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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | December 10, 2009

Powell's Q&A: Sam Stephenson

0 comments By Sam Stephenson

Describe your latest book/project/work. I've been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith for 13 years. My first book (Dream... Continue »

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   The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

   Sam Stephenson and W. Eugene Smith

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wineguy, December 9, 2007 (view all comments by wineguy)
Who "reviews" coffee mugs? Isn't Powell's mainly (?? all??) about books, just books? Outside of some abstruse corner of academe, graduate design school, Japanese tea ceremony and Zen training institute or the applied ceramics research community -- surely there cannot be time, space or interest for reviewing a a coffee mug?

Well, YES, there is time, space and I trust for the discerming, ample interest - so, read on interested ones, all others return to your cheezy styrofoam and paper laminate containers - (oh, and I hope you don't burn your palms too badly, no fair double cupping either, no pain no gain.)

To the main point -- Powells does sell coffee mugs and I am, based on use, excessive coffee drinking, and general experience (too long, and too intimidating to list here) an EXPERT on coffee mugs, cups, crockery, china, and all manner of containers intended for consumption of hot beverages.

So...my vida established and clearly prestigious, I
pronouce without qualification that this mug is the best, the excelsior, the tete du cuvee of coffee mugs.

Don't believe me? Try it. It is well balanced and comfortably fits a thumb (small, medium, or obese)
to the top of a cleverly widened handle - this feature allows thumb and hand to easily carry the weight of a full cup, and thereby achieve exacting control over the entire mug system. The construction is robust - at least 2/5" thick on the sides - it reminds one of those last-a-lifetime mugs in the classic dinners - sipping a late nite coffee over a Formica counter -- a Night Hawks scene - congitating on the state of the world, the need to defer yet again the monthy rent payment, or why Westinghouse still refuses to market the 100,000 hour light bulb (and why wont the CEO return my collect calls?) But, I digress.

The glaze is luxurious, dense, a high gross on the interior and a restrained gaze on the outer cylindar ( impressive yet modest, like the Hummer H2). The color is a highly saturated blue/black. The gaze density and finish fortells endurace enough to brave years of washing -- in organics or polycarbonates, in
stream bed, industrial washer, or happy home sink -- and cheerful resistance to assaults from the coffee chemical family and all water borne particulates.

But, beware, this mug is NOT in the same class as Powells cup #9781135343415 - they are as different as a minor beat angel and St. Michael.

So, attend close all coffee drinkers (and all other hot liquid consumers): A chalice to cradle your obsession is at hand. Three clicks of your mouse, and you CAN be saved. Don't delay.

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9781135676339