“What happened?” asked Barbara, looking around the off-white chamber. The tall person in the white robe smiled. “We get a lot of that. You turned left on the corner of State and Delaware just as a driver lost control of his SUV. You were caught between the grille and the window washer’s scaffold.” Continue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Reassessment”
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Halloween-Adjacent?
It is time for my annual column where I go through my inventory and discover I have no Halloween postcards for sale. There ARE Halloween postcards, and postcard mongers who can offer you a fine array, but these folks exist at a higher financial level than I can compete with, and therefore I haveContinue reading “Halloween-Adjacent?”
Seaside Humor II
As you will recall from our last thrilling episode, we were looking through a portfolio of beach postcards produced in 1948 by Curteich. These accordion-pleated collections were essentially cartoon collections, the postcards printed on both sides of the page (as opposed to other similar portfolios where you could tear out and mail individual cards.) Continue reading “Seaside Humor II”
Seaside Humor
A perennial difficulty with postcards, from the day these started including pictures until today, is that finding a card which would be perfect for Cousin Tabitha is never enough. If the card is really perfect to send Tabitha from your vacation spot it’s good enough to keep, too. One answer to this is toContinue reading “Seaside Humor”
FICTION FRIDAY: Know-It-All
“Now, you’ve got it, right? I want to be transported to 1962. For real, and as myself, knowing what I know. No changes. Me, Durward Bailey as I am in 2024…only give me different clothes.” “Different clothes,” murmured the massive brown caterpillar. Durward strode from his desk to his unmade bed andContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Know-It-All”
Feeding or Fooling?
Have I mentioned—more than thirty times—that this is not a food blog? But maybe what I am writing about here doesn’t count. Folks on the Interwebs have differing opinions on this (as with everything else) so let’s not wait around. The appearance on the market of Coca-Cola flavored Oreos (good stuff) and OscarContinue reading “Feeding or Fooling?”
Looking for Clues
There is never the usual outpouring of response when my column deals with bygone jokes I just can’t figure out. But I have to produce these now and again. A blogger always runs the risk of being considered omniscient and infallible, and I MUST do my best to correct this notion before someone demandsContinue reading “Looking for Clues”
Next Season’s Greetings
Look, nobody said you have to start singing “Little Drummer Boy”. I understand, okay? A lot of you have jokes about “pumpkin spice already?” you’re planning to toss at people. Been there. Do it myself. But this is not part of the popular hatred for impending holidays (and/or winter) but an expression ofContinue reading “Next Season’s Greetings”
More Bygones
I was told over and over as a child—it was one of those things teachers felt we should know—that jack o’lanterns were originally made of turnips, not pumpkins. We all wanted to know whether they had birthday cake candles in those days, but that was all we ever got: in the olden days, peopleContinue reading “More Bygones”
Inkwells and Bathtubs
I was looking over a new postcard for my inventory and thought, “Wow! How much longer does THAT joke have to live?” I realized that even I understand some of these old postcard gags simply because I had read about the basic idea in books, or seen them in old movies. A joke dependsContinue reading “Inkwells and Bathtubs”
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