This issue of Vile, number 7- Winter 1979, is really the crowning jewel (it’s also the most difficult to photograph– the paper is awfully fragile and, since it’s bound with a metal tab nearly impossible to open completely).  Made in an addition of 300, this issue includes original works from artists who used rubber stamps.

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VILE magazine, International Double Issue, p. 91

We all know the difficulties it causes to receive the lot of mail we do every day.
That postal authorities have managed to get any item from one address to another is of course not intolerable, but the items themselves derived from and deprived of the postal reference must concern [...]

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First, how do you like the site’s re-design?  I’m diggin’ the new banner but worried that the blue-brown is a) cliche and b) a bit dark.  It’s still winter, after all, and something about this brown just doesn’t feel quite as happy as I’d hoped it might.
After several days without mail delivery (the horror!) due [...]

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“(89/365) One day this will be extinct” in Sarah G.’s Flickr Stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
I came across this passage in Posting It and just had to share it with you all:
[Anthony Trollope's character, Jemima Stanbury], placed little confidence in [pillar post boxes]: ‘She had not the faintest belief that any letter put into one [...]

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I’m about half way through of Catherine Golden’s book Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing.  I saw Professor Golden speak a few weeks ago at the National Postal Museum and really enjoyed her lecture. I have to admit, I didn’t know that the postage stamp didn’t come around until 1840!  I did know [...]

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Jon and I went to see Sherlock Holmes this weekend.  It’s a great film if, and only if, you are okay with it being not really anything like the books or the Jeremy Brett version.  Robert Downy Jr. and Jude Law are just too handsome to be Holmes and Watson really– and since when did [...]

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We did not have any nooks in our last apartment.  In part this was because our old apartment was itself more or less just a nook.  Plus, we had a huge closet that we actually had to use for storage (I know!) instead of turning it into a special sub-room or something.  Anyway, that is [...]

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There are days when I love living in DC.  Yesterday was one of those days.  I’ve been reading an interesting book called The Race Beat about the reporters in the South who covered the Civil Rights movement.  It is hardly an uplifting book, I have such a hard time reading about the Civil Rights movement, [...]

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A friend suggested I read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” but promptly warned me that this book would probably terrify me and chill my soul.  She was right on both accounts.  There is little for me to add to the many, many articles and television segments that have been created on this book. It is a [...]

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An image of the Library Bath (via DecoJournal and NotCot)
Hello new friend.  The Library Bath?!  My G-d, I’d never leave the tub.  Sure, you might splash on your books but wow… can you imagine?  And the top is flat, so you can put your wine there.  This delightful tub comes from Swedish designer Malin Lundmark [...]

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