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Takeout Odor

The skunk, I am told here, is a member of the weasel family, which may come in brown, ginger, or cream colors as well as black, almost always have stripes or other warning marks, and almost never, ever bite. This is all very well for science on the Interwebs. In postcards (as well asContinue reading “Takeout Odor”

Converbs

Proverbs are chunks of solidified wisdom handed down through the ages, a sentence or two which embody a nugget of truth. These may be cheerful “Every cloud has a silver lining” or cynical “Everything in the world is off by a quarter of an inch.” They can contradict each other: “It’s never to lateContinue reading “Converbs”

Screen Scrooges: Fan

Scrooge’s former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty. The panels shrunk, the windows cracked; fragments of plaster fell out of the ceiling, and the naked laths were shown instead; but how this was all brought about, Scrooge knew no more than you do. HeContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Fan”

Foliage Fooliage

We have, hereintofore, considered the various locales favored y our ancestors at the turn of the last century when it came to romance. The people passing through the years 1900-1920 hand-in-hand (lip-to-lip, perhaps, but that’s really as far as the mails would let ‘em go) have been shown to enjoy the comforts of benches,Continue reading “Foliage Fooliage”

Chatbott

This is not a current events blog, so this particular column is NOT about the AI writing controversy. The magazines which regularly send me rejection slips (sneaking up on the magic number 7,500) are divided on the issue, some refusing stories which have been written using AI and others saying it’s okay as longContinue reading “Chatbott”

Screen Scrooges: School Days

As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand. The city had entirely vanished. Not a vestige of it was to be seen, the darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold winter day, withContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: School Days”

Mockbeth

I was thinking of writing a column in this space about the use or misuse of Shakespearean lines on postcards, back in the day when Shakespeare mattered a whole lot more to the individual citizen of these United States. I may still do that, but in doing my research, I ran into a separateContinue reading “Mockbeth”

Hitting the Bottle

The recent addition to my inventory of a pile of postcards featuring babies made me wonder a little more specifically about a matter we have mentioned hereinbefore. Postcards of infants are filled with sociological observations, but most of those can be left to others, i.e., the proportion of mothers to fathers in baby-holding, theContinue reading “Hitting the Bottle”

Screen Scrooges: A Ghost’s Mission

“Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?” asked Scrooge. “I am!” The voice was soft and gentle. Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance. “Who, and what, are you?” Scrooge demanded. “I am the Ghost of ChristmasContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: A Ghost’s Mission”

Out On a Limb

We have been discussing stockings worn by ladies on postcards of the past. I mentioned that in this, as in so much of a cartoonist’s life, what is really important is knowing just where to draw the line. And so today, we are going to discuss stocking tops. Maybe this is what isContinue reading “Out On a Limb”