Hello Kitty is a senior citizen
Well, OK, Kitty is 65 this year; she was created in 1946. There are currently over 50,000 licensed items with Kitty's image on them.
These factoids are brought to you courtesy of the Mingei Museum in San Diego, CA and the catalog for their current exhibit of menaki neko [the Japanese beckoning cat statues] which I saw today. The exhibit was very cool, over 150 neko, from a private collection that was donated to the museum when the owner decided that she really didn't have room for all her neko. Neko beckoning with the right paw bring good fortune to the home and some businesses. Left-pawed cats bring good fortune to restaurants, bars and other busenesses that are open at night. White cats are for general good fortune, black ones are for safety, gold for wealth and red ones attract demons to themselves, thereby sparing their owners. Purple, pink and green neko are only found in sets of erasers for small children [available at the gift store for $5.80]
You can learn all kinds of amazing things by hanging out in museums and reading the exhibition catalogs that they leave around for patrons to look at; I didn't know any of that stuff before today.
I go back to school in two and a half weeks. I haven't been there since the last day of school in June and right now I'm not planning to go in ahead of time. The new school year starts for us special education folks with a three hour orientation on how to do discipline so the district doesn't end up in court; apparently someone blew it a couple of years ago.
These factoids are brought to you courtesy of the Mingei Museum in San Diego, CA and the catalog for their current exhibit of menaki neko [the Japanese beckoning cat statues] which I saw today. The exhibit was very cool, over 150 neko, from a private collection that was donated to the museum when the owner decided that she really didn't have room for all her neko. Neko beckoning with the right paw bring good fortune to the home and some businesses. Left-pawed cats bring good fortune to restaurants, bars and other busenesses that are open at night. White cats are for general good fortune, black ones are for safety, gold for wealth and red ones attract demons to themselves, thereby sparing their owners. Purple, pink and green neko are only found in sets of erasers for small children [available at the gift store for $5.80]
You can learn all kinds of amazing things by hanging out in museums and reading the exhibition catalogs that they leave around for patrons to look at; I didn't know any of that stuff before today.
I go back to school in two and a half weeks. I haven't been there since the last day of school in June and right now I'm not planning to go in ahead of time. The new school year starts for us special education folks with a three hour orientation on how to do discipline so the district doesn't end up in court; apparently someone blew it a couple of years ago.