Forever stamp redux

So the arrival of the forever stamp has me asking some interesting questions. For example, does it make sense for me to drop $500 or so on stamps, hoping they’d last the rest of mine and Lea’s lives? I started down that road, and then I thought “hmmm. I wonder how long that self-adhesive lasts? … Read more

Meeting Saintseester

I broke Atlanta Bread with Saintseester today. I called her a whore, and it went downhill from there. OK, perhaps just a leetle explanation is in order. I had been hoping for an opportunity to say something about her “sashaying by,” and as it turned out, I got said opportunity right when I met her. … Read more

They were more than tacky signs

Know something I miss from the ’70s? Huge, tacky, landscape-dominating, power-sucking, neon-laden, animated signs. They’re not products of the ’70s, of course–they date to the post-World War II era, when it was just becoming possible to drive coast to coast with relative ease. But the ’70s were the last time they were around in any … Read more

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