Caption This!

Struggling to think of an adequate caption for the Hello Kitty deodorant from Rexona – Pussy Wind – a limited edition, 24 hour intensive anti-perspirant. There has to be a better caption than “Queef In A Can” and it isn’t helping that I’m humming Red Hot Chili Peppers ♪She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy♪ from the song “Under The Bridge”. Is there an angle on the Bette Midler song “Wind Beneath My Wings” or Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”? How about Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind”? Maybe there is a slant on the movie “Gone With The Wind” – arghhhhh – “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

UPDATE: Thanks to the one and only Jake Adelstein of Tokyo Vice notoriety for this tweet: Hello Kitty says: “I may have no mouth but I have a nose and you stinky. If you want to be with this pussy, wear this.” New slogan!

Teacher, writer, performer and Mum, Wendy Horikoshi has lived, breathed and worked in Japan for a little over 13 years. Taking a left turn from tarting up medical journals and wedding speeches, she takes a look at the Kawaii culture that envelopes Japan.

If it isn’t Kawaii in Japan, it just doesn’t rate a mention.

With Hello Kitty everything, bank cards, bentos (lunch boxes), and dish sponges in the shape of characters and cake, you can’t escape the cute.

Now, I am not really a Kitty fan. Little white cat, with no mouth? Needs everything to be twee and adorable? Nah. Then along came my babies. Two hard core Kitty fans, both boys, with kitty spoons, socks, toothbrushes, pyjama’s and kitty dinner sets, my house is overtaken with cute. I am drowning in pink and white bows, little hearts and sparkle on everything.

Before I was somebody’s Mum, I was in a punk band, with black nails, purple hair, and many, many piercings. Cute just isn’t my cup of tea.

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Hello Kitty supervises the waste being thrown into this Japanese garbage truck as it does the rounds of the streets of Tokyo. I hope you sorted your trash properly! Thanks to jsleeuw for this one.

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