Friday - November 20, 2009

A Nice Touch

Thinking of thinking about how to contact your far flung friends and family for Thanksgiving? Don’t want to spend hours on the phone running up the bill or face Walmart and the Post Office and buy a whole passel of greeting cards?

Peiper gave me a subscription to the online animated Jackie Lawson greeting card site as a birthday present. Thanks Jay, this is great! They have a wide selection of cards for every occasion, and you can sign up for a year’s worth for a very reasonable amount. Send as many cards as you like. Their animations are fairly simple but their artwork is very nice. And almost all of them are set to a decent bit of music. Plus, they have a whole series of cards featuring Chudleigh the animated Labrador Retriever. Chudleigh even has his own set of Pelmanism game cards (remember the TV game show Match Game?) to make them even more fun.


This year’s newest Thanksgiving card gives old Chudleigh some time off, and features Bertie and Fluff instead.

The music for this one is from the peaceful middle passage of the first movement of Dvorak’s Symphony #9, The New World Symphony, a piece of music that has been used so extensively in film and cartoons that’s it’s become a bit of Americana, even though Dvorak himself was Czech, and most of his music was strongly influenced by the folk music of his native Bohemia. Hey, he wrote this one about us, so it’s ours now.


See? You get a bit of klazzical edgamacation here at BMEWS every day!



Link to Jackie Lawson Greeting Cards.

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