Today I received my monthly spammy email from Amazon Associates hectoring me to post about their, “Mother’s Day Gift Store ..and to be sure to link to our new Hello Kitty and Simmons stores.”
To my kitschy delight, in the midst of their Hello Kitty Store I spotted this antiquey, silver, Hello Kitty, hole-in-the-head, creepazoid cat that I just had to share with you.
antique silver, Hello Kitty Cat
925 Sterling silver, European style…
As we always say here at 3Yen.com: “You Can Never Have Enough Hello Kitty.” And of course, you can never have enough “luck.” So here’s the robotic Army of Lucky Japanese Maneki Neko/Cats!
THE ARMY OF LUCK, OR THE GLOBAL PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
The Maneki Neko (literally in Japanese the “Beckoning Cat”; aka Lucky Cat, Money Cat) is a favorite Japanese figurine to bring luck, attract customers and bring prosperity. The Lucky Cat waves with the raised left paw and holds a historic coin in front of itself with the right one.
The video is of Boris Petrovsky’s one-man show at ABTART, Stuttgart Germany. The installation “The Global Pursuit of Happiness, or: The Army of Luck” contains 520 shiny golden Lucky Cats made of plastic, which are arranged in 40 rows and 13 columns on a ramp-like stand made of aluminum (W 8 m, H 3 m, D 2 m).
The artist Petrovsky writes:
Are the Lucky Cats one-armed bandits? Or is it a gesture in the context of a political or religious movement? Is it a just a happy waving of the fun-loving, hedonistic society? Or is the assembly of Lucky Cats a revolutionary deployment of wish machines« as »army of luck« or is it just another marketing campaign?
Hello Kitty Cup Ramen—Being enveloped in the bossom of Her Noodly Appendages*!
You know you want it!
Hello Kitten Burlesque Pasties—You know you need them.
(This is a SFW mannequin doing the modeling.)
Kitty titties can be yours via PrettyInPasties on Etsy.
The HelloKittyHell blog has issued yet another warning of Kitty-kraziness—in this case, Bye-bye Kitty™ craziness…
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via Hello Kitty Coffin —HelloKittyHell.com
In a similar morbid Kitty theme, check out the pervious 3Yen posts:
..Hooterless Hello Kitty is offering you a “Volcano of Love” on Valentines Day at Hooters Tokyo.
Everybody needs a risquée glimpse of Hello Kitty’s panties, right?
The rest-of-the-story…
seattlepi.com—Japan Airlines unveiled a Hello Kitty-themed 'Hellosmile' Boeing 777-300 at Tokyo Haneda Airport on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.
JAL, TOKYO FM Broadcasting, and Hello Kitty parent Sanrio Co. joined in the effort to promote cervical cancer awareness and prevention.
This Hello Kitty jet is now flying around domestic destinations here such as Tokyo, Sapporo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Okinawa, so keep your eyes out for it. Also, EVA of Taiwan has been flying their Hello Kitty plane in the region for several years now (3Yen | 2006-01-29)…
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Jake Adelstein, Japan’s hard-hitting reporter on the Yakuza gangster beat, takes on his toughest on his toughest character and controversy yet—Hello Kitty’s confused citizenship!
Adelstein, the hardest of the hardboiled Western journalists covering Japan (Wiki), tries to get to the bottom of the true allegiance of the enigmatic Kitty White aka “
“(Hello Kitty) .
Kitten-Sized Controversy:
Is Hello Kitty from London or Japan?
The Atlantic Wire | Jan. 27, 2012 — by Jake Adelstein and Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky
TOKYO — A controversy is brewing among Japan’s fanatical followers of Hello Kitty: Is the character …long officially described as an English citizen actually a Japanese national? According to the official biography from Sanrio, the Japanese licensing company that controls Hello Kitty, the cute, mouth-less cat was born in London and her real name is the British-sounding Kitty White. But 38 years of character mythology has been thrown into dispute after the publication of Hello Kitty’s Guide to Japan in English and Japanese in which the iconic mascot describes Japan and its culture to the outside world and seems very, very Japanese…
… can read Japanese and speak the language fluently. Kitty is so knowledgeable about Japanese culture and traditions that the reader can only surmise she is either Japanese or an amazingly bilingual Japanese studies scholar…more…
Today, January 25th, is Steamed Meat Bun Day–“nikuman no hi”* , so it’s a perfect day to eat Hello Kitty’s buns, right?
That’s what the major Japanese convenience store “Sankus” thinks (especially since it’s also Chinese New Years and steamed buns originally came from Chinese cuisine).
Details at theSunkus/Circle-K website
Tip-of-the-hat for the idea to the 3Yen’s
correspondent, Den4, for these hot kitty buns.
* Also thanks to peterpayne.net
for the heads-up about
Steamed Meat Bun Day
(aka nikuman no hi).
This photo shows that it never could be “truer” that You-Can-Never-Have-Enough-HELLO-KITTY…
Hello Waste-Of-A-Mercedes
via
If you think that Benz Kitty was a waste, check out this Hello Kitty car interior at the Hello Kitty Hell blog…
Embiggen at kittyhell.com.
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