An Archangel Called Ivan
Dec. 15th, 2016 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyAustralia's word of the year has been announced. It's actually two words: democracy sausage. It's a sausage that you eat when you go to vote. We're not a sophisticated people. Every news item mentioning this has illustrated it with footage from this year's federal election, in which the Opposition Leader bites a sausage in the middle instead of starting at the end like a normal person. And that's why he lost the election. (Although it's not as weird as our former Prime Minister eating a raw onion like an apple.)
A few months ago I was in Spotlight (a craft chain store), and on the way to the checkouts I had to pass the sale shelves. One shelf had a white ceramic trinket dish with an owl on it. I had no need for a white ceramic owl trinket dish, but it was the only one, and it was so dusty and unloved looking I bought it.
Today I was in the supermarket and I went down the seasonal promotion aisle, which is all Christmas stuff right now. Amidst all the baubles and whatnot there was a mug. Just one mug. A sort of bear with a scarf, twice as big as a normal mug. It had such a hopeful expression on its little face. But I have no need of giant bear mugs, so I passed it by.
A few aisle later I realised I'd forgotten something, so I had to go back down that aisle. This time I noticed that the giant bear mug with the hopeful face really was the only mug there. It didn't even have a price label on the shelf like all the other things. But I have no need of giant bear mugs, so I passed it by.
Then I spent the rest of my shopping trip brooding over that mug, hoping some other person would appreciate its hopeful little face. But who would that be? Who else would anthropomorphise a mug as much as me?
So I bought it. Look at its hopeful little face!
Apparently I am a sucker for lonely ceramics.
A few months ago I was in Spotlight (a craft chain store), and on the way to the checkouts I had to pass the sale shelves. One shelf had a white ceramic trinket dish with an owl on it. I had no need for a white ceramic owl trinket dish, but it was the only one, and it was so dusty and unloved looking I bought it.
Today I was in the supermarket and I went down the seasonal promotion aisle, which is all Christmas stuff right now. Amidst all the baubles and whatnot there was a mug. Just one mug. A sort of bear with a scarf, twice as big as a normal mug. It had such a hopeful expression on its little face. But I have no need of giant bear mugs, so I passed it by.
A few aisle later I realised I'd forgotten something, so I had to go back down that aisle. This time I noticed that the giant bear mug with the hopeful face really was the only mug there. It didn't even have a price label on the shelf like all the other things. But I have no need of giant bear mugs, so I passed it by.
Then I spent the rest of my shopping trip brooding over that mug, hoping some other person would appreciate its hopeful little face. But who would that be? Who else would anthropomorphise a mug as much as me?
So I bought it. Look at its hopeful little face!
Apparently I am a sucker for lonely ceramics.