Love the homage! It was the first thing I thought of when I saw “Yoyodyne,” the cover for the Red Lectroids.
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you make my day brighter with your warm regards.
this one card, i am very pleased with and i will be happy to go on at length about its creation at the appropriate time.
thank you, thanks for staying in the mix…
none of this means anything without you all.
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I can’t wait to hear more.
This was maybe the first one where I felt compelled to hold the card up for Mr Linkey and read, in a booming, strident tone, of course, the inscription on the back. Fun times.
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The i09 Dr. Lizardo was an actual MD, like our Docosc; he was an emergency room doc, if I remember correctly.
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This last card was a pretty great one to get, i wasn’t expecting a card today as it feels like i just got the last one (time sure does fly). But i also enjoyed getting it and looking it over 
as a bonus it was a topic of discussion with my partner and i got to tell her some trivia about some of the US presidents.
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Bully indeed! Thank you, gracias, dankeschön, merci!
Each time a card of yours shows up in the mailbox it brightens my day immeasurably. I’m putting together a way to display them that allows both sides to be readily visible. I’ll post a photo (spoiler blurred, of course) if it works.
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So yoyodyne is my oldest nom de plume. I started doing techno/industrial cassettes under the name way back in ‘88. As much as I love The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - I saw it IN THE THEATER, man! - I’d forgotten they used it in the movie when I nicked the name, from the same original source they did: Thomas Pynchon.
In The Crying of Lot 49, Yoyodyne is a huge, bureaucratic, banally evil aerospace weapons manufacturer. I was highly inspired by Public Image Ltd.’s corporate-front-for-subversive-music thing they were doing. I used to design yoyodyne letterheads and business cards. I even did a flash animation of a 3-D flying movie studio style yoyodyne logo! In flash!
ETA - my official yoyodyne logo is in all lowercase Futura extra-bold italic
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I’ve been thinking the same thing, some kind of gallery display of each series.
It would be nice to have a bunch of same sized frames, but for the back instead of the board typical of frames, have plexiglass or something. Or maybe just one large frame for each set with a plexiglass back?
Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
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Had I the $$$, I’d buy these.
They’re very rare, uncut sheets of a limited edition cardists’ deck - the Tally-Ho Viper.
Two sheets are available on ebay.
There are two massive walls alongside our front staircase. The taller one has two of the several cool masks - African and Asian - mom bought for that wall. The other is bereft of decor, and I’d love to en-plexiglass both Viper sheets, and display the face of one and the back of the other there.
The Viper deck is black and silver, my favorite color combination, and the fan back is also my favorite, with the little birdes and flowers
although there’s nowt wrong with the circle backs, which are hypnotical and also pretty!
A conventional blue circle back:
The Tally-Ho ace of spades is, well, aces!
and the face cards are V nice.
@ProfOddfellow b/c I know he’ll also like them, and for more than one reason XD
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I can think of a couple of different ways to display items that have art on both sides. Possibly the simplest would be to do glass/plexiglass and sandwich all the art in it, and use the whole thing as a screen or divider. Then you’ll be able to walk around the whole thing and easily enjoy the art on both sides.
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some folks who have been getting cards from me over the years have told me they use photo binders with clear sleeves to store and show them in.
this is made a bit difficult though, as my cards are generally 5.25x7.25 inches and that is too tight for a 5x7 sleeve. i use 6x9 sleeves and live with the roominess of it. it does allow me to add sleeves into the binder when it gets full.
it is fun to see them all together and you can see that i have a definite “hand” or stroke, or style of illustration to the etchings.
it really excites me that y’all would care enough to preserve my weird doodlings and thoughts like this. thank you!
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(sorry the Oneboxing is not ideal here:)
https://www.amazon.com/Lyeasw-Rotating-Standing-Floating-Vertical/dp/B0CJY8YSNL/
https://www.amazon.com/Sided-Transparent-Standing-Picture-Frame/dp/B0DNJNM86W?gQT=1
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those are cool. however, i send out around one a month (and have for some years), and not only would this get pricey, but also crowded! which is not to say that each of my missives should be archived.
i’ll leave that to recipients to decide.
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That would ba an amazing screen or partial wall!
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I plan to display mine on the wall. I have these cool plexiglass frames that I bought for some stamps about 25 years ago. I’m hoping to find something similar for @KeybillyJefe 's postcards. They aren’t UV protected, so I need to put them in our darker hallway.
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Jekyll and Hyde used the sample on Genius Rap and so did Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on It’s Nasty back when Genius of Love was a current release. but Mariah pretty much owns the claim on it being her sample at this point. the cool thing is, the single for Genius Rap has an instrumental version which is like 7 minutes of Genius of Love with no vocals at all (longer than the original) and you can remix it with whatever vocals you want.
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forgot to post these last night.
we made 20 dovetail drawers, 4 sides and a bottom is 100 custom cuts and then routing all the dovetails. took 2 days.
I needed a couple stiff drinks after.
we assembled them and installed them all today but I forgot to take a picture. they won’t look cool until next week when we put the drawer fronts on, though.
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I’m exhausted just looking at those dovetails 
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Yeah! All great blessings to all the skilled dovetailers across time!
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TIL, while tryinta find pics of examples of Ancient Egyptian dovetailing:
They invented mortise and tenon - “Historians believe that the first mortise and tenon joints were used during the Predynastic period (5500 – 3200 BCE).”
“They were the first to use pegs, leather lashings and dowels which improved the strength and resilience of these joints.” (same source as above, luv)
They invented the lathe
They invented veneering
They were the first to use varnishes
“…their craftmanship of timber has also stood the test of time and from as early as 7000 years ago, they were paving the way for centuries of carpentry. So, we’re in de-Nile if we don’t credit the ancient Egyptians for their woodworking achievements.” (ditto, re: source)
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