Save the bones... somebody's veggin 'out

This weekend, Klip's Joint is serving up recipes for Vegetable Broth, Philly Fish Chowder, and Anadama Bread. No bones about it. No land animals were harmed in the making of this feast. Just a bunch of nasty, slimy, scaly creatures of the deep... and some molasses.

Postcards: Jubilee!

So, as most people who know me have recognized, I have a bit of an obsession with open communication, in the form of postycardzez...

A month or so ago, at auction, I picked up a beer flat filled with cards, a few with postmarks most of which were between 1908 and 1917. This set of four lacked postmarks. They lack popular "collectibility", too, because there is no graphic element to them -- no photo, no flowers, no cute illustration, no bought-and-paid-for message. Still, I couldn't resist putting them in my collection, just because. After all, how often do you come across an announcement card for a birthday with hundreds of hand-written repeats of the same three-word message?

In fact, on the address side of these cards, the writer scrawled the count:

"377 times"

"218 times"

"677"

"640 times"

detail from second image

It's "Hexter's Golden Jubilee"!

(And it brings forth fond memories of naughty schoolchildren assigned the disciplinary "I will not [insert offense here] in school again." Write that in your notebook a few hundred times, and have it back to me by tomorrow at the beginning of class.)