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Another Assessment

I had no particular intention of revisiting the subject of Monday’s column. It isn’t that I had exhausted the wordplay available with donkeys on postcards: I just felt I had rambled on long enough about the subject and ought to move to a subject where I could offer more substantive commentary. But theContinue reading “Another Assessment”

Grin and Bear

I hope what I wrote in Monday’s column could not be construed as suggesting the donkey (burro, jackass, etc.) served only one purpose in the postcard of midcentury vintage. The donkey appeared regularly on postcards in many roles: at the beginning of the twentieth century he appeared as a sometimes patient, sometimes recalcitrant beast ofContinue reading “Grin and Bear”

The Means, The Ends

There are some jokes which appear over and over in the postcard world, and bits of wordplay that seemed to leap from cartoonist to cartoonist and company to company. There is the amorous golfer (want to play a round?), the tourist in the ice cream parlor observing how broadening travel is, the little brownContinue reading “The Means, The Ends”

Less Filling

I have no desire to be regarded as a crank, which would suggest I should keep my mouth shut about certain topics about which I have opinions which are not in line with those of the majority. Still, this is the Facebook Age, when social manners demand that you shout such things at theContinue reading “Less Filling”

2-D Celebrities

I thought today we might just glance at three celebrities who can be remembered by heir postcards. Each was responsible for a lot more cultural baggage than that: bits of our language, tie-in merchandise, musical history, and all that. But even at that, they are nowhere NEAR as big as once they were. Continue reading “2-D Celebrities”

Sales of Yesteryear

Maybe, Mincemeat Macaroon, I have been going about this the wrong way. Maybe we can gently ease the conversation away from food and back to the world of postcards, taking baby steps. So I thought I would fill a blog with a few things I learned about kitchen and household ways of the pastContinue reading “Sales of Yesteryear”

Vital Vittle Volumes

Since you asked, I will answer, but we MUST get back to postcards one of these days. But being a blogger and thus not shy about sharing my opinion, I will pass along some thoughts on Iconic American Cookbooks. This is not a Top Ten because I haven’t got room for ten and, anyhow,Continue reading “Vital Vittle Volumes”

Crisp and Unclear

We had apples at our house. There were other fruits, though not as many as you may suspect, as this was back in the last century and no one had invented Star Fruit or Kiwi or such other modern contraptions. My father had half a grapefruit with his breakfast, we ate enough bananas thatContinue reading “Crisp and Unclear”

Half-Baked Blogging

No, we are not going to pause for any more food trivia. We are going to discuss postcards again and not get bogged down in side missions involving this or that bit of culinary history. Those of you who asked about the two Ms in M&Ms will just have to…oh, all right: it standsContinue reading “Half-Baked Blogging”

When and Why

Would you stop now, Bluebrry Baked Beans? This is not a foodie column, as anyone who has heard me speak of my mother’s Tapioca Meat Loaf and my own landmark Turkey liver Pizza will attest. There are other places on the Interwebs which can provide you this information, and I wanted to get backContinue reading “When and Why”