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You know, I quoted another writer's Christmas Day entry in which she jokingly referred to a Hello Kitty vibrator. I bemoaned the fact that she had though it up instead of me. Well, the emails started arriving almost instantly.
Yes, it exists. To my Loyal Readers, I proudly present the Hello Kitty vibrator.
Julie isn't very amused by this. She grew up playing with Hello Kitty (okay, perverts, you know what I mean), so the inevitable mental image that comes up here is not one that makes her terribly happy. Her innocence and her tender childhood memories are no doubt threatened by the Hello Kitty vibrator. It is shaking up her world.
Lucky for her that it's a very rare and sought-after item and is not available for sale except in auctions. Believe me, I know of what I speak. Hello Kitty!
The other thing I wanted to mention was a followup to the whole issue of playing music in The Monolith that might be offensive to Moneymoney's significant Jewish community. This week, in a strange parallel coincidence, we received as an approved in-store play a recording of tone poems by Richard Strauss, who was, as you might recall, something of a stooge for the Nazis. I mean, he was an old man and was no doubt just trying to do what he thought he had to do to survive, but let's face it. You don't hang with Hitler and expect your reputation to be unsullied. You sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Poor Strauss ended up with a lot of fleas.
As if that's not bad enough, the two conductors represented on the CD, Mengelberg and Krauss, were both as badly tainted as Strauss by their activities within the Third Reich. Again, the reputations they ended up with were probably unfair; Krauss in particular was known to have helped Jewish musicians escape Germany. But the stigma has remained on all three musicians, and now we're playing it in the store.
To be frank, I doubt there are very many customers who even know enough to get upset. Most of them buy their Three Tenors Valentine album (yes, there is one, I know this time) without a care in the world. Still, if someone sees that CD in the "Now Playing" display and knows anything about the figures involved, I suspect they'll be extremely pissed and will make a huge scene.
With my luck, I'll miss it if it happens. I always do.
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I seriously need to hook up with the cousin who is in Japan. She'd definitely be able to give me the scoop on what's up with Hello Kitty and Hello Kitty knock offs. If I ever go to Japan it is going to be for the sushi and for the Hello Kitty stuff that you would never get here in the USA. The microwave, the rice cooker, the car. Other stuff.
Big huge kudos to reader Jen for bringing this one to my attention. She dropped me a note to tell me she came across a Hello Kitty mentioning in some other journal that would surely make me laugh.
The Hello Kitty vibrator! That's what other stuff!
Here's the entry where it is from and where I appropriated the image for my Hello Kitty scrapbook. He made an oblique reference to Rafinee's journal, who was the one who got him started on the HKV whom I know from PinkPig-ness and those iguana circles. Not only is RL a small world, so my VR! But this was just too funny! Made my day!
Where do I buy one?
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Meow! :tongue3