Utopian Dreamer Mugs

Utopia - a necessarily restrictive and conformist social structure.

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

Pipe Dream.

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"I don't think I can express what I have to say in just colored paper and glue."

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

Here be dragons.

"I don't like the looks of that!"

"No Frodo, we are still many leagues from Mordor. This is from a wildfire by I-5 west of Bakersfield."

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

"Hey, remember a few days ago, when all this was unacceptable?"

What else is there to wish for?

Early Adopter...Early Opt-Outer

Man has a picture of a rolls on his garage door...the car inside is very different.

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

Real Life/Surreal Life

George Orwell

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

"Where the wild things were."

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

"Mmmm! Bears hibernate in the winter. Cats can hibernate anytime we want!"

Man propelled by love

'I'm designing a robot that'll do my drafting homework for me,'

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

'Nope. I didn't see any dogfish.'

"I have no toys just yet. I have a concept of a plan for toys...toys like no one has ever seen before."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

"One day, I'll be the first woman!"

Totalitarian Humour

'Ben, true sportsmanship is a state of mind, and I'm proud of you.'