I love collecting too! I like old Victorian things, and I love love cameos. Especially cameos on the throat. Yes, Im old old school.

What a funny card! What I like is the goofiness of the dress contrasted with the seriousness of the woman's expression. I guess that might be due to the way photographs were produced back then. I wonder how old this post card is?

By the way, Miss Alkon, with your passion for collecting old post cards, you could probably spend a perfectly fun afternoon comparing notes with James Lileks up in Minneapolis.

Just goes to show you: too many carbs, you end up wearing them.

Despite all those carbs, I prefer it to Gaga's meat dress. Now I want to see one featuring chocolate.

Too funny! BF and I were in Gettysburg this weekend, and there was a big antique show in Lincoln Square. We poked around there for a while, but didn't see anything we really wanted, and then we went out to the battlefields. Truly awesome, but in a very somber way. We also did a horseback tour, it was amazing! I think every kid in America should be required to go there and learn the history. Walking around the battlefields, taking pictures of all the monuments, the old cannons, the fences, was kind of sobering. I kept feeling the hairs on the back of my neck standing up...there is still some lingering energy there, I think, from all that happened. BF wants to go back next year for the 150th anniversary reenactment.

Ppear,here ya go:

chocolate fashion show

The girls and I have gone to the New York Chocolate Show for a couple years running, but it gets old after a while. We haven't been for a couple of years, though, so maybe this year...

Cant tell if thats a dead chicken, or a dead Shih Tzu in her hand

@Flynne: "I kept feeling the hairs on the back of my neck standing up...there is still some lingering energy there, I think, from all that happened."

I've heard it said that the Gettysburg battlefield is loaded with ghosts, if you're into that sort of thing.

Ya' want weird?

http://www.ufunk.net/en/artistes/victorian-surrealism-le-monde-%C3%A9trange-de-jeffrey-harp/

Someday I want to completely paper my half-bath with old postcards.

Photos weren't instant back then, it was really hard to hold a smile for the length of time needed, that's why old pics are always serious-faced.

Why, thank you, Flynne! Now I wish for all of my wishes to be answered so quickly.

Too bad about the photo of the woman with the green hair and her outfit made of white chocolate tubes. Looks like a bunch of fat rolls (maybe the end result of all that chocolate).

"Ya' want weird?"

Talk about hair-raising! Those pictures are just...sort of...yeah.

I think I'll go look at the 'road-kill in evening wear' site now.

I'm a sucker for old hand-colored cards from the 30s and 40s touting the wonders of life in California.

Something about that combination of chemical photography, hand painting, and boundless optimism...

Congratulations, Amy!

You must be very pleased.

I know, right? You're pleased. You think this is an advance for human conduct.

(Personally, I think it's kinda like the beginning of slave exports from Africa. This nightmare should be over in another four hundred years or so.)

Special time! You're feeling the glow!

Coming Up Next on your hit parade: Children don't really NEED hot food....

> you'll mock me for using REEEEsearch

I'll mock you for pretending to be a scientist.

> why an intact family made up of two gay parents
> is somehow not a good and loving place

[1.] Contradiction in terms: An intact family has a loving mother with a loving father.

[2.] Missing either a loving mother or a loving father.

Got it? You're recursively wrong.

I hate this so much. You're so smug. You're so eager to throw CHILDREN overboard in order to be nice to grown men and women, and to pat yourself on the back for your naivete. You want your darling social circle to be the path to Heaven....

Things are about to get a lot worse for Western Civ. Maybe we deserve it.

Gary Taubes would NOT approve of this foul temptress!

On Gettysburg - while I'm not a believer, they say it's one of the most haunted places on earth. Cool ghost tours in town; and nonbeliever or not, I stay away from Devil's Den at night ... if I recall correctly, 14,000 souls perished there in one day [it's a rocky area of the battlefield].

Yes sir, Mr. Teflon, and ORPMDad, it's surely haunted. I could feel it during the day, we didn't go to the battlefields after dark, although I did want to, just once, but BF was all, nah, there's no need! I think he felt it too, but didn't want to admit it.

The town of Hanover is right near Gettysburg and they make the best pretzels there! I love the sour dough ones. Alas, I haven't had any for over a year now, since we now know that wheat isn't so good for you after all.