dingdong

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ryan was reading a book awhile back about japanese folks and their obsession with "cute". for example, porn mags with schoolgirls as the female object, hello kitty fans older than 9, grown men with teddy bears...

the book went on to say that the reason for this is somewhat of an arrested development - a sort of second childhood to make up for the fact that so many asian students are pushed so hard that they don't ever get a decent childhood.

it is the same here. "oh, teacher... sunday is my favorite day. my mom lets me PLAY for an HOUR on sundays!!!" - and i wish that was a joke.

anyways... asian kids often don't get to fully experience childhood, toys, the "cute" years. the asian obsession with cute - and the fear of any dog larger than a squirrel (i remember walking sasha for derek and all the middle school kids - even the "tough guys" screaming in terror) is something that simply drives me fucking mental. just buy a gun, eat some raw meat, read some camille paglia and let's play cards.

there's this "cute" girl in one of my classes. i'd rather just call her a bitch but she's fuckin' 7 years old and hasn't come to realize that her mother is grooming her to be a bitch. she is obsessed with this one hello kitty character "cinnamoroll". a sort of morphed quasi-dog character with a tail that actually looks like a cinnamon roll.

ryan and i started doing these mutated versions of cinnamoroll because it 1. disturbed the kids who needed to be disturbed and 2. made the cool kids laugh. the idea was to take the head and then replace it with a different body. here are the results:

first off, the only one i didn't show my students... CINNAMAPIMP!

of course, the book is better than the movie, but monsignor cinnamapriest is still a little frothy at the mouth... MARY MADGALENE WASN'T A PROSTITUTE?!?

the korean in the word balloon is "aaiishi" which just means "ah, shit!" or "rats!"

and it wouldn't be an art project unless norwegian black metal was somehow represented... imagine that those flames are a shade of red, this is a photocopy.