---L.

Subject quote from "Desert Hymn to the Sun," Bayard Taylor.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the funerals for things. I feel that way about them, and I cannot bear to part.

Nine

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll never ping Kickended, at least.

So far.

Did you see the one from the guy in Tucson who was going to make a movie for a cool quarter-million? Bottom tier $1000. Dream on, cowboy. Dream on.

...

I am to understand that people don't generally hold funerals for their toys? How sad.

[larryhammer]

Bottom tier $1000

!!

Um, yeah.

Funerals when broken beyond usable, I've seen. Not when outgrown, so much.

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

My parents probably would have funded the kundalini yoga DJ.

[larryhammer]

Heh. Entirely possible!

---L.