Mugs

I have taken to choosing mugs as my “wow, I like this graphic / want to remember this place / want to show of my fanboyishness about this book / movie / TV show” icon of choice. Used to be t-shirts, but they have two big problems. (1) It’s way too easy to get too many t-shirts (just glance in my closet some time, please don’t), and (2) t-shirts, if you wear them, wear out. Then you have to get rid of them, which is sorrowful, or they go into the gardening / knock-around t-shirt drawer, which also quickly spirals into “old man living alone found crushed under pile of old t-shirts” proportions.

So I’ve changed to mugs, since they usually don’t fade much, they are useful, you can put them into peoples’ hands (or let them search through themselves), they don’t take up much space, and are generally much more durable (Jackie’s chortling maniacally right now).

We have a lot of mugs in the basement, but here’s what we have up in the kitchen cabinet at the moment. Consider this one of those personal “surveys of stuff” that either reveals all sorts of stuff about Margie and my psyche, or else is utterly boring and you should go on to the next post.

Or, maybe, I should make this one of those “meme” thangs — Besides the stock coffee cups in your dinnerware, what sort of coffee mugs do you have sitting around your house? 

• Far Side “Fat Woman Being Sucked into a Candy Store”
• Hellboy BPRD logo.
• The Tiger that Katherine drew for her art class last fall.
• IX
• Les Miserables (from the UK)
• Stonehenge (from the UK)
• Reduced Shakespeare Company “I Love My Willy” (from the UK)
• Dilbert “Supermodel”
• Dork Tower “Igor ‘Huzzah!'”
• Mars (part of a series of planet mugs I got from the Field Museum in the late 80s)
• London Transport “Mind the Gap” (from the UK)
• Cheshire Cat (vanishes when the cup is empty, except for the smile)
• Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, with sheep logo
• ZEBRA ALERT!
• Starbucks “Cymru / Wales” (from the UK)
• Starbucks Skyline Series One “Denver”
• Starbucks “Colorado”
• Starbucks “Los Angeles”
• Starbucks City Scenes “Los Angeles”
• 9 Chickweed Lane “What is Love?”
• Foglio “Ask Me About My Evil Plan”
• Foglio “Winslow ‘Hi!'”
• Foglio “… is a BAD PLAN!”
• Foglio “Heterodyne Coffee”
• Foglio “Don’t Make Me Come Over There!”
• Scenic Colorado
• Scenic Los Angeles*
• EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival 2006 (shaped like a garden pot)
• Disney – Pooh Drawing Guide
• Disney – Tigger Drawing Guide
• Disney “Stitch Hawaiian Coffee”
• Disney “Tink Fairyland English Tea”
• Disney “Tink Walt Disney World”
• Disney “Many Faces of Tink”
• Get Fuzzy “My and the Shirt’s Nerdnesses Stack”

*Yes, Colorado/Denver and California/LA mugs are pretty standard gifts-from-Dave’s-business-trips items.