Hello Kitty

[Doug Henwood]

Someone made disparaging reference to the SF Bay Guardian's piece on 
Hello Kitty. It may be a bit more serious than it seemed. The author, 
Annalee Newitz, writes of it:

At 11:17 PM +0000 1/23/02, brainsploitation wrote:
>My latest screed on pop culture is the cover story in the San
>Francisco Bay Guardian this week . . . it's about how the
>overwhelming cuteness of American culture (think Hello Kitty and
>Harry Potter) is infecting our political rhetoric and turning US
>citizens into credulous children.
>
>http://www.sfbg.com/36/17/news_cute.html

Of course Hello Kitty is Japanese, and Harry Potter is British, but 
Americans are omnivorous. Off to read the story...

Doug