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Having just read again this excellent blog post on Humu Kon Tiki, I was prompted to reply..
I enjoyed reading about your take on common Sushi and Tiki in The Way In Which Tiki Is Like Sushi - I kinda agree, but from my point of view it is very hard to be a seller of Tiki, even if Hawaiian-made and hard-carved, without feeling a little guilty.
With the plastic, sea-side souvenir-shop "tiki" it's easy to be critical - but when selling online no-one gets to see the guys out there carving the Tiki statues or totems. All you see is a website, and websites are..well it's hard to give a website "soul".
Maybe it's more possible with a personal blog - perhaps soul is another way of saying "personality" in this case - but websites selling Tiki as a business (yeah, not as a hobby) don't long survive if they give the impression of a "fun guy making Tiki".
Perhaps you are saying that there is no place for selling Tiki online, and that Tiki should remain a rare mystery for most people, only bought from remote villages. But I doubt that you're saying that. :)
Regardless, I'm going to keep trying to spread the Tiki word - and sell some cool stuff along the way. At least I can sleep easy knowing that there's no plastic or balsa wood "tiki" on my site. Hey, couldn't resist replying to this, keep up the good writing. 
P.S. TikiSushi.com is still available..great domain if I could think of a use for it!
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