About Me
- Ali
- Once a zoologist/ecologist with a particular interest in the kangaroo family and endangered mammals. Currently an editor for a publishing company. Always a Christian.
Links
Some blogs I read
- 168 Hours
- 22 Words
- another something
- Craig's Blog
- desiringGod Blog
- EQUIP book club
- Girl Talk
- Gordon Cheng's blog
- I'm ramblin' again
- in all honesty
- Just in CASE
- Karen
- Nothing New Under The Sun
- Practical Theology for Women
- Radical Womanhood
- Rebecca Blogs
- Shackled Thoughts
- something more seemed promised
- St Eutychus
- storms dressed as stars
- The Blogging Parson
- the fountainside
- The Giraffe's Pen
- The Other Blog
- The Pipers
- The Procrastinatrix
- The Purple Cellar
- The Sola Panel
- To live is Christ
- Vanishing Point
18 comments:
cool hey. my work mate has one. i'd like to steal it.
Yeah, they are cool! $20 though - yikes. I might see if you can buy them from anywhere else. A shop in Newtown called "Better Read than Dead" also sometimes has cool literary mugs.
yea my friend got hers from 'better read..'--same price though:(
you could buy 2 actual penguin books for that. You may even be able to buy a real penguin for that..
I had an Elizabeth Bennet one but my coffee would go from hot to cold for no reason and then back to hot again and would often just disappear. It would then return later and expect everything to just be normal with total disregard to my emotions or needs.
Ooooh Pete,
I don't know that you are being entirely fair to Elizabeth Bennett, but it sounds like you should ditch whoever is your equivalent and find yourself a nice, constant mug (I mean girl).
Ben,
They are actually $25 in that shop! That's getting up there with a seriously expensive cup.
Ali, it is hard to find a good herione mug let alone a good herione girl. Especially under $25
:). One day Pete, you will find it/her (well, um, maybe, maybe not really). She will be there, left on the shelf, waiting for you to come and choose it/her like it's what you had been looking for in a mug/girl, your whole life. Then it will be worth the price ...
Ali, Thanks for encouraging metaphor. However there is a reason why things are on the shelf and countless others have passed them by. Yet, I enjoy the notion of perhaps seeing the rare beauty and qualities that others do ont see despite the chips and cracks the mug may have. There is a lid for every pot, A Darcy for every Elizabeth and a Gilbert for every Anne. The old Moody blues song 'I know you're out there somewhere' rings true. Alas, I will have to now purchase one of these mugs after all this discussion. It has been a very good whisper marketing campaign. Which classic text to choose though?
Perhaps all that will be needed is to blow away the dust ... and you will reveal a brilliant and untarnished beauty ...
Maybe you could choose Jane Eyre - there was a girl who knew a man's worth. Or there is another one I fancy with the title "The Big Sleep".
Jane Eyre....mmmmm That would make me Edward Rochester and that would be very big shoes to fill. I do not think I am half the man that many females hold him to be. Though I can relate to his attraction to Jane who contradicts the shallow society women he is surrounded by. A little contradiction would be nice in todays world too. I would also need a wife to burn down my house - I often wonder if the song 'Sunny came home' by Shawn Colvin is based on this.. anyway,
perhaps Tanchenka (Tatia) from 'the bronze horseman' would be a good one for me. Or I could just contiune to use the styrofoam cups or $2 Nanna mugs at work. I would be curious to know which mug you would indugle in? Would it say you are in need of a man with a good fortune? I enjoy Russian works so maybe a Dr. Zhivago mug for me or crime and punishment.
Oh, you are right about blowing off the dust. A coin is still the same value wether it is straight from the mint or I have found it on the ground and trodden on. But perhaps it is me that needs the dust removed and I am the one on the shelf looking out.
Well, I confess, I wasn't actually personifying my mugs on first looking, or equating their attributes with any person of desire. So, some of those I saw in the shop which appealed to me were "A Country Life" (H.E. Bates) and "A Room of One's Own" (Virginia Woolf) and of course "Jane Eyre", because that is an all-time favourite, and you are correct, Rochester is a high bar. But perhaps I should be going for something like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" or "My Man Jeeves" (whoever Jeeves happened to me) or "Man and Superman" - or wait! you can get a deckchair that says "A Man of Property" or a bag that says "Pearls and Men". That must be it ...
Hey, get the whole set! It would make a great talking point when you have people over for meals. Or they will just think you are a nerd and talk about you behind your back. Since they don't make any mugs for modern day titles, heriones or female characters that I just find cute, I will have to purchase Jo from Little Women or maybe Anna Karenin.
Oh, you don't seriously want Anna Karenin. I don't like her, and she is not a woman of noble character. Jo is a much better choice.
Well, I have my set of 6 picked out you see, one in each colour that they have going, because colour is important.
(You seem to know a strange amount of Anne of Green Gables ...)
Colour co-ordinated... very melancholy. Do you have a problem with Anne of Green Gables? Do you feel threatened? Insecure? Believe it or not there are guys out there that are well read, educated and have an appreciation of literature and films, like to discuss the human condition and plight of characters etc. And yes I still love my coopers pale ale beer, BBQ's, footy and cricket and pumping weights.. I did not find literature, it found me. I needed an escapism due to my upbringing. But we won't dwell there. I would much rather tell about how I imagine myself as I am sure you would find that much more interesting.
No, I just want to be Anne of Green Gables.
That's all really quite impressive! Yes, well, blogs and their comments seem to be the place to either bare your soul to the anonymous listener or let your imaginary self live.
You don't seem the kind of person to smash your slate over a boy's head or give your best friend alcohol instead of cordial. My soul need no bareth and my feet are planted in reality so don't worry Ali with an 'i'.
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