Ficus strangulensis

24.11.15 Dare Ficus s., ....it is of course not my place to make suggestions or requests for or from F.S., but I just saw  Ms. Mailart Martha  make reference here at the I.U.O.M.A. to " Carmen Miranda" & couldn't help but wonder what Ficus strangulensis might do with such a subject????...  I just saw this past Sunday a spot on t .v. concerning Bananas. The statement was made that people in the U.S.A. eat more bananas than apples & oranges combined...don't think that I would have guessed that one. Ave uh nez dae. Richard Canard... Post Scriptum: Does that make us a "Banana Republic" as well???

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Hey Ficus! Surprisingly, I say shockingly, I am unfamiliar with everything you just mentioned, but I will certainly check them out! Good to see a bunch of old timers like us still stumbling around through the digital fog!

Hey Fike!

Sure, send me the cassette! Back in the 80s and 90s, I was a Dead Tour punk, and a lot of my friends communicated through BBS hosts. I preferred communicating in person and through the mails, by way of MRR, Flipside, Factsheet Five.

All that cool stuff, and those solid interactions you described make me pine for the pre-Windows 95 days. Fortunately, we can all share those memories here.

Salud! from your bud, DAG

Hello fellow Richey! I know very few of my own clan so I may or may not have an uncle K.A. Richey.  We come from the Bartletts, like the pear people  Thanks for welcoming me!

Hey new ol' friend! Thanks for the cool envelope full of your prints - love your work! And appreciated your note... yes, we have experience in common. Will be sending something soon!

Hi Ficus, thanks for the mail! keep it going.

Hi Fike,  your letter arrived in my mailbox today. I was thrilled.  Thank you.  I will get something together and send it off to you soon.   The envelope was fabulous!  

Fike, I don't know abt me = confusion. That could be some randomness working.

Amalgamated Confusion is Keith Chambers in Anaheim, Cali. Good guy.

Yer ol' Bud-dha

Following up on Mim Young's comment - I too have been autocorrected to "Mom" which is pretty disconcerting for people who's mother's are no longer alive.

Thank you for adding me :) Look forward to sharing art~

FS- Greetings from Cascadia!

Glad you enjoyed the Walmarth Cascadia publicity, a joint effort of Walmarth UK, Cascadia Artpost, and the DKult Industrial Complex.

More mail will be on the way to you this coming summer.

~JL

Hey Fike - thanks for the message, story and photos. Much appreciated. Glad to know goose arrived safely. I've heard from over 100 people now. Blogging here: bird arrivals blog

New 365 on this shared blog: the chicken series

Thanks again for being part of the project.

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You may think strange that I am sending you another exact copy but this has been signed and autographed especially for you.  

Wow. It looks like a watercolor that has been stained and damage, but the damage is very beautiful.

This is the one I'm referring to:

When Fike's not mail arting or reading scifi or shattering the silence whilst making paper targets holey he wonders about strange and mostly useless things.

Sugar free popsicles from Wal Mart come in boxes of 20 with flavors Orange [O], Grape [P] and Cherry [R]. Each is contained in a plastic wrap which has a flap seal down the side and then two of these individual packages are bonded together with flaps on the same side making 10, 2-paks per vended package. If one holds a two-pack so that the stick handles are up and the sealed sides are facing him and observes which of the three flavors are in each individual pak, there would be 9 possible combinations [3x3 allowing each position to be filled by any of the three colors] HOWEVER, 3 of these possibilities are not present because none of the 2-paks [at least observed so far] have two of the same color. So it's 3x2 choices, 6 total. These are:

OP, OR, PO, PR,RO, RP.

I wondered if there was a statistically significant nonrandom distribution of all the 6 possible combinations. Non-randomness might be determined in colors of first position, 2^nd position & 2-pak combinations.

So, here is a record of observed [and eaten] combinations:

Pkg 001:

PO

OR

PO

PO

PO

PO

RP

OR

PO

RP

Pkg 002:

more to follow as more are eaten

Yep. That'd be me, KC of AC . . . Chief Dustomology Officer and mail clerk.

Que es "YOB-f?"

Thanks Ficus. This is new to me and am just starting off. You have certainly submitted a great deal of art. Lovely work too.

Fike your envelope arrived today - I will reply eventually, but have a few other pieces tog et to first. Thanks a lot ,man, I really appreciate it.

NOLA has really blossomed since Katrina. You should get down there sometime. It's so laid back. I live in the Midwest and it's so sterile here! I miss the sensuality of New Orleans so much. I'm actually flying out on Wednesday to catch a little of the pre-Mardi Gras festivity.

Fike, well he certainly had his "punk Rock" like moments, but he was an actor named Tony Curtis. I have on my kitchen table, my reply to your December mailing to me - hope to get it to the Post Office today. Best KV

Indeed it's Fate Fike!

Found your mail from a year ago, wow, am I ever backlogged. Mail on it's way to you tomorrow.

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That's a long time to be doing mail art. How fun!  You must have quite the collection of mail. I don't have a very large archive yet but it could easily threaten to overtake my small art space if I let it. :-) It was nice hearing from you. Take care.

Bootleg Fike at Asemic Front:

https://asemicfront.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/neo-psychedelic-asemic...

Many thanks for your latest! Buddha's Dream envelope a marvel , and insides also delightful.

Got the envie up on Envelopes board, the other on the Main page.

Hey Fike, 

I received your letter and excellent graphic art! Thank you!  I've been in Arizona for 10 days and I'll write you and let you know the update. Love, Bonniediva

Thank you for liking my poem, Ficus. I saw your homage (?) poem in the ascemic group. It was very nice. :}

Say, Fike, your fascinating cards+note arrived, thanks a lot. Glad you liked my envelope--but you forgot to open it. Check it out. Asemic! You'll blame the oversight on your age, so I will too. Won't you post your Picasso? N.B. 

That's it! The envelope looks 100% not opened, so you fooled my eyes completely. This we *can* blame on age, for starters. More than once a mail-art envelope turned out (say, a year later) to contain something I'd not realized at first. Love when that happens.

Oh, you keep sterling records, that's clear from what you sent me. You could send me your Leftwich contents from 2004 if you'd like, though, and not worry anymore about whether you responded. I could reply within, say, the current decade. 

• Happy Friending File! Will look forward to your mailing...happy New year *!*

Hi Ficus,

Happy Monday to You!

Something Orange is on it's way to you!

Went out today.

hi Fike, i have received your fab mail...thank you a lot! today i mailed an envelope  for you, hope you get it soon...happy weekend!

Awesome, thanks so much!

Happy Birthday, Ficus!

Sorry but you can't join the Groucho Marx Group. This is nothing personal, as no-one can join the Group. That's what Groucho wanted, and that's what happens. There are lots of other Groups though....

wow thanks for the message and these wonderful prints Fike! In a fantastic envelope with very nice stamps. all a treat. posting images in a few minutes. thanks again. 

Hi Ficus

I invite you to my project YOUR CITY.
I count on your participation

Regards

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