Dogs Resting
One of the things which has aroused distaste among some observers and amused jealousy among others is the things dogs can get away with doing right out there in public. Yes, other domesticated animals do the same things, but few people walk through the streets with their cows or ferrets or reindeer. The…
Dogs and Their Pets
As mentioned in our last thrilling episode, I have been checking through the new arrivals to the inventory, looking over the adventures of dogs. Here it was that I discovered the existence of the Bystander Beast, animals whose conduct in a postcard is minor. But there are plenty of postcards where the dog is…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 23
Matt had seen a lot of these poses before, of course. The third of three boys in the family, he could hardly have grown up ignorant of certain pictorial journals. But it was different when they were all performed by the same person, not to mention a person you knew. AND a person who…
Bystander Beasts
I was checking through the new inventory, searching for bloggable data and found, as usual, that there are plenty of outhouse cards, fishing cards, and dog cards. What this says about the priorities of our ancestors I am hesitant to declare. In any case, the dogs are busy with all the usual dog activities:…
Rolling Right
The question of how to install the roll of toilet paper is, I am told, one of the most hotly-debated questions of the past century or so. Only the fact that the roll takes a while to be used up is apparently the only thing that keeps it from being as large an issue…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 22
The snow crunched under, and into, Matt’s shoes. Not knowing the protocol of such things, he had gotten out of the cab and sent it away when he was still a goodly distance from the gate. Seeing an uneasy man approach on foot, the gatekeeper, already disgruntled at being dragged away from Saturday morning…
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Our ancestors, to judge by postcard cartoon art, certainly were a gaudier lot than they seem in those black and white photos in the family album. We have discussed hereintofore the frequent appearance of checkered coats and trousers for men (the larger, the more likely). And as far as stripes and polka dots are…
Postcard Jukebox
We have discussed this hereintofore, but more cards come into the inventory and I need to venture anew into the fact that the cartoonists who produced pictures had the whole of pop culture to draw upon. One of the easiest ways to get a grin or a nod from a prospective buyer was to…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter Twenty-One
The first glimmer of sunlight was a great relief to Matt. As long as it was dark, he felt rather obliged to stay in bed and try to sleep. Whenever he dozed off, however, he found himself in the year-end party room full of corpses he had imagined for fictional purposes, except that at…
FICTION FRIDAY: Fae Fashion and Grooming
“Wow! You flattened all seventeen zombies with one blast!” “Yes, Mortal Woman, but I fear this is only the Grim One’s advance party. Now we must move to the inner sanctum of the forest, where I may rebuild my strength.” “Of course, prince, but…while we’re there…there’s something I’ve been meaning to ask…
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