Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Wednesday Post


Greetings from the Upper Midwest
Reader la gringisima reinvents the vintage boring postcard.

These genre-perfect but cheerfully subversive postcards were posted on the gringa's blog here a few months ago, and I'm almost sure she gave me permission to share them here.






5 comments:

Christine M. said...

Well, I *guess* it's ok to post them ;-)

One quibble -- southern Ohio and Illinois are the lower Midwest.

mrs.5000 said...

These are awesome. Maybe a little depressing. But certainly awesome.

Michael5000 said...

We could quibble, gringa. But I should warn you that I did graduate work under James R. Shortridge, author of "The Midwest: Its Meaning in American Culture," the authoritative work on perceptual regionalism in the United States. Long story short: where "the Midwest" (and its jaunty subdivisions) "is" ("are") varies in a relativistic-like fashion depending on the observer.

Christine M. said...

Perhaps, but the Midwest doesn't get any lower than southern Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. I say this a native :-) On the other side of the Ohio River you start bumping uglies with the South.

The Upper Midwest is Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and whatnot.

Christine M. said...

Or we could go by dialects: http://www.pdviz.com/us-regional-accents-where-do-you-fit-in

Gonna go warsh my hair now...