The uber hot Whiskey Marie sent me this incredibly cool old postcard and I got it today! I adore the creepy ethereal baby, it will haunt my tortured dreams during this sacred Halloween season. Thanks for taking time out of your busy remodeling and cat slave schedule to think of me Ms. Marie!!
The rest of you, with the exceptions of Wisconsin Ed and his lovely wife Suzy the Quaker Vixen and FranSheIs, need to get off your butts and show me some swag love. If you want to that is, it's entirely up to you and it's not like I'll stop writing this shit if you don't send me anything because I'm hooked on this blogging stuff now.
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How do I get your address? Maybe then I'd consider sending swag.
MAYBE.
That baby sure is creepy awright.
Helen-Shoot me an email to monkeymuck@gmail.com and I'll give you my address if you give me yours. :0)
"I'm hooked on this blogging stuff now."
Don't ever stop. You're the best.
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That thing would drive me to drink easily.....
I prefer to wait until the last minute to get off my lazy @ss and send you swag. Unless you feel like divulging your address.
enc-Shoot me an email and I'll be glad to send you my address if you send me yours as well.
What would make it even creepier is if it was a dead baby. Do we know if the kid had a pulse?
I'm not evil.
I had to follow up on my comment. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was very common for people to take photos of the dead. Check it out:
http://www.gravesights.org/postmortem.htm
There are oodles more posted online. Just an FYIer.
I mailed it to you to get it out of my house.
You're welcome.
;)
Katie Schwartz echoes my thoughts. There's a book that has been in and out of print several times, called Wisconsin Death Trip. It is filled with funereal photographs of people, many babies (but then again so many babies died in the not so distant past) interspersed with bizarre news stories culled from the newspaper in Black River Falls, WI in the 1890s.
(An independent film was made of it a few years ago too; I haven't seen it, but an old high school friend was in it, so I really should track it down.)
Here is a link for the film. Read the review from the NYT, paying special attention to the part about "the great depression of the 1890s." See if it doesn't sound chillingly familiar.
http://www.wisconsindeathtrip.com/
Hey, and if you're ever driving through Wisconsin, say you're going from Madison up to the Twin Cities to have a chat with Michele Bachmann, you'll know Black River Falls by the giant orange fiberglass moose that can be seen from the interstate.
We see that moose every trip to my BIL's place in WI. They have a "cabin" at Yogi - super fun time for the kids with waterpark, skateboard park, parents drinking and letting them eat an entire crate of marshmallows ;)
Mommy -- I love that you know the orange moose ...
Oooh -- I think I might have a postcard of the orange moose in my glove compartment! And I DO know Dr. Monkey's address. Bwahahahaha.
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