Yet another giant monster card from silenus! This one is of King Kong vs. Godzilla, “The Two Mightiest Monsters Of All Time!” Cool!
His missive relates a quote from Buffy’s Riley Finn about needing to know “the plural of apocalypse”. That brought to mind Stacker Pentecost’s rousing speech in another kaiju epic: “Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!”
I got a vintage postcard from Old_Wench today of the junction of the Allegheny and Mononongahela rivers in Pittsburgh, and she indicated the building she works in.
The stamps may be vintage as well; they are small denominations with images I’ve never seen before…
Thanks, Old_Wench, I hope your office is high enough that you get a gorgeous view!
I’m glad you liked it. Yes, the stamps are older (a/k/a “obsolete postage”). My father was a stamp collector for 70+ years and most of his stamps are only worth their face value but still valid for postage. You should see our Christmas cards - we frequently get comments on the assortment of stamps used on them. When we’ve run low on some denominations, we’ve also bought them for less than face value on ebay, from stamp dealers, etc.
I’m on the 27th floor of the 31-story building so the views are good, especially toward the North Side. We are directly across the Allegheny River from PNC Park (home of Pittsburgh Pirates), which was not yet built when that postcard was printed. The first small photo under the large one on this page is the view from one side of my office: https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/sports-venues/pnc-park/
I just got mine from purplehorseshoe. It’s a reproduction of the illustration “Farewell at Night” by Georges Barbier. It looks like something you’d see on an F Scott Fitzgerald paperback.
I’ve gotten 2 postcards from Karen Lingel. One is a Henri Matisse, the other is an aerial shot of beautiful downtown Aurora, IL, just down the road from me.
A card from Dolores Reborn arrived today with an invitation to go fishing. The card has a
photo of two kids with fishing poles on a riverbank. Thanks for your wonderful card Dolores!
Nobody has has replied to my offer to send card to them. If anyone sends me their address I’ll send a card out them.
Got my first card today from dbygawdcapn, with a beautiful sculpture by Jeff Koons with real flowering plants, from the Glenstone Museum. Very cool, thanks very much!
In picking mine up, the postman dropped yet off another from Teuton this time featuring Concarneau - of which I’d never heard. (Google to the rescue! And a rabbit hole to fall down & pleasantly click around, reading … )
I couldn’t quite see the British stamps before - something about mental health, but it was obscured by the cancellation - but this stamp I think wasn’t even properly cancelled. It features two older folks putting their heads together over their tea very conspiratorially.
“I can’t abide to see people gossiping.”
That cracked me up, and imma send a picture of it to some friends. It’s very … apropos.
I got a postcard today from Peedin. It is a very fancy painting by Baroque artist Domenichino, which hangs in the Wallace museum in London. Thanks, Peedin!
Another postcard from anglophile peedin: a vintage card from England with a photo of “The Abbey and (something) Gardens (something) Avon.” (The post office put their 50th Anniversary of Earth Day graffiti right on top of the caption.) It’s a lovely garden, with people social-distancing way back in 1983. Or perhaps they are just British! Thanks, peedin!