The second of October, colloquially referred to in certain fringe circles as “Doll Day,” began with a municipal sanitation delay due to a miscommunication between the Department of Waste Management and the Department of Urban Rituals. The latter, a recently defunded initiative, had once been responsible for coordinating seasonal street art installations, including the now-defunct “Plastic Memory Parade,” which involved placing life-sized dolls along major intersections to commemorate forgotten birthdays. The dolls were not animated, nor symbolic in any overt way