#039: it’s texas that made austin cool

Postcard sent to my Austin buddy, Tucker Max, former notorious author and Founder of Scribe Media. I went to UT for college, so Austin has always had a big chunk of my heart, even though I’ve haven’t lived there in decades.

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#038: my own expectations

Postcard sent to author, blogger and activist, Cory Doctorow.

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#037: the great thing about being scottish

Postcard sent to Mark Blyth, Scots expat, Professor of Political Economy at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. This is a replacement card for the other one that got lost somehow. Sic transit gloria mundi.

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#036: this ain’t no john coltrane

Handmade postcard sent to Martin Gram, a very old and dear friend living in Copenhagen. A Danish photographer, we first met London in the early 1990s, and he was pretty much my best friend when I lived in New York.

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#035: sushi bar

Postcard sent to Jenny Niven, co-founder of pushtheboatout.org and former head of literature at Creative Scotland.

This was an old memory from Japonica in Greenwich Village, New York, circa 2013. Funny how totally random moments never leave you.

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#034: kitchen table drawings 2

Anothere handmade postcard sent to Elspeth Murray, the Scottish poet.

It’s a line I’ve used before, but it seemed like an idea Elspeth would really relate to, so I sent it along. Sometimes I do that- find an idea I really like, and try to find new ways to play with it. All artists do this.

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#030 just arrived…

Scottish Project #030 just arrived in Glasgow. A wee bit of damage top left corner, but that’s normal.

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#033: industrialized hopelessness

Hand-drawn postcard sent to Christ Chirnside, in Trinity, Edinburgh.

Chris was a regular at the bar I used to work at as a student. We became friends; we’re still in touch, 35 years later.

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northumberland street

Scottish Project #008 arrived in Northumberland Street, Edinburgh. Looks like it got more than its fair share of postmarks.

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all the sinners

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Another one landed…

Another hand-drawn postcard landed in Scotland, this time #028, sent to Susie Verden-Anderson, an old school chum. They all seem to get marked with this orange stripe in transit- I’m guessing that’s a UK postal thing, not a US Mail thing.

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Focusing on myself

Kinda sums up a lot of conversations I had while living out in LA, California. More to do with the people I was hanging out with, than the city as a whole.