Kumoricon is the big Anime convention I n Portland Oregon over the Labor Day weekend. This is my second one. Friday I picked up my badge, Noting the response to my Hello Kitty I made an executive decision. Originally I was only going to bring my small convention Kitty. Noting the response I decided to bring big Kitty, she was a hit at the convention.
Cosplayers With Hello Kitty I
Coffee Break
G-sale Rescue.
Or is my apartment become a Sanrio refuge?
You know you’re a hello kitty obsessive hello Kitty Fan why one call Hello Kitty yard sale purchases a rescue.
Today G-saling run I cam across one where the mother and daughter saw my big kitty, the mother inform me there was probably some Hello Kitty items mixed in with the large pile of plushies she was selling. All of a sudden the daughter, around eight, informed her mother she was not longer interested in Hello Kitty and put her HK plush into the sale pile. I hope it was not the sight of me, guy with a Hello Kitty Plush that ended the magic for the young girl, I will never forgive myself. I did felt guilty enough to go back purchase three of them. Her mother thanked me; I suspect she was trying to get her daughter to downsize the number of plushies. There was a huge pile, perhaps more than 50.
This leads me to a question, I noticed many ads for yard sales or selling pre-owned Sanrio items go like this, “Selling Hello Kitty items daughter no longer interested in them”. Now I know many adult Sanrio fans started as child. The question I have is was there a break in your interest between childhood and adult hood, and became a Hello Kitty Fan on the rebound or were you a fan since childhood?
This week G-sale trip I decided to check out some new territory for me, Vancouver on Saturday, Friday I stuck local yard sales and picked up this bag. I am using it and hope some do not get the wrong idea. Personally I do not care what anybody thinks; I am a free spirit.
Saturday in Vancouver was a bust, I head home around 3PM and stopped over Sanrio grand opening and picked up some free paper fans and did the obligatory picture with Hello Kitty.
MSNBC and Democrats do a Joe Camel on Hello Kitty.
Once upon a time, there was an anthropomorphic camel name Joe Camel used in an add campaign to sell cigarettes. The Democrats immediately sized upon poor Joe, twisted the facts and accused R.J Reynolds of trying to sell to children. If one took a look at the ads it clear Joe was aimed at adults.
Now the liberal media and Democrats had turned their wrath at Hello Kitty in their press to pass Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act. I leave my objections aside except regulation has a nasty habit of backfiring on the consumer and my drive the poor to underground lenders, a boom to organize crime. What Rachel Maddlow did is a new low in story manufacturing and pres bias. She uses a sweeping generalization as in Hello Kitty markets to 10 to 14 year olds therefore there are marketing credit cards to 10 to 14 year olds. The flaw in this logic is Sanrio does markets to adults as well and a large majority of fans are over the age of 21. The fact she mentions sanrio.com showing the credit card but if she just click on Sanrio Luxe www.sanrio.com/sanrioluxe/ the New York concept store, she would see a line tailored for an older clientele. The card is defiantly aimed at older consumers not kids.