German Humor
I got this post card from Germany via Postcrossing. I think is a anthropomorphized, cross-dressing, beer, sexual innuendo mashup joke. It is at least a double entendre. Anyway it made me laugh and creeped me out a little bit.
USPS Kudos
Last week in the mail I got this half a postcard in a plastic bag with an apology printed on it from the USPS.
The Freeway Dream
I got this postcard from a Postcrossing connection last week. The card is from the early 1960’s and it shows the intersection of the Pasadena and Hollywood freeways. But what it’s says on the back is the most interesting.
Why America
“But where are we going I asked?” “We are going to America.”My father said. “Why America?” I prodded. “Because son.” he replied “we were born Americans, but in the wrong place.” From Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg. Possibly an apocryphal story about refugees from the Hungarian revolution against the Soviets in 1956. “Something …
USPS Idea One
On the Postcrossing website someone is advertising to sell you Solar Eclipse stamps for twice the official price. Putting aside how cleverly targeted the ad is. It appears that the post office is leaving money on the table by not trying to get some of the margin on their limited edition and specialty stamps.
Fashions Change
We all know that fashions change in clothing and fashions change in cars. But do we also all know that fashions also change in kitchens, trade dress and postcards. The changes are influenced by technology but they would change anyway. Here is a fifty year look at some fashions in postcards: Postcards used to have …
The Tightrope
Postcrossing is ten years old and people from around the world are sending millions of postcards every year to strangers in the hope that they will get a card back from another stranger somewhere else in the world. (Check it out here) This strange form of trust is not common and I think it can …
Exploration
You don’t have to go far away to explore new things. Inga from Germany on Postcrossing photo is from a short visit to La Jolla, CA this week
Postcards as Art
I belong to a group called Postcrossing. With it you send postcards to strangers and other strangers send postcards back to you. There are more than 500,000 active users right now. Some of the members have taken the hobby of collecting postcard to a new electronic level. For instance take a look at this flickr …
Banana Slug
“Change is hard, Not changing is even harder.” Simon Oregon Postcrossing Have I been here? I have seen the banana slugs in Oregon. They are unattractive and slimey.