{"id":2082,"date":"2012-04-12T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T20:20:47","slug":"listening-post-a-bunch-of-mugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/12\/listening-post-a-bunch-of-mugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: A bunch of mugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NCPR mug museum<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve been adding a few historical items to our new Facebook timeline, so my eye was drawn to an item I walk past many times a day without noticing. In Membership Director June Peoples’ office is a kind of mug museum, featuring the (if not iconic, at least logo-bearing) mugs\u00a0 that NCPR has had made over the years. Three decades and three different generations of station logo are represented.<\/p>\n

As with all good museum displays, the interesting part is what it says about the culture over the course of time. The older mugs up top are all from a simpler era, of modest size and four-square, except for the “Road Warrior” model, made so bottom-heavy you could wear it for a hat and still not spill a drop. Our post 9-11 era latte mug is the size of a sap bucket and is midnight black, suited to grim times and round-the-clock news consumption. As the “oughts” wore on, we turned hyperlocal, featuring artists of the region, then locavore, with a terra cotta flower pot mug that could hold a planting season’s supply of “mud.”<\/p>\n

Next came the bistro phase, elegant rising shapes designed to hold, one supposes, the favorite locally-roasted, fairly-traded organic blends. Then a retro move back to manly no-nonsense styles, followed by an arty outlier, a trompe l’oeil paper-cup travel mug, rendered in insulated stoneware with a silicone top. And finally we come to this year’s offering–a favorite of mine–a plain old-fashioned china diner mug, thick walled\u00a0 for leisurely consumption, and so sturdy you could drop it off the roof. It’s a practical pick for a down economy, but sporting an optimistic fireball red glaze.<\/p>\n

I may be reading too much into this, but then I do most of my reading with a half-full mug somewhere nearby. Whatever your style of cup or coffee (you can even drink tea if you must)–I hope you take it with a little radio on the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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