Arthur D. Hlavaty

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A while back I wrote something to memorialize a childhood hobby, stamp collecting:
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A Horrible Example of what happened to postage stamps was the small Asian country of Bhutan, which printed stamps on all sorts of materials that were not made for them (plastic, metal) and would honor anything people would pay for. The ultimate inadvertent satirical extension was stamps that could be played as records. Here’s a post about it.

Thanx to Metafilter

ETA: Oh, and while I am at it: Those four ugly, vague things the Postal Service is going to excrete for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek are presumably what they are reduced to when they don’t want to pay royalties.

Jon Carroll remembers San Francisco way back before the Summer of Love.

When magazines roamed the Earth

Thanx to pgdf in theinferior4