Setting the Sacred Stage
Today I just happened to be walking by a Hello Kitty store. Then I just happened to walk in. Lina now owns a HK mug and water bottle. (From which, presumably, she can drink the elixir of life). I also realized why Kitty is my higher power of choice for Lina. She’s very neat, likes her pencils very sharp, and has absolutely no mouth.
I must add that it’s appropriate that Auntie Tamara gave Lina her first HK item: the holy ponytail holders (say that three times fast). Considering the hours that Tamara and I spent drinking in the church basement as children, I’d say she’s earned the fast-track to HK priestess.
In Sanrio we trust,
Atomic Mama
May 1st, 2007 at 18:55
I didn’t tell you that it was all I could do to not buy the Hello Kitty sewing maching for Lina. This wasn’t a gimmicky, cheap machine. It is the real McCoy, or in this case McRoberts? Anyhoo, the HK thing can be totally addicting as there is no end to the merchandising of this mouthless kitty. As a kid, I still remember the smells of walking into the HK store at the Modesto Mall (do you remember that?) Here’s to HK power! Moowww.
May 2nd, 2007 at 06:23
all of my childhood allowance was given as weekly offerings to the great kitty.
May 3rd, 2007 at 13:56
Should we prod further into the whole “no-mouth” thing. Does this imply that kitties should be seen, and not heard? Didn’t Ariel Gore write about HK in one of her books? I seem to remember an acerbic paragraph or two, but also remember feeling very defensive about my young love for the kitty with the big, fluffy head and pastel cupcake icing pink background and all of the wonderful HK trinkets that I loved, loved, loved.