Comments on: The Significant Objects Mug Mug

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:54:34 +0000

PS: You know that ridiculous “LET’S BREAK TOGETHER” mug I bought for the project? (What does that phrase mean?) It’s the only object I’ve purchased under the auspices of shopping for SO that I’ve decided to keep for myself. I’m drinking tea out of it now.

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:52:28 +0000

Maybe our logo should be a smashed mug?

By: Rob Walker

Rob Walker — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:17:06 +0000

That’s cool! Interestingly, just hours after you posted this comment, my wife smashed my SOMM to bits. She says it was an accident. In any case, an interesting turn of events, given that there is a smashed mug in the project’s roots. I’m tempted to try to sell the shards on eBay.

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:52:05 +0000

Rob, I took my Significant Objects Mug mug with me to my family get-together at Xmas this year — it was greatly admired.

By: Rob Walker

Rob Walker — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:27:55 +0000

Thanks about the book encouragement, it’s something we’d love to do, but can’t really comment about it at the moment. It’s helpful to see evidence of an audience. We obviously think it would be an amazing book.

By: Laura Strachan

Laura Strachan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:20:48 +0000

I second the idea of a Significant Objects short story collection, complete with photos. And while I’m sure you have any number of potential agents at your disposal, I’d love to sell this. LS

By: Paula Newman

Paula Newman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:39:15 +0000

Any chance of a significant objects book of short stories, with pictures? I’d buy it.

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:16:49 +0000

Wonderful writing was always a secret agenda of the Significant Objects project… but we had no idea just how good the stories would be!

By: Paula Newman

Paula Newman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:08:32 +0000

Since I had been hoping for a Significant Objects mug, I immediately ordered one from Zazzle when you announced they were available. I customized mine with a picture of the Pink Horse on one side and on the other, the paragraph from Kate Bernheimer’s story in which the narrator describes how her youngest daughter found the Pink Horse. Thank you for this project. I know your objective is to analyze how objects attain significance, but what I love about it is the wonderful writing that has resulted from it.