Pissy

MUG: Chinese made, imprinted in the USA, designed in Texas by PMSUMMER/creative.

COFFEE: Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian Peaks coffee, light-medium roast. Beans delivered to my door. Very. Good. Coffee. Still.

NOTES: Que es arte? Kunst = Kapital.

Wake Up Music

MUG: Dundoon fine bone china, made in England.

COFFEE: Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian Peaks coffee, light-medium roast. Beans delivered to the Amazon Lock Box around the corner and down the street. Excellent coffee for a pensioner.

NOTES: A custom AAM traditional straight sided mug with a flare at the top. Fine Bone China, made in England by Dunoon specially for AAM.

CAPACITY: 0.3L          HEIGHT: 87mm          DIAMETER: 85mm

Skilled craftsmen and rigorous quality checking is the key to Dunoon’s philosophy of producing the highest quality mugs, well designed in both shape and pattern and manufactured with the greatest care for the discerning customer.

Dunoon uses a high quality Fine Bone China clay from Cornwall, South West England which contains bone ash to give the mugs translucency, bright whiteness and strength. Dunoon uses local skilled craftsmen for each stage of manufacture, many of whom have worked for the company for many years. All Dunoon mugs are inspected and passed with application of the Dunoon shield.

It arrived via Royal Post quite out of the blue. Several months ago, I donated some money the Academy of Ancient Music in honor of their 50th Anniversary Year. The design on the mug (repeated smaller inside the mug) is their logo. I presume this was a thank you gift.

ADDENDUM: I presumed wrong. The mug is a Friendship Token sent to me by my great friend John Lopez (published author, chef, engineer, coffee expert and aficionado, and drummer). Did I mention Great Friend?

Totenkup

MUG: Totenkopf mug, made by Waechstersbach in West Germany. The. Best. Mugs.

COFFEE: Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian Peaks coffee, light-medium roast. Beans delivered to my door. Very Good coffee.

NOTES: Today is (variously) All Hallows' Day, Hallowmas, Feast of All Saints, Feast of All Hallows, Solemnity of All Saints. Take your pick.

MUG: Bass Pro Shops™ Chinese-made 24 ounce double-walled stainless steel, vacuum insulated mug. Cabela's Strata™ camouflage coverage. The 24 ounce capacity is perfect for iced coffee (fill with ice, top with approximately 12 ounces of strong coffee).

COFFEE: Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian Peaks coffee, light-medium roast, Kosher certified. Excellent coffee.

NOTES: The camouflage pattern makes the Bass Pro Shops logo almost invisible. I slapped my new Covenant Anglican sticker on it as a form of Coffee-time Evangelism. I'm right-handed.

Safety First

 

MUG: IGLOO, a Chinese-made 13.5 ounce double-walled stainless steel, vacuum insulated mug. Nice hi-viz powder coated yellow. The mug's lip rolls down into the interior for a very lip-friendly design. Another step in IGLOO's on-going war with cross-state rival YETI.

COFFEE: Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian Peaks coffee, light-medium roast. Excellent coffee.

NOTES: Save the planet. "The Earth-Friendly Thirst Quencher. With durable, BPA-free stainless steel, you can endlessly reuse this mug, helping to meaningfully reduce the amount of single-use plastic or EPS/polystyrene foam that end up in the landfill."

Early morning surly tableware

MUG: Sainte-Germaine, a Chinese-made 10 ounce cup from Sur la Table. Conical shape, fairly thick ceramaric cup with nice lip and finger feel.

COFFEE: Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian Peaks coffee, light-medium roast. Beans delivered to my door. Excellent coffee.

NOTES: This mug is from the Sur La Table Collection of what I presume to be reproductions of, or homages to, European cafe dining ware. Sainte-Germaine is a Paris neighborhood famous for artistes, intellectuals, ex-patriot cultural refugees, bistros, and the left bank of the Seine River.

In Memorium

MUG: M Ware coffee mug (made in China), heavy cafe/naval-style mug ('tactical self-defense' weight?).

COFFEE: Colombia Huila, Pitalito, from Barrett's Micro Roast Coffee.

NOTES: While on a trip through parts of West Texas and The Big Empty, I stopped in at Booked Up, Larry McMurtry's bookstore/collection in his hometown of Archer City, Texas. I didn't have time to prowl around the shelves and stacks and tables of the two buildings, but I did have time to swap a couple of stories with the proprietress, and purchase this mug.