Postcard from San Diego

I got another postcard. This one’s from Joe Crawford, all the way over in San Diego.

Both sides of a postcard. The text reads: I enjoy your blog. I enjoy books. I enjoy using the mails. I love the idea of using proper mail to internet aquaintances. I acquired this postcard last year in San Francisco. I hope you enjoy it. Best. - Joe (ARTLUNG.COM). The front shows a photograph from a San Francisco street, showing City Lights Booksellers & Publishers' shop front.
Cute card, too. I appreciate the “stop the deportations” banner on this San Fancisco bookshop!

I first started soliciting Internet strangers to send me postcards three months ago and I’m still loving it.

It adds a layer of humanity and personality to the Web. It introduces me to cool new people, and re-introduces me to cool people whom I’d crossed paths with at a distance: Joe’s one of the latter, but I’ve now taken the time to ensure he’s in my RSS reader… and, by proxy, in my blogroll.

I don’t have a return address for anybody who posted anything to me, yet (obviously I’d have masked it out from the postcard if I had!), but I feel like I ought to buy some postcards now too. It’s only a matter of time.

And hey, maybe there’s mileage in starting an Personal Web Postcards Club or something…