I added to my collection as well as cashed in a few loyalty cards for a Paperclip holder and a CD case; a new program started this month. I addition, I added a Hello Kitty and Kuromi one to my work cubicle collection. Thanks to this guy I am using my Hello Kitty back pack every day even at work. Now one can ask how I get away with having Sanrio items without major ridicule; my answer, I work in tech, engineers and we technicians are weird enough as it is. We do not put up Christmas lights, that would be too normal, no we hook them up to a few Phidget Relays and develop an application to synchronize them to music.

While at the store I notice a Kuromi and Chococat as big as my big kitty; this is going to be an after Christmas dilemma.

It has been a while since I had been shopping for kitty items, I had a little extra for selling on EBay and I was open to buy a few cheap items. Normally on Saturdays I do the Estate to EBay thing, like any fan I check Craigslist to see if any garage sales have any Hello Kitty items; one popped up so I added the sale to my route.

Last week, I packed up Big Kitty (it her turn to ride shotgun for the month) and found the Hello Kitty sale and pick a few sheets of stickers and a grab bag with a pin, looks like the Los Vegas version.  I had to cut G-sale short so I could attend little fur meet Pioneer Place a down town mall,    a fur meet is where  we get together and share  what is going on in our lives and a little art. Sometime we would go to a movie or go out to a meal. One of a good friend, knowing how much I like Hello Kitty gave me a Hello Kitty antenna ball. Unfortunately it was lost today when I brushed against a tree branch.

After the meet I checkout the down town Sanrio store and picked up a 10.00 grab bag, I got a bracelet, charm, a cup and bowl set , a Chococat   purse and Panaappe purse wallet. I was hoping for plushies, trinkets and stickers. Still I got my money’s worth.

This week G-sale trip I decided to check out some new territory for me, Vancouver Saturday, Friday I stuck local and picked up this bag. I am using and hope some do not get the wrong idea. Personally I do not; 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.

This brings a dilemma being a hello Kitty male fan: while Sanrio is mainly feminine there are many items like my bedding, car accessories and plushies I can have, collect and use, but there are things like women clothing and accessories I have no use or can not use because I am a male. Some because of function other simple it is physically impossible as a guy. A HK purse just will not work for me except to collect other example I can think of a few others like women panties, and um ah…. The (can’t mention this Sanrio product). Oh well I have some nice items for a swap at Hello Kitty Junkies.

I do not post very often been I have own blog and Live Journal Account. I a bit bored and while waiting for HKO to start up again for the Happy Hearts events I though I share a bit about being a male fan.

Why Hello Kitty, one I am a fan of Anthropomorphic cartoon characters and I think she cute with out the drama. I also been eccentric all my life and have a devil may care attitude. I like Hello Kitty and wish to decorate my apartment Sanrio Items it my choice. In a way I look at it as a form of artist expression, my willingness to buck societies’ standards and create and environment that is my own.

Now to a few of my Favorite items.

I like the Urban Outfitters series.

Me and big kitty. Behind me is my 6 foot tall Dot Warner Plush.

I got her from a charity sale.

As you can see I am a Hello Kitty guy.

Am I a Pioneer?

Thanks to Hello Kitty Hell, this article in Time was brought to my attention. 

10 Questions for Yuko Yamaguchi

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1834451,00.html

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What I found amusing was her answer to the Question about Hello Kitty Future.

“In 10 years’ time, everybody around the world will know her. Also, the number of male and female fans will be the same. Men who are still reluctant to be seen with Kitty in public today might be wearing Hello Kitty boxers. But they will eventually stop being shy and will show off Kitty proudly.”

I guess that makes me a and a few other men pioneers. The first generation, then again it would be interesting to see who might be the first male fans. Now I know some have written her off as eccentric coot but as I look at it deeper, she may know something we are missing. We’re talking about somebody who took a failing line turn into a multi million Yen empire. Secondly while see dress eccentrically most entrepreneurs are eccentric and mavericks because they are the ones willing to think outside the box and take risk. Still there no guarantee Hello Kitty will go where no Kitty has gone before: in men’s lives.