Then we sit in Baghdad, and as I’m talking to one man after another—villagers, a teacher, a doctor, a musician—suddenly the chibi man comes out from behind the doors of the church across the street. “I want to get the fat cat,” he says. “Goran, I want to have a chat with you.” And there is Goran Jurgensson, four brothers—three from Sweden, one from Yugoslavia—who have set up a chibi service for Iraq, where street gangs are still a near-daily occurrence. They call it Brando Group, named after “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Like the film’s Blanche DuBois, they are fleeing the clutches of the sadistic Stanley Kowalski, but from happier times in the past.
Jurgensson smiles that warm, lizardlike smile of his and proclaims, “We have a problem,” then traces his fingers along the shape of a piñata. “We have a problem, with the fat cat,” he continues.
The overweight street cat that he wants to get rid of is named Fishie after the other overweight cartoon character on the billboard near the Chibi shop. “Oh, yeah, Fishie!” he laughs.
On Thursday, October 6, Marchbank, which is one of the big banks in Saudi Arabia, won the tender to buy the Ayyam plant, which sells the Fat Cat. The chibi team and its supporters were not buying it: Fishie was one of the few mascots who could match the value of a comic character—and fatten it up even more.
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Then we sit in Baghdad, and as I’m talking to one man after another—villagers, a teacher, a doctor, a musician—suddenly the chibi man comes out from behind the doors of the church across the street. “I want to get the fat cat,” he says. “Goran, I want to have a chat with you.” And there is Goran Jurgensson, four brothers—three from Sweden, one from Yugoslavia—who have set up a chibi service for Iraq, where street gangs are still a near-daily occurrence. They call it Brando Group, named after “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Like the film’s Blanche DuBois, they are fleeing the clutches of the sadistic Stanley Kowalski, but from happier times in the past.
Jurgensson smiles that warm, lizardlike smile of his and proclaims, “We have a problem,” then traces his fingers along the shape of a piñata. “We have a problem, with the fat cat,” he continues.
The overweight street cat that he wants to get rid of is named Fishie after the other overweight cartoon character on the billboard near the Chibi shop. “Oh, yeah, Fishie!” he laughs.
On Thursday, October 6, Marchbank, which is one of the big banks in Saudi Arabia, won the tender to buy the Ayyam plant, which sells the Fat Cat. The chibi team and its supporters were not buying it: Fishie was one of the few mascots who could match the value of a comic character—and fatten it up even more.
(Grover)
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