big life; small space

I have a book to lend you. I should be done with it by next Saturday.

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Okay..... dare I ask?

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"Dispatches from Wondermark Manor: Volume 1"

It's like a Steampunk Victorian/Modern satire. It's thoroughly disturbing and weird.

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Hehehe. Awesome.

Oh, hey, do you want info on the 2-day swing dance crash course that's happening the week before the next DoV?

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Hell yeah, I do!

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If you register in advance each day is $25
First day is West Coast Swing and I can't remember what the second day is now... Lindy Hop and something else.

June 28 and 29
12-4:30pm
$25-40

http://www.dance-manhattan.com/

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torenheksje.livejournal.com

Too bad the first one can't be made on parchment with a flying owl instead of a flying envelope. OWLmail paper.

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Oooh, what a fun pre-birthday party thing!

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imaginarycircus.livejournal.com

When I walk by Bob Slate today I'll duck in and see if the have airmail stationary. I'm almost positive they do. I can send you some if you want.

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Someone in this great quest apparently called them and found out they didn't or only had the stuff that was regular paper printed with airmail-ish things, which just doesn't quite do it. If you do find it, definitely let me know, but I'd be surprised.

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charlottezweb.livejournal.com

Wait--do you want the kind that folds up into its own envelope or just the thin paper pad? Because I've seen the latter online, um, wait a sec...here we go:

http://www.ryman.co.uk/Basildon-Bond-Airmail-A5-Paper-02062505.asp

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http://www.crane.com/prdsell.aspx?name=kd6121l_letterpressedairmailcorrespondencecards

oooo and they have the envelopes. Of course I just broke their SQL trying to look. I'll have to see if they'll ship here and how egregious that will be.

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imaginarycircus.livejournal.com

Oh, that is so disappointing! I'll look in to make sure.

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wyrdwriter.livejournal.com

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aesthetically pleasing, but not the object in question (this obsession is some random and unholy union of childhood nostalgia, my obsession with things passing out of the world, my (admittedly fickle) insistence on historical accuracy and fandom amusement).

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wyrdwriter.livejournal.com

Oh!

It's not something like this you are looking for, is it?
https://pardonmyhindi.com/store/product.php?productid=11&cat=5&page=1

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Nope, that's an aerogram, which is a different, but related oddity.

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If you buy it, and invest in an old Underwood to type on it with, I won't think that you are crazy. You simply practice a very high order sort of sanity.

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I actually learned how to type on an Underwood. Which is probably the most bizarre absolutely true thing I've ever mentioned about myself, context considered.

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saltbox.livejournal.com

According to this page, there's only one company that still makes onion skin paper. Which I'd always thought was synonymous with airmail paper, but I can't be sure. I also don't know if that means there's no more of that old tyme airmail paper (with the logo and stuff) to be purchased. But if that is indeed the case, then what you might need to do is buy the onion skin paper here and print on the airmail stuff with a color printer, to mimic that look.

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So did I,but that was in grade eight. *cough*

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I still have mine beside my bed. Rural electricity being what it is. And an old (my age)classroom desk is sitting outside my bedroom door, waiting for me to make room for it.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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I think that, at this point in the conversation, we should just assume that anything that you are willing to admit to is not going to trip any alarms on my nutty meter.

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I suspected this.:)

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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.;)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Aint't that the truth!:D

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I stand uncorrected.:)

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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!

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I avoid the entire thing like the plague.

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