Holy cow, guys! The mind-meltingly hilarious Hello Kitty Hell wrote a lovely post about my Hello Kitty misadventures! I’ve had a big ol’ bloggy crush on Hello Kitty Hell since I first started religiously following it last year (and using it to torture The Ex with threats of a Kitty-fied bedroom), so perhaps you can imagine my PERILOUS levels of PURE PSYCHITUDE.
See, the flaming school bus represents dignity and the Hello Kitty represents ... um, still Hello Kitty.
Also, overwhelmed by the sheer number of links in my first sentence? Can’t figure out which to click? Seriously, click them all. Then add Hello Kitty Hell to your RSS feed. (And, uh, you can go ahead and add me too, if I’m not there already…)
Shameless self-promotion on my part? What can I say: I’m usually a shy and retiring little wallflower blogger. So. You can consider this my uncharacteristic act of the day. And if this isn’t uncharacteristic enough for you, wait ’til tomorrow evening, when I tackle the NTKOG I have been terrified out of my mind to take on since I first started this little project.
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People used to call me in Hello Kitty because I was Chinese, and I guess they thought it was funny even though it was a Japanese character, and actually, not Chinese at all.
I don’t care. I still think HK is cute. But only in small, subtle, doses.
@Cheryl: Yikes! Where did you grow up that people were that ignorant slash unfunny? That town from Footloose?
@FB: Oh, it’s true — small doses! Like, Hello Kitty coin purse: adorable; Hello Kitty custom paint job on your Ferrari: horrifying. A small pair of Hello Kitty earrings: funky and sweet; Hello Kitty lingerie: get used to being alone.
I love that people on Hello Kitty Hell are attacking NTKOG for — what, the experimental validity of her Hello Kitty experiment? There are hilarious:
“If she went to a Sanrio store and purchases some jewelry and a shirt and lose the cheesy necklace she might have gotten a better response.”
“This experiment was rigged from the beginning. She never had the real Hello Kitty spirit within her and people could tell. People know when you aren’t genuine. Had she been real and embraced the love of Hello Kitty, then people would have embraced her. You can’t fake it because people know so this whole experiment is tainted.”
“The problem not just her style but the posting is biased on a straw man logical fallacy or should I say straw kitty.
She builds a straw man of a hello kitty fan and reports on it rather than seeking a real hello kitty fan. The post is a report on herself and her weak argument not on Hello Kitty Fandom.”
Oh my god, “or should I say straw kitty” — that’s AMAZING! Dude, no one should ever say straw kitty. I do love the misconception that I seem to be running some sort of highly scientific anti-Hello Kitty peer-reviewed journal over here. I guess my social experiments need MORE FRIGGIN’ RIGOR.