It’s postcard writing and music sharing time.
Music peeps, please share your links in the comments!
If anyone else has postcard photos they want to share, please send me your pics.
Last date to mail postcards is a week from tonight – Tuesday, March 28.
WaterGirl
oops, this didn’t post when it was scheduled, and I got a phone call and didn’t notice!
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Haha, it happens! Thanks for getting it all fixed up.
I’ve got another 22 postcards to address tonight.
If you’re up for writing in Spanish, there’s some additional language you can add to the Judge Janet postcards to support the Democratic mayor in Green Bay. I’m just sooo much slower in Spanish that I am probably going to do English language postcards for the next week or so.
H.E.Wolf
Thanks for keeping the postcard signal going! I just put 5 more in the mail yesterday for Janet Protasiewicz, via PostcardsToVoters.org .
Plugging along….
Mousebumples
@H.E.Wolf: Glad to hear it! Keep on keeping on, right?
BlueGuitarist
Thanks for posting!
I’m writing some more postcards for
Judge Janet Protasiewicz to flip the Wisconsin state Supreme Court
& Eric Genrich for Green Bay mayor
and for Judge Janet for Justice & Jodi Habush Sinykin for WI state senate district 8 to prevent Republicans from getting a 2/3 majority in the state senate and removing people from office for doing their jobs.
In a 50-50 state like Wisconsin, how are Republicans able to get 2/3 of the seats? The state Supreme Court lets Republicans gerrymander.
Listening to Reina del Cid covering When I Paint My Masterpiece for encouragement to improve my handwriting:
https://youtu.be/TfCAXV2QbGE
Scout211
In honor of the possible hush money indictment coming soon to a courthouse in NYC and also for the day we’ve had here in California, here’s and oldie but goodie by the Classics IV:
Stormy
H.E.Wolf
As a really slooow writer, my music offering tonight is Arlo Guthrie singing “The Garden Song” (“Inch by Inch…”) from his live-concert collaboration with Pete Seeger: Precious Friend.
[Note: minutes 3 through 5 can be skipped if Arlo Guthrie humor is not your thing]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obPs5R4-ss
My favorite lines from the introduction:
“I know everyone likes singin’ with Pete, but I learnt this song from Pete and it’ll be almost the same thing.”
“Pete does sumpin’ I can’t do – he sings the song twice at the same time.”
Alison Rose
Blind – Hercules & Love Affair
Life Under Water – Jerry Folk with Nevve
Hazel – Junior Boys
Heartbreaker – Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
Sweet the Sting – Tori Amos
schrodingers_cat
What kind of pen do you guys use when writing these postcards. I have a stack of GOTV postcards for the Wisconsin election that the chair of the Dem committee just dropped by, I usually write in ink or gel pen but those can get smeared hence the question.
Mousebumples
@BlueGuitarist: Awesome! Thanks for efforts. 🤩
We’re rewatching Ted Lasso (onto season 2) to refresh our memories about what happened before we jump into the new season 3 episodes.
BlueGuitarist
@H.E.Wolf: haha.
Love that album, and the story Arlo tells about Amazing Grace.
Mousebumples
@schrodingers_cat: A lot probably depends on your preferences, but I mostly have Pilot G2s. I also use superfine Sharpies for accent color.
But these can blur on more glossy cardstock, so they may not be right for all types of postcards.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: Excellent choice!
schrodingers_cat
@Mousebumples: I have Pilot G2s and Pentel Energels.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Guessing you have addresses to go along with the postcards?
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: Yes. I would think so. The chair got the stack from the local Indivisible chapter. I haven’t opened my pack yet. I am goofing off with my crayons and pastels instead.
WaterGirl
I’m still getting requests for addresses, so it’s not too late to start writing if you’re so inclined! Just send an email to watergirl at balloon-juice.com
Mousebumples
@schrodingers_cat: I mostly stocked up on Pilots when I was a Walgreens pharmacist and didn’t like the cheapo pens the pharmacy had, so I would keep my own in my jacket pockets.
They write really nice, but almost 5 years out of that job, and I still have a bunch of pens left!
BlueGuitarist
@schrodingers_cat:
I’m using various colors of pentel gel pens, and because you posed this question it has belatedly occurred to me that I should have different thickness instead of all .7 so that I could be writing the candidate’s name not only in a different color but bold. So thanks for asking! Hope your carandache (iirc) experience is going well.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: I have been trying to remember what happened in season 2!
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: I’m not sure I’ve heard that song before. Just 30 seconds in.
Oh, yes, of course I have!
schrodingers_cat
@BlueGuitarist: I like 0.5 thickness. Pentel’s 0.5 needle tip and Pilot G2s are my favorites. I also like Uniball Signo 207.
Caran’dache are gorgeous. I also got some pastels that are pearlescent. I love them, subtlety shiny and shimmery.
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl: emailed you from alternate email address.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Who could blame you?
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: I love Arlo Guthrie’s voice. I had forgotten how much.
edit: the drawing on the cover TOTALLY catches Pete Seeger and his energy.
WaterGirl
Now I’m listening to the Circle song sung by Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and it’s making me think of the Harry Chapin concert where we all sang it.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: ??
WaterGirl
Last date to mail postcards is a week from tonight – Tuesday, March 28.
Sure Lurkalot
I finished up my postcards and drove to the post office. I’m an impatient sort and the line was 3x the number of staff so I went to the self serve to see if it printed postcard stamps. The screen had a choice for alternative amount stamps and a postcard choice so I picked that for 20. I thought I would get 2 sheets of 10 printed but it printed 20 separate stickers, probably 3” x 1”, like you would put on a package. How anyone thought that would work on a postcard I just don’t know. So, impatient me had to go back home and trim them so they would fit without covering what was written and even then it obscured the “Valued Voter” I wrote on a couple of cards.
Lesson learned for next postcard drive.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: How frustrating, impressive that you can be a good sort about it!
H.E.Wolf
I use ballpoint pen and fountain pen.
However…
I’m left-handed, and ever since elementary school, I’ve been writing with a small piece of paper placed between my writing hand and the actual document I’m working on.
That takes care of most of the smears; I use White-Out on the rest of them. Using an ink eraser is too laborious. :)
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl:
subject line additional addresses, sent a follow up
H.E.Wolf
Me too.
schrodingers_cat
This didn’t win an Oscar but its better music than Nattu Nattu or even Jai Ho IMO. Features traditional Bhangra music
Yeh Desh hai veer jawano ka (This is a country of brave men…)
from Naya Daur (New Era)
Mousebumples
Postcard things – questions for WaterGirl and the music/postcarding crowd:
H.E.Wolf
I agree about the cover drawing! I chose the YouTube clip (there were several) for just that reason.
schrodingers_cat
Some cross dressing fun, so something that the Rs will hate..
Kajra mohhabat wala.
BlueGuitarist
@Mousebumples:
Curtis Mayfield, “Keep on keeping on”
https://youtu.be/rqK7Ck57nv0
H.E.Wolf
@Sure Lurkalot:[postcard stamp woes]
I’m impressed with your workaround!
This won’t help with long lines, but if postcard stamps are in short supply, currently (until prices change) 2 “extra ounce” stamps = 1 postcard stamp.
My mom is no longer able to write easily, so she mailed me a few pages of extra-ounce stamps as her contribution to the cause. I maintain that those postcards have extra Good Karma and will *definitely* influence the recipients to vote!
Wyatt Salamanca
Songs in memory of Bobbi Ercoline
Woodstock – Joni Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBmKi2xmoU
Going up the Country – Canned Heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0Dm-OaTNk
h/t https://deadline.com/2023/03/bobbi-ercoline-dead-woodstock-album-cover-obituary-1235304881/
H.E.Wolf
I’m about to disappear for the evening, so here’s a link to an image of the “Letters Mingle Souls” stamps from 50 years ago. Seems to me, we’re doing a bit of that with our postcard writing efforts – it’s more than merely GOTV.
https://www.vintagepostagestamps.com/product-page/10-letters-mingle-souls-24-stamps
prostratedragon
“Waters of March:”
Jobim solo;
Elis Regina & Jobim, live in studio.
Sure Lurkalot
I had a couple of 7mm Flairs that I liked best on the card stock I used to print the cards. They didn’t run or smear (I’m a lefty). After I finished my cards, I looked on Amazon to buy a color assortment for the next drive and put a set on my wish list.
On the way to the post office, I popped into an Office Depot and they had the same set 5 bucks cheaper, 12 assorted colors for $10.
Sure Lurkalot
@H.E.Wolf: I buy stamps on the USPS site so I plan on purchasing some soon to be ready for the next push.
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would!
Mousebumples
@Sure Lurkalot: I love being able to do GOTV from my couch, on my schedule! Postcard recipients don’t care if I’m writing late at night. 🤩
schrodingers_cat
Thanks for all the pen suggestion. So I have decided that I will use my Pentels and/or Pilot G2s
I have shared the Das sisters version of Tandav (Shiva’s Dance of Death) before. It is thing of beauty.
kalakal
Simply sublime guitar playing
Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia, John MacLaughlin
Mediterranean Sundance
Julian Bream
Bach Violin Sonata fugue
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples:
Green Bay is in Brown County, and that’s where the mayoral race is – at this point, we have only Latino addresses for that county, and those need to be written in Spanish.
But Voces can get me AA addresses for Green Bay on Thursday, and those of course will be in English.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples:
Yes, we can do the Tuesday postcard thread on Monday next week, for one last push before postcards have to be in the mail on Tuesday.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Works for me. I just asked for more addresses, and I always do addresses last. I’ll hold on writing the mayoral messaging in case there are any hiccups, but I’ll hopefully get those in the mail Thursday or Friday. 🤩
schrodingers_cat
@schrodingers_cat: *suggestions..
WaterGirl
Postcard / Election Post Schedule:
This Saturday 3/25 – we will have the music and postcards thread.
Next Monday 3/27 – we will have another postcard thread (instead of Tuesday).
Tuesday, April 4 – we’ll have a music and election results thread.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Appreciate the clarification! 🤩
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Let me know if I missed any of your questions!
WaterGirl
And we have our first postcard photo tonight. Very pretty!
Love the stars!
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: I think that covers it. Thanks for sharing the pic. I’m going for speed/quantity and not changing colors much mid postcard, but I thought the star sticker might catch the eye towards Judge Janet’s name. 🤞
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Smart choice!
WaterGirl
Sounds like Wis*Dems is trying to raise some funds for the Wisconsin election.
This will take you to the BJ donation page for them, if anyone is inclined to donate.
Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
kalakal
@WaterGirl: Thanks for that reminder.
Added a contribution
Trivia Man
I received a postcard today in the mail from San Francisco. Thanks! (But I am lready planning to vote)