Tag Archive for 'Edgar Allan Poe'

New Edgar Allen Poe Commemorative Stamps

My Aunt Matilda wanted to work at the post office until she found out that the postal officers don’t actually lick the stamps and envelopes. She was crushed. Ever since she was a little ghoul it was her dream job because she loved the flavor of the adhesive and getting paper cuts on her tongue. Now she asks all of us to lick her envelopes for her and sighs sadly. “Licking these would just remind me of how hard life can be.”

Speaking of stamps, I just found out that the US Postal Service has come out with commemorative Edgar Allen Poe stamps to celebrate his 200th birthday. They are delightfully horrible! I have already bought one and I plan to frame it and hang it in a prominent place in my basement.

Deadly and Weird Orchid

While hacking my way through the dark jungle at my local Trader Joe’s I found this delightful orchid, who I adopted and have named Samantha after the famous witch. I hope she turns out to be especially diabolical or deadly, like the Death Orchid of Borneo, which shoots poison quills, or the Irish Witch-Fire Orchid which grows only in the most remote peat bogs and whose ghostly lights lead lost travelers to untimely deaths in the night. My blood thrills with the possibilities!

Stay tuned here to find out.

Samantha the Orchid