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Being seen
Even though any of our new Blog entries brings an onslaught of mostly Russian spam about casinos, porn, and drugs into the Comments for Moderation area — endemic to the WordPress structure — we just keep pushing this river uphill. These “bots” scan for new entries and start their attack on us — not you […]
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https
OK, school is open now. If you already know what “https” means, you can skip ahead … or, just keep reading and be grateful it’s not happening to you. If you’re on the internet, look near the top of your screen, and you’ll see the address (URL) of whatever site you’re visiting. Most likely […]
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Reproductions
Love them? Hate them? Couldn’t care? In our experience, not a lot of folks fall into that first category. We suppose different people might define reproduction postcards in different ways, but here we’re talking about old cards whose photos have been made into new ones, like the example from Philippines we’ve used to illustrate […]
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U.S. Presidents, The Lot of Them
Let’s open by acknowledging that a majority of our Blog readers are neither American nor live in the U.S. Yet still, we have that theme category because … well, just because. Given that postcards didn’t go into circulation much before the late 1800s, that meant about half of all presidents had come and gone […]
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No-No’s
Decades ago, a pop song’s lyrics went “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to …” Well, it’s our website and we’ll post what we want to — for all sorts of reasons, good and bad. Sometimes, we don’t want to. Sometimes, we can’t. This is meant, generally, to be a family-friendly […]
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Hospitals
What could be more appropriate during these trying times than a few words about hospital postcards. The category is so important, we actually have two: Hospitals, and Asylum/Sanitarium. Don’t get bored yet! No, a hospital isn’t just a hospital. Browse through the cards and you’ll see several different types: private, university, state, military, specialised […]
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Tatiana
Long-time readers know that we give special shout-outs once in awhile about friends who’ve made significant contributions to the site, or to our knowledge of postcards in general. This time, we’re writing about Tatiana in Romania, someone we’ve never met in person, but come to know well after years of correspondence and postcards and recipes […]
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Mail
This virus is like the house guest who promises to stay for three days, then not only doesn’t show any signs of leaving but starts inviting relatives over too. Most of us — and we include you, wherever you are — are learning to accommodate all the small and big changes, restrictions, and effects of […]
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Of course … the virus
We thought — like SARS — that COVID-19 would have gone away by now. Clearly not. If you’re thinking “what does this have to do with postcards?”, we’ll tell you. We don’t know where all our readers live. You probably already know, though, that we’re based in Hong Kong. Compared to […]
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Manga ( 漫画 )
If you don’t know about Manga, our best advice: get your cup of coffee and head immediately to the Wikipedia entry that explains everything yet nothing. The thing is, if you’re Japanese or Chinese or Korean you probably know all this anyway. If not, of course you might already be a fan. Or, you could […]
