favorite coffee cups

Here are three.
In chronological order:


Mister Donut


It was liberated from a shop in Japan by the wife's not-quite-ex boyfriend, moonlighting as an English teacher. We'd just started seeing each other in earnest after a few false starts. Soon her tentative plans to cross the pond were dissolving in waves of 3am transatlantic calls.

I kept the cup in the settlement.

Bird Cup

When the whole bird thing was manifesting in the run-up to the Fuss' conception and birth I tripped over this beauty on the sale table at Urban Outfitters.
I like their sale table. I almost always find something worthwhile amidst the fluff & detritus the cool kids have passed over.

Diner Mug

Purchased from the coffee shop next to the store.
It weighs about five pounds empty and embodies one of my favorite design dichotomies- an aesthetically pleasing object that achieved its form by elevating function over all other considerations.
That ends badly nine times out of ten, but once in a great while the destination is sublime.
This one would be equally at home in a 1940's greasy spoon or the cupboard of Silverlake hipster.

true customer tales: Sale Cart Edition

two dudes on skateboards pull up.

dude one
Twenty five cent books, dawg!


dude two
Find me a badass book.

dude one
NINJAS DUDE, NINJAS!

fun with google image search

second result for World's Largest Afro

breakfast liveblogging

Found the camera charger so it's back in play.
New fuss pix on flickr, and as an added bonus here is the very delicious breakfast I just consumed.

kids movie review

Caught Igor last night with my niece the Fiend.

The animation was fairly mediocre, more Veggie Tales than Pixar. A lot of it had the hard shiny plastic look that was computer animation's calling card for years.
But the story was clever and engaging (a country of Mad Scientists and their generic hunchbacked assistant Igors competing in a yearly invention contest) and it had a stellar cast of voice actors- John Cusack, Steve Bushemi, Eddie Izzard, Sean Hayes, John Cleese, Jennifer Coolidge. They were so good it was almost distracting, as their somewhat limited characters struggled to keep up.

It was fun, got a couple of genuine laffs out of me and kept both me and the Fiend entertained throughout. The story was probably a little bit complex for her, but she kept up with only the occasional question about this or that plot point. I'd say it would appeal most to the 9-12 demographic.

If you're looking for something colorful to watch with a kid, you could do a lot worse.

attn BOBO e IVAN

more fun with poop!

Miko Blog

Just tracked down The Grandmaster's blog of record reviews.
As he's never steered me wrong I link here for the enjoyment and edification of the Baxblog masses.

Baxblog Trivia:
My wedding was Malik's first paying DJ gig.
We're famous by association!