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Tame Impala – Alter Ego

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No new regular posts, but look! It’s another postcard!

Every week (or so) I draw a postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory. Please also let me know if you receive a postcard from me. I know one has already been lost in the mail so I want to make sure everyone who has asked for a postcard has received one. Thanks!

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Surfer Blood – Anchorage

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I have been very busy/distracted/lacking in creative juices lately and sadly this blog has taken a hit. I drew a bunch of postcards a while back but haven’t gotten around to photographing/scanning/posting them. Perhaps I should implant myself with some sort of shocking device for when I am in danger of being late or missing a post.

Every week (or so) I draw a postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory. Please also let me know if you receive a postcard from me. I know one has already been lost in the mail so I want to make sure everyone who has asked for a postcard has received one. Thanks!

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Plaid – Sam Lac Run

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The postcards were on a bit of an hiatus, but they are back and we’ll see if they manage to stick around. Here are some faces . . . what are they so happy/sad about?

Every week I draw a postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory. Please also let me know if you receive a postcard from me. I know one has already been lost in the mail so I want to make sure everyone who has asked for a postcard has received one. Thanks!

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Siriusmo – Nights Off

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I’m a bit behind on the postcards and hope to catch up in the next few weeks. In the meantime here is Postcard 9. Not sure what’s going on here but it kind of looks like seaweed.

Every week I draw a one off postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory. Please also let me know if you receive a postcard from me. I know one has already been lost in the mail so I want to make sure everyone who has asked for a postcard has received one. Thanks!

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A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Fernando’s Giampari

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Does this bird have only one leg or is the other one directly behind it? The world may never know. Either way, here it is . . . postcard 8. It’s a showdown.

Every week I draw a one off postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.

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Four Tet – Plastic People

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I’d like to think that jellyfish dance to Four Tet. How could they resist undulating their spindly tentacles to his beats? I don’t think they could. Next time I am at the Monterey Bay Aquarium I will play some Four Tet to the jellyfish and see how they react.

P.S. I would like to apologize to my friend Jim and anyone else with cnidariaphobia (my word for the fear of jellyfish). I hope this one does not terrify you . . . I assure you it does not sting (much).

P.P.S. I have been corrected, it was a fear of rays, not jellyfish . . . I’ll save that for the next postcard.

If you would like a one of a kind hand-doodled postcard, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.

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Phantogram – Let Me Go

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This past Monday I saw Phantogram at DC9 and quite enjoyed it. The more I go there, the more I like DC9 as a venue and bar . . . it’s kind of like having a band play in your (large) living room (if it had a bar, booths instead of couches and a good sound system). It was probably the most packed show I’ve ever been to at DC9 and it was well worth it.

This week’s postcard is a little different from the other ones. I have always wanted to get into paper cutting (like I need more hobbies and interests) and felt the urge to try some simple cutting for this postcard. It’s a bit hard to tell from the photo, but there are two sheets of cardstock (dark beige and red). I cut into the beige one and glued it to the red one (hence the curling in the second photo). I am sure it’s some combination of the fact that I was cutting into cardstock and that my x-acto blade isn’t the sharpest, but I am not super excited about the results. I want my cut lines to be as clean as my drawn lines, so it might just take some practice and better materials. Last night I almost threw out the card, but slept on it and then tried to salvage it . . . so here it is . . . postcard 6.

If you would like a one of a kind hand-doodled postcard, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.

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Moloko – Over My Head

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With all of this snow lately, it seems to be all that’s on my mind. If you are not a lover of snow, have no fear, my California photos will be up in the next week or so. I took a little break from working on them to get the snow photos out of the way while the topic was still fresh. I wanted to build an igloo, but after all of the shoveling and wandering around taking photos (and then trying to get back to normal everyday things), I have not gotten around to it. Instead, I decided to draw one. In hindsight I wish I hadn’t put that “snow drift” next to the igloo.

If you would like an original hand-doodled postcard, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.

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Duran Duran – Planet Earth

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Please excuse my absence from this past week (or so). I was in California visiting friends, driving along route 1, celebrating my birthday and doing other fun vacation things. They say it’s winter over there but I say it’s spring. The weather was perfect . . . 50s-low 60s, gorgeous (almost stormy) clouds in a blue sky. On my six hour flight across the country I took some time to draw postcard #4. I had a window seat and used my ever changing view as inspiration for the card.

On the flight I decided to treat myself to one of the following:

• Absinthe for $8
• wifi for $12.99
• movie for $8

Absinthe was the clear winner and was well worth it. $8 is steep for a movie I don’t care about on the small screen and I can live without being connected to the world for 6 hours (I later found out it was free for the month of January). The absinthe even came in a pretty glass bottle (photos below).

I am hoping to bombard you with posts in the next couple days because 1. I am behind on a few and 2. I probably won’t be going anywhere since according to the weather gods we are supposed to get 20″-30″ of snow (this number keeps going up, so by tomorrow it might be 20′-30′ . . . wouldn’t that be swell).

P.S. I think it’s safe to say postcard #2 went missing. I am sad about this. No more round postcards.

If you would like an original hand-doodled postcard, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.

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Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy

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Here it is . . . postcard #3. I know postcard 1 made it to its recipient, but I am not sure about postcard 2 . . . it’s floating out there somewhere. I hope it just hasn’t arrived yet and not that it’s lost because the USPS doesn’t know how to handle a round postcard.

If you would like an original hand-doodled postcard, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.