Comic Con is in full swing this weekend in San Diego. And I’m not there….again. So, I’m bitter. Again.
I know, I should stop my whining and get my butt out there. I mean, seriously — even Hallmark Cards has a booth. And I know them!
But instead, here I am in Boston, spending my entire day making a living.
Or am I?
Perhaps that’s really me behind those dark glasses…sporting a sexier version of Star Wars stormtrooper gear. (The black inserts are slimming, don’t you agree?)
And any girl will tell you when your best friend has blue hair, the guys are gonna look your way.
(That is a girl…right?)
Or perhaps that’s me in full costume dressed as a…well, as a…cat? With Harry Potter taped glasses, even.
I do have green eyes, and although I’m not a big fan of pink hair on a normal day, I think the green and gold jumpsuit saves it.
A cat superhero? I can get behind that for a day.
(Just don’t tell my dog.)
Yes, maybe ‘being’ at Comic Con is just a state of mind. Maybe being a geek is enough.
A geek that whines — goodness knows I’m working that so far.
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Catty, or not
Unless you have been avoiding social media, you have no doubt heard the shocking revelation from Sanrio that Hello Kitty is, in fact not a kitty:
“Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”
How many little girl characters sport whiskers? If they have a hormonal imbalance, maybe…but that’s not the stuff of your typical cutesy cartoon world.
But instead, let’s focus on the bigger question —
WHY?
Why pick now to drop this bomb? It has been 40 years since this very pink, very catty property was introduced — why pick now to draw this line in the litter box?
If this distinction mattered that much to Sanrio and to its legion of crazy cat lasses and ladies, they should have made it abundantly clear four decades ago.
Meow.
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