Alien/ Egyptian God, Bear, and Erm...?

What: Alien or Egyptian God (facing left)
Beer: McMullen's AK
Receptacle: Straight sided pint glass
Situation: Nag's Head, Covent Garden, end-of-term drinks following Mountview Carol Concert at St Paul's Church

Not long into the first pint, and this clear image appeared. From the shape of its head, I believe it to be an alien like those seen in The Fifth Element. Alternatively (or perhaps as well, given the location of the film...) it could be an Egyptian god, since it is clearly a humanoid figure with the head of an animal. The closest I think would be Anubis, god of embalming, who is usually pictured with the head of a jackal.

The alien-god later morphed into a bear standing on its hind legs. Along the lines of Gentle Ben.

I can't remember what I thought this was. Any ideas, post them in the comments section!

Glass Menagerie II

What: Large Creepy Bug Creature
Beer: Centurion's Ghost Ale
Receptacle: Straight sided pint glass
Situation: Official Beer Reading Meeting in the Pickerel following 10th Annual Finland Curry

I've been unable to make sense of most of the photos I took at this meeting. Rob seems to have captured the images more successfully in his post ("Glass menagerie", below).

However, two important images are missing from his collection. The first, above, appeared in my second pint, and shows a large, many-legged, slimy, creepy, bug-like creature stretching around the entire circumference of the glass. Possibly an alien.

This second image appeared approximately an hour later in my third pint of the same beer. I thought initially it was some kind of small scurrying creature, but Rob thought it actually showed the image of a screaming man, probably - due to the hair standing on end - screaming in utter fear.

Female Jesus, Scottie Dog, and Aeroplane

What: Female Jesus (on the cross), Scottie Dog (facing right), Aeroplane (flying left)
Situation: The Goose, Wood Green, London

Although writing this in December, this reading took place on 1st October 2008.

Approximately 10 days after moving to London, I was sitting in our local pub among old men and drama students when a veritable comic strip appeared in my friend Kat's half-pint. In the centre of the photograph the outline of a proud Scottie dog can clearly be seen. This may have some reference to the Monopoly figurine, being London-based. Just to the left of the Scottie's tail, there appears to be a very womanly pair of curvy hips. Rather than being armless like the Victory of Samothrace, this figure's arms are outstretched to either side, leading me to conclude it is a female figure being crucified. Looking at the photo again, on the far left of the image, there also seems to be an over-sized magic lamp attached to the figure's arm. To the far right of the strip, there is a cartoon aeroplane in flight.

Glass menagerie

What: Squirrel, Moose/Kangaroo?, Goat?, Prancing Unicorn?, Shark, Fox/Snail?, Dodo
Beer: Centurion's Ghost Ale
Receptacle: Straight sided pint glass
Situation: Official Beer Reading Meeting in the Pickerel following 10th Annual Finland Curry

Lizzy and I have both had difficulty beer reading in recent weeks, and concluded that it was no good simply drinking beer and expecting results. What we needed was an official Beer Reading session where we could concentrate on the readings, and going to the Pickerel after the 10th Annual Finland Curry was the ideal opportunity. We each had two pints of Centurion's Ghost and were rewarded with a veritable menagerie of animals on our glasses. The first to emerge was this unmistakeable squirrel, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. Perhaps a recommendation to hoard my savings through the winter months and the recession?

Next to be spotted was a kangaroo drinking some of fellow Finlander Jason's beer. However, Lizzy noticed that looked at the other way round, it might be a moose. Moose live in Finland, so this was probably a good sign for Jason and Emma's wedding in Finland next year, which we'd been busy planning at the curry.

Next to emerge was the creature on the right, I think in my beer and which was variously identified as giraffe, horse or dinosaur. Looking at it again today, the underchin or beard is the most distinctive feature and leads me to conclude that it may be a goat, although it doesn't really look like a goat either. Lizzy was then convinced she had a prancing unicorn in the middle of her glass as she finished her first pint. Certainly, there is a distinctive hoofed leg visible, but the horn looks like it's pointing the wrong way and is too big for its head, so I'm not sure. Moving on to our second pints, I was greeted with another animal in the top foam after drinking about a third of the beer. Initially I claimed it was a naked mole rat but actually it's clear to me today that it's a shark, chasing a small fish right in front of its nose. It has fins and a mean looking mouth. Later on, about halfway down the beer I got an animal which to me looked canine, having a snout and a small tail. I think it is a fox or perhaps some other dog or wolf, sitting in a pile of snow, which is why you can't see its legs. Opinion was divided, however, with Lizzy ada mant that it was actually a snail. The night's final reading was in Lizzy's beer and was identified by its distinctive beak as a dodo. I was concerned that this was a bad sign, predicting extinction forthe noble art of beer reading, but Lizzy was less concerned, as it was simply reminding her of going on holiday to Mauritius and seeing a stuffed dodo.