Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Spill It, or All the Lonely People

I ran across this intriguing book called PostSecret while shelving on Monday and couldn't help sitting down among the stacks to flip through it. Years ago, a man named Frank Warren began handing out postcards to strangers in the subway with the instructions to write a secret they had never revealed to anyone on it and to mail it to him. Slowly, anonymous postcards began to arrive at his door with sentiments and art that ranged from the tragically sad, humorous, and even shocking.

Here are a few that stood out:








And perhaps my favorite:


This person must have been so relieved when The Deathly Hallows came out and the Apocalypse did not.

4 comments:

Sara Baldwin said...

dann! you have a blog! i like it.

i really like postsecret now. thanks for sharing those!

Dann said...

Thanks, Sara! I'm also diggin' Postsecret.

Marcilyn said...

The All American Rejects had a music video that featured Postsecret.

Dann likes Postsecret + Postsecret in All American Rejects video =
Dann likes All American Rejects.

I knew you'd come around after I played you some of their sweet hits.

Dann said...

Look for the next Postsecret book with my postcard in it:

"I pretend to be all indie by going to shows, wearing thrift store clothes and posting unreleased M83 songs, but all I really want to do is stay home and listen to the All American Rejects."