Aye, Aye, Cap'n

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[Portrait of Cap’n Crunch from the cereal box]

Dear Tom,

Ever wonder who Cap’n Crunch really works for? These days the ship probably is registered in the Bahamas, with a mixed Filipino and Ukrainian crew.

Dees

I Can See Dead People, Mr. Kane

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“Beach Huts, Southwold.” © Margaret Heath 2006
Design Copyright: The Art Group Limited. Made in England. A88/5
© Inter IKEA Systems B.V. 2006

Dear Bonnie,

Enclosed is the Sixth Sense. Sorry for my long possession of it. If you never got around to seeing it, watch for the surprise ending – Bruce Willis reveals the meaning of “Rosebud.”

Dees

Luck of the Irish

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[Portrait of Lucky from the Lucky Charms box]

Dear Jay, Deb & Dees,

The cereal companies don’t want us to know it, but Lucky’s been in rehab twice this year already & has lost two or three pots of gold during blackouts.

Dees

Well, La-De-Da

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A handful of flowers can change your mood. Decorating is a living process. Fill your home with things you love, from flowers to furry pets to friends, and everyone will feel better.

IKEA

Dear Jim,

Glad to hear you're coming to the wedding.

Ann wanted to send a message,

[Letters and quasi-letters by Ann]

Dees

See Gorilla at Snake Farm

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[Movie poster for Paprika]

PAPRIKA!

OPENS IN NEW YORK MAY 25TH!

OPENS IN LOS ANGELES JUNE 1ST!

COMING SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU!

WWW.PAPRIKAMOVIE.COM

Dear Bill,

Glad you had a good time in Arizona. Warm sounds good to me. When in San Antonio (my hometown), don't forget the Alamo, or the Snake Farm in nearby New Braunfels.

Dees

Ghost Story

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Joan Miró: Still Life With Rose, 1916

Stilleben mit Rose/La Rose

Switzerland, Private Collection

Dear Bonnie,

I found The Sixth Sense. Will send soon.

[Drawings by Ann]

Dees

Rosalie's a Light Sleeper

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Joan Miró: A Dew Drop Falling from a Bird's Wing Wakes Rosalie, Who Has Been Asleep in the Shadow of a Spider's Nest, 1939.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Mark Ranney Memorial Fund

Dear Lynn,

Let me know if you're still receiving mail at this address - [e-mail address] - and how you're doing.

Dees

Thurl is Dead, Long Live Tony

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[Tony the Tiger]

They're Gr-r-reat!

Dear Geof & Nancy,

My quest for postcard variety takes me increasingly the package art. (Remember the package art gallery at 812 Morgan?)

I never knew Tony had jaundice.

Dees

Blue II

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Joan Miró: Blue II, 1961

Blau II/Bleu II

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou

Dear Stephanie & Wendall,

Wish I had a destination card to send, but Miró '61 will have to do until we attend my nephew's wedding next month.

[Drawings by Ann]

Dees & Ann

Hitch a Ride on a Comet

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The word comet -- from the Greek, meaning "long-haired" -- is an apt description for what may appear to be a blur or smudge in the heavens. This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows Hall-Bopp against a stellar backdrop in the constellation Sagittarius. The stars are streaked due to a combination of Hubble's orbital motion and its tracking of the nucleus.

Courtesy of H.A. Weaver (Applied Research Corp.), P.D. Feldman (Johns Hopkins Univ.), and NASA.

Dear Jay, Deb & Dees,

If I remember right, this was the comet that the Applewhite cult offed themselves to pursue. It was so bright in the spring of '97 that I could see it from Chicago, despite city lights.

Dees

Only the Fool in His Heart Says There is No Cod

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Breaded Alaskan Cod Fillets

Premium fillets of Alaskan Cod... with lightly seasoned bread cr...

No Preservatives

No Artificial Colors or Flavors

Dear Geof & Nancy,

Cod is as close as I'm going to get to Alaska in the near future.

An odd number of "alumni sweethearts" is odd indeed.

Dees

More Claude

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Claude Monet: Lilacs, Overcast Weather, 1872

Fliederbüsche bei trübem Wetter - Les Lilas par temps gris

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

[To: Emily and Sam]

Ann wanted to send a message.

[Drawings by Ann]

Claude

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Claude Monet: Hôtel des Roches Noires, 1870

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Dear Martha,

Nice to hear from you about your firm &c. Sounds like a good situation.

I won't have any new destination cards for your garage wall for a while -- Grand Rapids in March -- but you will get one then.

Dees

Phantom Beer Wagons

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(A sepia print of an old-timey beer wagon)

Miller Brewing Company
Guided Tours Monday - Saturday, Call for Times.
Gift Shop Open Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
For information call (414) 931-BEER
www.shopmillerbrewing.com

Dear Kevin,

When in Milwaukee, drink as the Milwaukeeans do. Or at least visit the brewery. Horse-drawn beer wagons are gone, however.

Dees

Smash the Prevailing Paradigms!

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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana

#19125 These markers show where the men of I Company under the command of Capt. Miles Keogh fell as they attempted to reach Custer's position while being overwhelmed by Sioux Indians led by Crazy Horse. Photo Courtesy: LIBI

Dear Layne,

Here's a postcard that dares to overthrow the oppressive paradigms of "interesting" and "picturesque."

Dees

The Bill

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Joan Miró: The Bill, 1925

Die Rechnung/L'Addition

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou

Dear Rich & Lisa,

Regards from Endless Winter. Somehow, it seems the season for Miró cards.

Do you have Victor's address? Is it still the mail drop in Miami? E-mail me an answer.

Dees

Sweet Tomato

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Living Room. Taliesin® is the Spring Green, Wisconsin home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright®. Within the 37,000 square feet of Taliesin is the living room, which has been described as the greatest domestic space in America.

Dear Jim,

I don't know if you've heard of a restaurant chain called Sweet Tomato, but you might like it. Buffet style, emphasis on salad, soup, noddles, etc.

Dees

Rough Riders

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Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt lead his Rough Riders (including some of his Badlands cronies) in the charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War and went on to become one of America's greatest presidents. Roosevelt was a conservationist and lead the way to the establishment of the National Park System during his presidency. Photo courtesy of Medora Trading Post. 701-623-4308.

Dear Peter,

Where's TR when we need him? No current candidate has that panache.

Though a ways from San Juan Hill, this is the kind of card you can buy at TR Nat'l Park in ND.

Dees

A Children's Rendering of Little Bighorn

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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana

#19127 Markers indicate where soldiers died when Lakota and Cheyenne warriors charged up and devastated L Company with fire from repeating rifles. Photo Courtesy: LIBI

Dear Jay, Deb & Dees

[A face and squiggles]

Drawings by Ann, Feb. 2008

Use Safety Scissors

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Be Tuned-In on the Go!

• Super stylish FM radio clips on bet or waistband

• Choice of 2 cool designs - Barbie™ or Hot Wheels™

• Collect Tokens from back panels of specially marked Kellogg's® packages.

Actual item may vary

For ages 5 and above

Approx. size: 3.15" X 3.6" X .87"

Includes 2 replaceable AAA batteries

BARBIE™

Visit Barbie.com™ for fun, fashion, games and more!

CUT & COLLECT

ONE TOKEN

Barbie/Hot Wheels

Cut along dotted line--use safety scissors.


Dear Geof & Nancy,

Ann wanted to send you a message, so here it is --

[Ann's preschool writing follows]

Use your Barbie Tokens wisely.

Dees

Bob L'Eponge

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Dunkaroos

Biscuits et creme

Saveurs Artificielles

Biscuits Bob L'Eponge

Dear Jay & Deb,

Enclosed are souvenirs from Canada. Originally my idea was to give you the Big Turk candy bar whole, but we forgot to do so for quite a while. Eventually, rather than give you stale turkish delight, we ate it. You are free to throw the wrapper away.

The card is the French side of the bilingual cookies & creme product eaten by children while in Canada.

Dees

An Upward Flow of Warmer Gases

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Saturn Storm

This image of the ringed planet Saturn shows a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator. The storm's white clouds are ammonia ice crystals that form when an upward flow of warmer gases shoves its way through Saturn's frigid cloud tops. The east-west extent of this storm is equal to the diameter of the Earth (about 7,900 miles),

Courtesy of Reta Beebe (New Mexico State Univ.), D. Gilmore, L. Bergeron (STScl), and NASA

Dear Robert,

Welcome to the winter you've only heard about. Watch for falling ice. Also be sure to visit us sometime after it gets warmer (April, maybe.)

Yr. Uncle Dees

Earthrise

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Rising Earth

The Moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 380,000 kilometers (236,000 miles) and has a diameter about one-fourth that of the Earth -- making it an unusually large natural satellite. The rising Earth is about 5 degrees above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft.

Courtesy NASA and NSSDC

Dear Steve & Deb,

I'm afraid this view is out of reach for spring break, but we will make it to Michigan for my nephew's wedding (and how did he get to be 25?)

Dees

Customer Comment

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Io

Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, is roughly the size of Earth's moon, but 2,000 times farther away. The reddish, white, and black areas are probably surface deposits, possibly consisting of mixtures of salts, sulfur, and sublimate deposits. Many of the black spots are associated with craters of possible volcanic origin.

Courtesy NASA

To Whom It May Concern [at Pomegranate, who published the postcard book The Solar System.]:

This is an excellent series of postcards & I'm sure your others are as well. They are, however, hard to remove from the books without tearing.

Regards,

Dees Stribling

Comet

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Comet Hyakutake

These images of Comet Hyakutake focus on a very small region near the heart of the comet -- the icy, solid nucleus. The icy regions of the nucleus are activated as they rotate into sunlight, ejecting large amounts of dust in the jets that are faintly visible here. Sunlight striking this dust eventually turns it around and "blows" it into the tailward hemisphere.

Courtesy of H.A. Weaver (Applied Research Corp.), HST Comet Hyakutake Observing Team, NASA, and NSSDC.

Dear Grandma and Uncle Jim,

Thank you for the presents.

From Lilly

Mars X3

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Three Views of Mars

These images show the planet on the last day of Martian spring in the northern hemisphere (just before the summer solstice). Mars has rotated about 90 degrees between each successive image, enabling us to see most of the Martian surface.

Courtesy of David Crisp and the WFPC2 Science Team (JPL/Caltech), NASA and NSSDC.

Dear Jay and Deb,

Thank you for the presents.

From Lilly

Put in a Larger Envelope

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China, mid-17th/early 18th century
Detail from the Jiasha (Mantle) for a Buddhist Monk.
Silk and metal threads, slit tapestry weave, 134.9 x 267.3 cm (53 1/8 x 195 1/4 in.).
Gift of Alice Getty, 1932.538
The Art Institute of Chicago

Dear Jim,

This card will have to do in lieu of a letter for now. Enclosed are materials relating to the visit of the Presiding Bishop to St. Nicholas earlier today. Lilly & I attended, & the place was as crowded as I've ever seen it.

Dees

Recycle, Reuse, Make Do

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Honey Nut O's

No Preservatives

No Artificial Ingredients

Dear Geof & Nancy,

Just another day here at the snow-bound postcard factory. As you can see, I made my own -- no preservatives & no artificial ingredients & a small carbon footprint.

Dees

See the Teepee Before You Die

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Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

According to legend, during a great battle between the Blackfoot and the Cree, the Cree fought valiantly until their medicine man deserted them, losing his headdress in midstream as he fled to the opposite shore. Thinking this was a bad omen, the Cree put down their weapons and were massacred. This tragic site was called "SAAMIS," a native word meaning "medicine man's hat."

KolorKard, 2030-21 Ave. S.W., Calgary, Alberta T2T ON7 PH/FAX: (403) 245-0704

Photo © Lloyd Eriksson

Dear Geof & Nancy,

Put Medicine Hat on your bucket list. Go ahead, I dare you. World's tallest teepee -- what else do you need?

Dees