The Deets

January 26th, 2006General2 comments

I don’t like generic American flag stamps so I go to the post office to buy my stamps in person.

Last month I got the Buckminster Fuller stamps (inventor of the Geodesic Dome!). This time I got Favorite Childrens’ Book Animals.

Curious George plays with his food.

I like stamps. If you call me a nerd I will fight you.

I like how American institutions used to have grand, dramatic mottos:

“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

It makes being a postman sound so cool. It even makes it sound downright sexy. But these days the reputation of the postal service has been marred by Cheers’ Cliff Clavin, Running With Scissors’ Postal videogame, and Kevin Costner’s 1997 film The Postman.

But I salute you, postpeople. Unless you lose my mail, like when Jeanie sent me those cookies that never arrived. Then I hate you.

I read a bunch of LCC scripts. I now present to you the two greatest lines of dialogue ever written for an LCC show:

GARDENER
I just got back from a meeting and they are getting rid of all the trees.

TREE
Oh shit.

I think I believe in love again.