Postcards from ...

[pasithea]

A friend of mine recently received a postcard from a friend of hers traveling across the US.

This was roughly what it looked like:

Greetings from Dumbfuckistan!

...

I admit it. I laughed.

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[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Aww man, this reminds me of something stupid yet kind of sad.

Here in Texas, they used to (like, decades ago) sell postcards depicting "The United States of Texas". It showed a cartoony map of the country, with Texas enlarged so as to touch all three coasts and both foreign borders, and all the other states were these little misshapen lumps around it with silly parody names like "Mrs. Yippy", "Old High", and "Color Radio". The New England states were mashed together into one mass called "Damn Yankeeland".

Typical Texas bullshit, I know, but recently I found myself thinking of it, and trying to remember what all the parody state names were. So I went to a CVS pharmacy to see if they were still selling it. They weren't. What they were selling instead was the updated version of that. Texas was gigantic as before, but the rest of the country was just this undifferentiated unnamed grey mass, and there was a caption at the bottom: "TEXAS - Who Cares About The Rest".

The original postcard was lovingly and painstakingly drawn by hand. The new card looks like it was banged out in two minutes in Illustrator. Bullshit though it was, I miss the old card.