Policia Montada

A postcard that Spencer found in the UCSB library, in a copy of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I'm guessing it's from a Portuguese-speaking country somewhere south, where police don't actually ride anything that looks like gnus but will fake it for the purposes of self-mocking postcards that white people buy.

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Curiously, whoever filled this postcard out doesn't seem to have ever attached a stamp, which raises questions about how it ended up in Santa Barbara. Either way, the date would suggest that no one may have seen this thing since 2002.

These Lambs Ain't Silent

Very appropriate to have received on Halloween, this postcard came from the now-New York-located Kristen, who is attending grad school to learn how to make monster movies. I think.

It's a real film, and one that I might tack onto my Netflix queue. (I just hope I don't somehow get the other Black Sheep instead.) I could swear KrisDina and I had a conversation about this very possibility — or, more realistically, inevitability — while driving through a road-blocking flock while in New Zealand, but that could just be my imagination.

Read the back! The back!

A demographic of one indeed. And please note that stamp Kristen used to send this postcard bears a picture of Marvel comics superheroine and zombie ninja Elektra, making this the second association between a comic book character and Kristen this year.

For the record: another time sheep were disturbing.