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:
Well, I *guess* it's ok to post them ;-)
One quibble -- southern Ohio and Illinois are the lower Midwest.
These are awesome. Maybe a little depressing. But certainly awesome.
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.
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.
Or we could go by dialects: http://www.pdviz.com/us-regional-accents-where-do-you-fit-in
Gonna go warsh my hair now...
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