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Alicia sent this piece that fascinates me: The ragged edges along with the hints of rulers, punch cards, hole punch -- favored office supplies of not long ago -- make an intriguing combination. And it's all brought up to date with her wonderfully loose asemic writing.  I see punch cards because those little horizontal marks in varying rows remind me of the stacks of punch cards…

 Imagine my surprise when I found an envelope from GA in my mailbox with a familiar Hello Kitty stamp on it. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, rubbed them a little bit stronger, but it was really him, sending me mail from the Peninsula, one of the best hotels in Tokyo. The one and only Grigster was downtown, a few stops down the Yurakucho line, and he didn't tell his…

... in that I whooped and hollered, I'm so thrilled with it:

To me this is a really fine work that includes elegance, contemporaneity + history, and mystery. The red and black/brown giving the face its soft-tissue structure and expression are a bold move, one that I find very successful.  The eyes are fascinating and enigmatic -- sometimes I see them as spookily blank,…

Whether we're scorned or forgiven, the fish will still be swimming. Thanks, Guido!…

Yesterday My mailbox contained my first blessed gift from Cathérine Petré.  Oh!  You know how, sometimes you receive an article in the mailbox, and you just know it's going to contain something amazing, and you open the envelope with a reverence as though it were a thousand-year-old document archived at the Smithsonian, and you pull things out of the envelope without breathing…

Rose-wing beauty!

Elegant Pelican!

Ahmet Demir also creates amazing mini-artistamps with these birds. Puzzleposta reigns!…

by Mim

by Bruno

Cards, stickers, prints, images, watercolors, too. all the makings for a few new add n' pass works!

This watercolor portrait card I shall keep and treasure, not to be passed along ;-)…

Thanks to Judith Heartsong, Alexeeva Natalia, Valentine Mark Herman and Brent Leopold!

Judith sent shredded US dollars,,,great shredpo…

***SPOILER ALERT: Don't read if you wish to discover the secret of the "Most Valuable Stamp Mystery" on your own!  

I get home from a workday I'd like to forget, and what's waiting for me in my mailbox?  Hmmm... a non-descript envelope, no return address.  I crack open a bottle of Big Sky Summer Honey Ale -- 'cause it's been that kinda day -- open the envelope, which is full of cut-up pieces of paper... unfold them and the enclosed "anonymous" note, and literally BLOW BEER SUDS OUT MY…