The Future of Hello Kitty Hell
It seems that there are a few blog readers that felt their lives were so pathetic that it necessitated them to involve themselves in my life by way of my wife. They felt compelled to email my wife time and again until they had convinced her that this blog was much more than a way for me to innocently let off some steam about Hello Kitty. They insisted that this blog was degrading to the evil feline and to all Hello Kitty fanatics, especially my wife. My wife confronted me about this over the winter vacation and has demanded that I abandon this blog.
Of course, the Hello Kitty fanatics didn’t stop just there. They have convinced my wife that once I have abandoned the blog, that it should be reinvented as a Hello Kitty Heaven blog to even out the bad karma I have thrown Hello Kitty’s way these past couple of years.
Does anyone have any good suggestions on how we might resolve this current standoff that might keep me from spending all of 2009 on the couch in the Hello Kitty sleeping bag?
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Posted: January 2nd, 2009 under Hello Kitty.
Comments: 161
oh wow! as much as i love this blog if it’s affecting your life like that by all means stop! i mean, i love HK and i am definitely a fanatic, but people emailing you like that is really messed up. and to the point of stalking your wife! that’s madness! even for hello kitty fans! it’s really sad it’s come down to this when this used to be such a fun place but then i had no idea people were being stalker-ish about it!
i will miss this blog very much. it’s definitely my favorite. but you must do what you must do! you made it to let off some steam and laugh at all the randomness of hello kitty. if it’s not going to be fun for you (or your wife) then it’s worth it to let it go.
i will definitely be keeping tabs (in a total non creepy stalker way) with your new blog because despite whatever your new will be about i’m sure it will be interesting and funny cos that’s just how you write. i wish you both luck.
I am a huge Hello Kitty fan and I do not find this site degrading. I take it in the spirit of fun in which it was created. Shame on those people who saw fit to trouble your wife like that.
As a ‘real’ fan of the feline that you fear, I would say that they disgraced her farther than you ever could because it is obvious that your love your wife very much since you are actually very supportive of her hobby. Kitty would not want to cause trouble in such a relationship (it certainly hasn’t hurt her bottom line one bit!)
In my opinion, the best olive branch you could offer your wife would be to post where Hello Kitty fans could purchase these items that torment you so. I am sure that Sanrio would like the free advertising.
I’m calling BS on it!! MHKH is just trying to move his time to his new website. Noboby scouted out Mrs. HKH’s e-mail to save her from this horrible Blog. It’s BS!
As a Hello Kitty fan, I beg you and her to keep this blog alive, I love it.
I’m sitting at work eating lunch out of my Hello Kitty lunch box and drinking water out of my Hello Kitty water bottle.
I’m not obsessed with Hello Kitty, but I think she’s cute and happy.
And, I LOVE your blog. I think it’s incredibly funny. I share your posts with coworkers often.
So, I guess what I’m saying is, it’s possible to like Hello Kitty and see the humor in the stunning amount of commercialization of the image.
Good luck. If this blog isn’t able to continue, I’ll be really sad!
I’m a Hello Kitty fan and I love this blog! It’s relatable and I can see it’s a great way for you to let off some steam. I have yet to see anything that is harmful to anyone, if anything it helps with your sanity. This is my plea to keep this blog alive!!!!! It’s great fun and it makes some of us examine our own HK addictions. Thank you for always having some words of wisdom
don’t be such a pushover. you have your opinion of hello kitty and she has hers. she needs to learn to respect that you don’t like hell-o kitty and you should respect she does. And turning this blog into hello kitty heaven is the STUPIDEST idea EVER!!!
I have never been offended (or even been in danger of being offended) by anything Mr HKH has written on this site, until now. For someone to email a stranger and defame her husband, and cause such tension between them, is going way beyond the bounds of propriety.
So, they don’t agree with your opinion? Well, boohoo. I don’t agree with people folding back the jackets of books as they are reading, but so far I have managed to control myself. Everyone is entitled to express their opinion, and this blog is a harmless, entertaining way of doing that. I don’t even remember how I stumbled upon this site, but I have always enjoyed it. I see it as a way for Mr. HKH to vent his frustration, but I also enjoy the social commentary on the pointless consumerism of our society.
Viva HKHell!
One more thing.
Could people PLEASE stop posting about how Mr HKH is pussywhipped, etc. How can anyone comment on his relationship with his wife based on the information given in this site, or even think they have the right to? Mr HKH has shown many times that he loves his wife, so what right do a load of strangers have to disparage that?
I kind of taken by the response here, we are talking about having out little entertainment at MR HKH marriage expense. The big problem is the premise of this blog is a response to his wives’ obsession rather that absurdity in Hello Kitty Fandom. I bet she feels this is more of a personal attack. I hope he can change things first leave his wife out of this or he need to stop, it not worth a divorce.
Acton
An obsessed Hello Kitty Fan and enjoying every minute of it.
I think a lot of your readers come here to see Hello Kitty items they don’t already have. I know that I do. Then I become determined to find said goods to purchase. So, I think you are helping Hello Kitty more than hurting her. Maybe your wife can start the hello kitty heaven blog, and tell everyone where to find your hello kitty hell items. =p
If you stopped doing HKH then I would never get to see wonderful things like today’s HK Death Cake or HK Burning from last year. First person was right—just get her the HK Heaven domain and everyone will be happy. And it’s a whole lot easier than wasting a room for a Hello Kitty S&M suite in your own house. Though if it makes you both happy…….
it’s your blog.. you can do what you want to. f-em if they don’t like it, they don’t HAVE to read it.
Please do NOT stop this blog!!! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Hello Kitty, I sleep in HK pj’s, I am in med school and spent a ridiculous amount of dough on a HK pc (which is old and slow and cannot be used for patient care planning, only for taking to class to take notes on, so I had to buy another pc) and I use my HK flash drive for my class notes which in essence entrusts the most important part of my life to HK…and this blog is so cute and funny…it in NO WAY demeans HK, and this is coming from someone who spends ALL my time studying and working and I rarely leave comments, but I love this blog BECAUSE I truly love Hello Kitty…please don’t stop, it is not demeaning, it is a great compliment to HK, who is cute and fun and classy and secretly LOVES all the attention.
Remind her how many email syou get from people wanting to BUY things they see on your site, and then doubly remind her this is probably a small fraction of the total number of people who get inspired to go on their own and buy some of the gear featured.
just to add to the others to say i read this with my HK loving girlfriend, and we both love it, it is not derogatory to your wife or her hk obsession or hk in general.
keep up the good word.
I see kittyhell.com in a neutral light — it provides a rich database of kittified items, gadgets and other stuff (costumes, cosplay, you name it), not only for entertainment, but also as a reference, as a list of which HK items exist(ed). It is of good value in any case.
Tell her the truth – that the sane Hello Kitty Fanatics (the vast majority) use your site as a shopping list! ^_^
Oh my friend: please, please do not go away. Can I tell you something? I have never spent a second of my life thinking one good or bad thought about Hello Kitty. (I feel sort of silly even saying that… DO people really, ah, think about ‘her’? That hurts my brain a little to imagine…) So as not to lie, I will say that whilst in China adopting my babies, I remember seeing HK items in the stores and noting their innate, cartoonish “cuteness.” However, I never seemed to be intercepting any special telepathic messages from any of them while I was shopping, so maybe I’m just not one of the chosen ones… who knows.
But I digress. What I want to say is that I may not know Hello Kitty, but I do know funny, and you, my friend, are funny. I literally stumbled on this blog accidentally about two hours ago, and I’ve been sitting here ever since holding my sides with laughter at your take on life with Kitty. I find not a note of meanness in it: in fact, it feels to me like a very healthy take on what could be a tedious daily grind for someone not entirely enamored of the cute little beast.
I live with a funny husband: he writes for the Onion, has written for the New Yorker, Bill Maher, and other humor outlets. As I said, I know funny. Through our ups and downs, we have always LAUGHED. His take on life usually cracks me up, and often, I’m his side kick. I get a kick out of it. I don’t take offense. It’s funny. HE’S funny. I appreciate it. I have a sneaking suspicion, my friend, that if you let this outlet go, your married life will lose some balance. DON’T DO IT. She has Kitty: you have your blog. It’s a beautiful pairing.
I read your blog for one reason: entertainment.
It’s fun for me to see the crazy things that come out with hello kitty on it. However, a blog could easily be done with other icons. Have you ever seen how much Star Trek junk is out there? Or Star Wars?
If anything, this blog has created in me a heightened Hello Kitty awareness that I didn’t have before. Sure, I smile and laugh when I see a hello kitty product somewhere, and I think of this blog. But think about it. Smiling, laughing. A new post on Hello Kitty Hell always makes my day.
And now I see Hello Kitty wherever I go. o.0
Perhaps you could buy some software for your wife and the other critics to download to their computers. I hear Life 1.0 is pretty good for being a version 1 software. It uninstalls obsession 9.3, pathetic 4.5, and nosy 3.2, thereby cleaning up the system and making it run much more smoothly.
Please continue blowing off that steam and having fun with Hello Kitty. I was introduced to you through my fiancee, who is a major HK fanatic and she really enjoys reading your posts. And right afterward, we head to the local Sanrio store for some retail therapy.
Tell her that they’re taking you way to seriously, that you enjoy this blog, that you love her and would never lie to her about something she cares about so much, and enforce that this is an innocent way to let off steam?
People need to stop taking the posts so seriously it’s suppose to be in good fun. Don’t close up the blog
No, don’t abandon HKH. You’re fighting the good fight against invasive corporate presences. Besides, my girlfriend collects the stuff, and it’s better for me to come on here and laugh than to fight the urge to take a bat to her collection.
I’m sure your wife will understand that a few misguided fanatics are misinterpreting the intent of your blog and it is in no way an attack on her.
Keep the blog the way it is. I love seeing the crazy stuff. I love Hello Kitty, but not to the extent your wife does. BTW..I would love to see the healed art of the girl who had the scarification done.
Your wife needs to stop listening to the fanatics. I know your blog was originally intended to vent your frustrations about “the kitty”, but if anything, it has helped other kitty fanatics.
I look at your blog for new Hello Kitty items….to annoy my husband with
Tell her that the blog is helping, not hurting, the kitty fans and to ignore the idiots who email her.
Keep up the good work…..I mean, keep up the kitty bashing..hehe.
I echo what many people have said already. I am a HK fan and i love you blog. I tell all of my friends who are HK fans to read your blog. Your wit is a rare talent and it would be a shame to lose that.
OH.. speaking of which, there’s something i’ve always meant to send you that shows how evil that feline is. Sending by email
I love Hello Kitty…nevertheless, I am not above poking a little fun at myself. I drag my boyfriend into the NYC Sanrio store, but I still visit this blog. Additionally, I actually think it is a rather good way to find out about interesting Hello Kitty items. Tell your wife that true fans will ignore criticism and take away the good from this blog!
i LOVE the HK. love, Love, LOVE. its been an addiction since i was a bitty lil girl. and i LOVE your blog! NEVER STOP!
I love hello kitty……..I’m not obsessed but if I had the money to be obsessed I would be! Lol….but this site is pretty cool…everyone has an obsession with something.. For example my boyfriend is obsessed with trucks…..and I love hello kitty so we all have our weird little hobbies n such. This site is entertaining and also very informative to the many hello kitty items out there.
i really hope you’re not abandoning ship here. i just found this place and i LOVE it. the hello kitty death cake will be posted on my blog tomorrow. everyone needs a way to vent, there are worse things you could be doing with this “frustration”
also, like many of the other posts have said, you’re not really causing harm to the rediculous name of hello kitty, but adding fuel to the fire.
a lawnmower?!?! a tram!?!? really? qtf?
I LOVE this site. I am a Hello Kitty fan but I feel there is a limit to what should be Hello Kitty-ized.
You could argue with your wife that your site actually promotes HK because I’ve found things on here I didn’t know existed.
I love Hello Kitty, having lived in Japan at the beginning of Heisei, and this blog is a lot of fun. I own my fair share of items, but honestly some of the stuff out there is way overboard. One word people: b a l a n c e ! Tell okaa-san to lighten up about the blog. If this is the worst thing you do, then she’s a very lucky woman and she shouldn’t listen to people trying to BLEEP up her marriage to you! Gambatte-ne!
I like hello kitty I guess maybe a little, but I find some of your blogs ridiculously funny. Why in the heck did interwebers think they should try to screw up your marriage.
this blog is not degrading to her or kitty, if anything it just shows that the only one being degraded is you, being forced to live in hkh. no male, no STRAIGHT male could stand being bombarded from everywhere with pink and sugar cute. it just shows what a paitent considerate guy you are just to put up with it, and this blog is a truly justifiable way to vent the frustration. im female and all this hk madness kinda scares me.
as for the future of this blog. id strongly advise against terminating it. becouse for every fanatic there are three anti fanatics that find some bit of joy from your rantings and should it disapear only to be replaced by a p.r. site for the feline, her your wifes email box would become a less friendly place.
she should just be happy with her hk collection and let you have you own space.
I love Hello Kitty and I enjoy your blog. It’s all in good fun. Don’t change.
Hello Kitty is meant to inspire joy, not divorce. This is a sad situation indeed.
If the time and efforts required to maintain the blog are seriously interferring with family or job, then maybe it’s time to consider adding a volunteer assist for the grunt work.
I personally would consider it heavenly to live in a Hello Kitty sleeping bag accompanied by laptop, broadband connection, and a huge bank account to acquire more worthless pink gadgets, Kitty-related or not. Of course this philosophy also means I’m in need of serious counseling and medication in a lock-down facility.
Since you appear to have a wife, a life, a familiy, etc, etc, who are in need of your attention, I truly hope there’s a compromise out there that eases the pressure on the Mrs. and you while still providing Hello Kitty Hell news that so many of us look forward to. In other words, I hope there’s a way to have our pink cake and eat it too.
As much as I love HK, I’ve always been ambivalent about the cuteness, HKH makes it much more palatable, please keep up the good work!
hey, mr. hkh, ur blog rocks, so don’t give it up!
i agree with scannie, make a hk heaven blog. ur wife and darlene can totally partner up, there’ll be way too much hk to go around, she’ll b happy, and u too!
Have your wife run the kittyheaven.com website, you continue with yours. The battle between the two of you increases visitor interest, increases page views…….
If you discontinue this blog you’re out of your mind…
I love this blog! I do not hate HK but I do understand the overdose that can happen. I have been in the Sanrio stores and feel like I am being force fed cotton candy every second I am in there.
Your venting is not a hate for HK as much as a “I can’t believe they make ____!”
Your posts are also VERY funny and expressive.
Now if you made a HelloKittySucks page yes I would say that is wrong, but kitty hell is absolutely perfect. You are surrounded by these things and you have no idea what tomorrow will place on your doorstep. I think it very appropriate therefore to be called kittyhell.
Your wife is listening to those she does not know. She knows you much better than any of us. If this was a real issue she would have said something a long time ago.
It is also perfect that this is a man’s site. The women tend to deify HK while men read about muscle cars. This site is a perfect reaction to the onslaught of HK items being pumped out as fast as manufacturing processes allow, with no end in site.
Your page is perfect and adored. Don’t change a thing.
Stick to your guns! There has to be a counterbalance to all those Hello Kitty crazies out there. Do whatever it takes.
Start by marking your territory around any computers you have. If your wife accuses you of peeing all over the place tell her Hello Kitty did it.
Adjust your computer system to reject words like “Cute” and “adorable”. You’ll have to be resourceful at every turn!!
I just checked out your other blog. It confirmed my suspicion that you are a very nice guy and your wife is lucky to have such a sweet , indulgent husband. I wish you both much happiness.
And I hope those people stop bugging her because I would hate for Hello Kitty Hell to end.
Hello Kitty Hell is one of the best blogs I read regularly.
1. You are funny! You have a great sense of humor.
2. I love Hello Kitty , if I need surgery, a doctor with a Hello Kitty helmet and Hello Kitty scalpel would be chosen if one exists.
You have inspired me to give more compliments and this comment is your compliment. Thank you so much for providing such a fun blog.
I don’t contribute to many causes except for families of fallen heroes and Loren Coleman’s Cryptozoology museum but you have inspired me to take a look and challenge myself to do more.
Hey, you can post all of the ugly weird Hello Kitty stuff you want, you will never dissuade those of us who love the kitty.
But it sure is fun to read and look at Hello Kitty Hell.
Great to read about it from a man’s perspective as well.
I would have never known about the Hello Kitty vibrator if it wasn’t featured here.
Someone named Hello Kitty Vibrator has over 5000 friends on myspace, myself included.
So please keep up the good work. Inspiring us to be better people and giving us an alternative outlet for Hello Kitty fanaticism.
Love your wit! Hello Kitty fans are not all sappy sweet, we are smart ,we appreciate sarcasm and we think cynics are cute. Because we know deep down that you are jealous of Hello Kitty and sooner or later she will completely rule the world.
Thank you so much,
Bambi
I love this site. You have introduced me to more Hello Kitty stuff on this site!
why do all these fanatics take this so PERSONALLY? really, they should get lives, and stop reading a blog called hello kitty HELL if they love her so much. IT’S JUST A CARTOON CAT!!!!!! FIND SOMETHING WORTHWHILE TO BITCH ABOUT!!!!
Hey I just started subscribing yesterday!!
You can’t end it now. If you do, please wait
a year before deleting it so I can look through
all the archives.
By the way I collect Hello Kitty figures and i
think the idea behind Hello Kitty Hell is funny.
All i know is that you, inventor of completely unnecessary disturbing and stupid website, are an idiot. And by “idiot” i mean that your website hello kitty “hell” is the biggest waste of time I have ever seen somebody spend their life doing. I was actually shocked to hear you had a wife, which implied that maybe you do leave your computer and interact with other, maybe semi-normal human beings, therefore proving me wrong in thinking that you are equivalent to a 2 legged donkey, good for absolutely nothing. So, you are just an idiot. Also, your idiot hands and arms extend a bear hug to any person that has ever shown suuport of you or any of your useless thoughts. In case you do not understand, all your “fans” are also idiots, maybe even more so than you.
do NOT give up this blog!
Please, I have turned so many onto this blog, because we actually adore HK AND have a sense of humor!!!!!!
please, Mrs. HKH, don’t listen to the fanatics!
I agree, give your wife a blog of her own.
Then advise her that people on the internet are crazy and stupid and that one man’s dislike for the kitty is not going to hurt the Sanrio franchise in the least bit considering they’ve got MILLIONS of life long fans that will keep buying for as long as they keep producing the merchandise. That and that she’s probably being convinced of this by people in the 12-20 age range since most of your die hard dissenters seem to have the literacy of a middle school student.
In nicer terms of course.
We all like you Mr. HKH and we even like the Mrs. HKH because without her you wouldn’t have made this site and we wouldn’t have some place the laugh about the silly things people will buy if it has an adorable character on it.
That or offer to buy her some HK item she really wants in exchange for being able to keep the blog.
Im a big hello kitty fan, but you cant end kitty hell! its so damn kool. plus heaven is for wimps and posers.
Its fun to rat on something ud die for, for once ur life.