Saturday, October 14, 2006

Pink Like a Tongue


Dan Waber, "Lick" (19 Apr 2006)

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Boat and Grind


Roy Arenella, "Small Boat v$ The Daily Grind" (27 Mar 2006)

With this note: "Maybe I've burdened this small boat w/ more baggage than it can carry--but it feels good as I float it out towards Schenectady..." This is card # 206 plain.

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Notice of the Death of Ian Hamilton Finlay


Roy Arenella, "I.H.F. RIP" (27 Mar 2006)

Card # 83 p/c.

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One Sheet and an Eight-Page Booklet


Pati Bristo, "Peacebooklet # 1" (Nov 2005)

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Color Mischief


Roy Arenealla, "2Triangles" (22 Feb 2006)

Blog title from the reverse of card # 75CX.

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A Little Compost Mail


This Compost, Envelope and Card (21 Mar 2006)

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A Collage the Way Only Roy Arenella Does It


Roy Arenella, "How Color Seduces" (21 Mar 2006)

And this is card # 71 CX P/C.

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Now, Who's That Little Boy


Mick Boyle, "Ray Johnson" (Mar 2006)

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Trees is the Theme


D Mask, Illustrated Envelope (18 Mar 2006)

D. Mask enclosed a rough-and-ready add-n-pass booklet, made out of a brown paper bag in this envelope. The theme I have to work on is trees.

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Pigsnoutprint in Pink


frips, Pigsnoutprint (16 Mar 2006)

I see this card and say (to myself), Is that a pig's snout? I turn over the card and see little drawing of a pig with wings and this note "For Pigdada." Ah.

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Know No War


D. Mask, "KNoWar" (15 Mar 2006)

With great enclosures as well.

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kite tail press # 4


Dan Waber, "!f" (Mar 2006)


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Slightly Damaged in Transit


Roy Arenella, "Every Word was Once a Poem" (7 Mar 2006)

Card number 55 CXC from Roy Arenella.

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A Good Yarn


frips, World of Yarn (17 Feb 2006)


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kite tail press # 3


Dan Waber, "fall leaves # 6" (17 Feb 2006)


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Freedom of Expression


RF Cote, "liberte d'expression" (10 Feb 2006)

Another nice photo-collage, this time backed with a notice for a new mailartzine, "Circulaire 132."

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A Diary Note


Roy Arenella, "A Red Letter Day" (13 Feb 2006)

A good day for Roy, I assume, and an interesting little rubberstamp collage, and this is a card from Roy without a number (which he indicates on the card).

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I Don't Get Many Valentine's Day Greetings


Mick Boyle, "Happy Valentine's Day" (10 Feb 2006)

So I'm lucky to get this one.

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A Notice of Discs


Reed Altemus, Centerfold to "Noitca" (2005)

Reed sends me this little chapbook of Rundschreibe, along with a powerful asemic typoglyph.

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Possibly More than Whelmed


Jassy Lupa, Flowers (Jan 2006)

Jassy Lupa sends me these great prints, but I think she might have been overwhelmed at the time, since she wrote "overwhelm" five times as the only message on the other side of the card.

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