The Blessed Father's Comments

But it must have cost you a fortune to produce the 'hell' card. 

Sounds great BF, in time for christmas then :) Here I have only made an eraser  with an old time aeroplane as subject. Discarded 10 other erasers with portraits before this one, thought I would use it for "airmail". Now  boatmail or oatmail, I'll see what's next.. Take care. EH

BF - processing and handling $$ went out yesterday with some fluxus bucks too.  Let me know if you don't receive.  Thanks again!

BG

OK, sometimes I clean 'em. But I use a shallow dish of water and then stamp old papers, in case I get a good print. Sometimes they are amazingly ghostly. Or just messy blobs.

Opened my mail yet?

The rain god will not challenge The Postal Rain Coat!
Uh, today we got eight degrees below zero, it equals about 17 in farenheit..
A week free from work is approaching, finally got some time to do some more crap in the evenings. :)

Clean them after using? Oh Gawd, life's to short to clean stamps. Or anything for that matter... (so warn me a month in advance if you ever come to visit!)

Great, it got there!! You're not a veggo are you? Well, they're just pictures of sossies, not real ones, so you might enjoy the catalogue anyway. I'd had it wrapped and on the shelf for ages, then one day I thought, 'That's mail art!'

Thanks for checking about the rubber for me, might just ditch it.

Can't wait!  (If I didn't know any better, I'd start asking questions like, "Does it hurt?" or "How long does it take?")

BF, Thank you for your gracious mailing of perforated prettiness. I am very much in awe of how happy your mailings make me. :) I owe you two good pieces of mail. Will work on something just for you this weekend. Thank you again. I am blessed. B

a return address on the envelope is always good......

Sorry, I missed the polymer Qu. I think it's actually better than rubber , although I don't really know my rubber like you do. Apparently the clear stuff lasts forever. I have a few rubber stamps that have hardened and cracked, is there any way to bring them back to life or do I chuck them?

John

Hi Blessed Father, Yes received the Steiner stamps. Very much appreciated. Sorry for delay in answering the mail. I get in more mail-art and e-mail sometimes as I can answer.... with best wishes, Ruud

Blogged! :)

Hell yeah, send me the Stein, Mr Steiner!! Love 'em. What's a scream stamp? I did a Munch Scream carving a while back, you've probably seen it, did Nick carve you one? Anyway, you don't have to ask if I want anything because the answer is always a resounding and greedy YES!!

I feel bad for telling you the shadow was cut now. You needn't have remade it!

ps. that muscle man is a ripper, reminds me of comic ads from when I was 10! The ones where they say, "Are you sick of being wimpy and having sand kicked in your face" or something like that. Ha ha, or maybe you modelled it on yourself?

BF,

Can I post page 11 of the inaugural edition of Stretch Marks, the rubber stamp art zine, from 1994 in the Archives group here at IUOMA?  It shows your 'Church of Right Now' spoof of forgiveness of sins.  It is hilarious.  Do you remember?  Roslyn M. Stendahl put it out.

Regards,

BG

No, no, there's no need to make a new postal kid, I'm very happy with my only very slightly faulty one!! It's only the shadow anyway, and it's mounted and I love it as is. Yep. Cheers.

I would like that very much - I love your stamps. I am working on something for you - just at the idea stage though!