the continuing quest for airmail stationary

[rm]

Did I mention I found some recently in a random stationary shop behind a bunch of other boxes, but it had stains from a coffee cup being set on it and I almost bought it anyway because it was funny?

I'm just mailing another letter to Patty, and as charmed as I am by my light blue/cream stationary, I again had the thought of airmail paper and started Googling.

What's more surreal -- that someone on Etsy actually makes up stationary that vaguely looks like old airmail stationary? Or that I found this on Ebay and my brain is whirring with possibilities. That's a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right? I donut need a multimedia Torchwood project (also, my illegible scrawl is brilliant for Snape's handwriting in Descensus, but utterly not useful here), but it's fucking genius, right? Anyone want to do a Jack/Estelle epistolary story with me? (yeah, my willpower? less than zero, kids).

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Re: That's a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I was probably a little younger, but not by much. My father still owns the thing. I could certainly hijack it for art as long as I left out the details. It's one of the post-war ones though, so it's not terribly attractive, but it's in pristine condition.

Re: That's a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

This was in a classroom full of same. I don't know how old the Colonel(what?) is,since he raised me I grew up with it,and consequently have never thought about it until just this minute right now...

Re: That's a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah, mine was at home, and is what my father used to write his crazy religious manuscripts on at night, using just two fingers to type at our dining room table. I taught myself to type, because I had Things to Say.

I had Things to Say.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I suspected this.:)

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Your father used to type out his crazy religious theories? Cracker!
I wish there was a written exegesis of my father's crazy religious theory(assuming that there wasn't more than one.)

I vividly remember him explaining it to someone (my uncle Hebert?) when I was a preschooler. After his funeral, I checked with my stepsisters and half brother, and as soon as I mentioned it, they remembered it too.

Essentially he anticipated The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by maybe twenty years: he believed that all religions had their origins in the ingesting of what he called fairy mushrooms. ("You eat them, and then you can talk to the fairies.")

My family can so out weird your family,that I don't even think that it's a fair contest.;)

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're new here. You don't know that my father has self-published his own version of the bible and writes poetry in the voice of Jesus.

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

My great grandmother told Sir Winston Churchill to shut up and listen while she explained why he was wrong-and he did!!!
Don't make me drag out her dad, New York, because I will. I ain't proud.

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's amazing.

Both that that happened and that we've gone from my Torchwood-inspired airmail stationary fixation through classic typewriters to Window Churchill. The Internet is fucking beautiful.

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Aint't that the truth!:D

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Considerations of filial piety and hereditary embarrassments aside, considered as a thing in itself, is it good poetry?
Because I would have to deduct points for that.

Writing, and publishing your own version of the Bible is impressive. On the other hand, one of the founders of your country did the exact same thing, and we all know that there were none of them eccentric!

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I avoid the entire thing like the plague.

Re: Thats a crazy thing to want to get my hands on, right?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Understandable.