Rain shut down the job I'm covering, so I had a whole afternoon to myself in Medford. In the rain. And cold.
Rainy, cold Medford is pretty damn...well, it's Medford in the cold rain. Figure it out.
So I took a shower and caught up on some paperwork. Read a book - Cold Iron by Stina Leicht; "blackpowder-and-socery", elves with magic and flintlocks fighting humans with ring-bayonets and 12-pound Napoleons and a fun read - and did some bloggage. Chatted with some friends via e-mail and FB.
Finally I ran out of entertainment so I sat down and did these;
This is "Kittehs o' War" for the Boy, and this
...is "Drachma the Cat God" for the Girl. HAD to be their beloved kittehs, of course. I had a buttload of these postcards and realized that the kiddos have NO interest in reading some sort of boring letter from me. My Bride I can write to...but the urchins? They love the cartoons.
So I taped the postcards together to draw the images and then took the tape off. I'll mail them tonight so next week the littles can put them together as jigsaw puzzles. A quick and fun little project and, hopefully, entertaining for them.
But now I'm done and bored again. I wonder if there's a bad movie on?
Are you thinking of rewriting Catshit 1 with actual cats? The only problem I can see is the conflict between coherent organized action and the phrase "herding cats".
ReplyDeleteKyatto Shitto Wan! Hai!, what a great little movie...but, no, it's just a one-off. Though I should really do something like that for the kiddos...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2g6zcb
Clever idea with the postcards. I love re-purposing things (the hipster word for using throwaways.) Did you buy the used postcards?
ReplyDeleteWhenever I see a tray of them at a second-hand store, I wonder if the recipient enjoyed repeated pleasure by re-reading and touching the card.
Someone decided to use the idea of ersatz postcards to make a recent best-seller, but I wonder that people actually send the anymore, save from travel abroad. Money mattered at one time, as did real commo, and a penny postcard was way cheaper than airrmail.
Most of them were from "Scrap", which is this great little re-use place in Portland (http://scrappdx.org/) tho I had to get a couple of cheapie tourist cards from the local Freddy's. The really cool ones I can't use because they're already written on, and that's kind of the fun part, reading those little lost bits of lives preserved on cardboard...
ReplyDeleteI don't think that postcards are much of a thing anymore...hell, letter-writing has pretty much disappeared, and, as you point out, the postcards were the Twitter of the pre-digital age, the thing you sent when you didn't want to pay a nickel for the full First Class postage...
It is fun to read them. One feels a bit like a voyeur, and I notice there tends to be a trend in their writing. They usually convey workaday news, but often with a cheery spin. I enjoy the simplicity.
ReplyDeleteIt is a different thing than the simple-mindedness of today, IMHO.