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Miscellaneous postcards to Flink (2017-2018)

September 17, 2018 by campbell Leave a Comment

A postcard collage of a scene from Joshua Tree National Park, juxtaposed with an image of a flying, elaborately costumed woman and the text "Rock 'n' Roll Sensation"

03 April 2017

Flink! Congrats on the new job, man.


Collage of a wanted poster for Bigfoot, alias Ronald Reagan

15 November 2017

Hey Flink — I made this a long time ago. Something told me that now is the time to send it. Enjoy.


A drawing of a chilled-out lizard wearing a hat, holding a can of beer, sitting on a park bench, saying "yeah."

11 January 2018

Hey man — No real reason for sending this. Just felt like drawing something.


Postcard collage of a drawing of a woman wearing tie-dye overalls in front of text that says "POWER" and a weird circle graphic thing

10 May 2018

Hey man, good news, I finally found Bigfoot. One day he just walked right into my mailbox and got stuck. He is smaller than I was led to believe. “Don’t be an idiot, of course Bigfoots come in different sizes,” he told me. So now I know.


A collage of a man holding a microphone and pointing upward, with text that says "peaking"

Miscellaneous postcards to Tom (2017-2018)

September 3, 2018 by campbell Leave a Comment

25 March 2017

Hey TW — No special reason for writing today. Just found a blank postcard kicking around and thought I’d send it to you. But first I need to write on it. No one likes receiving a blank postcard.

You’ll notice that this postcard alleges to have been “mailed by mule”; this is not true. I mailed it from the regular post office at the top of the canyon, where trucks pick up mail. Mules get mail from the bottom … and that’s where I got this postcard, but I hiked out without writing it. Now I’m writing it to you, so there you go.

I found it when I was clearing out old stuff, making space on shelves in anticipation of the new baby’s arrival. I guess all babies are new babies. No one’s ever like, “Damn, you just gave birth to the oldest baby ever,” and then the baby complains about how much less expensive milk was when he was a fetus in the 1920s. Anyway, I had serious stuff to tell you, but now I’m out of room.


Postcard with a headset-wearing man saying "Time to get that thing you always wanted" above the text "two cookie for cordless phones"

22 May 2017

Hey TW — I hope all is well with you. Due date is fast approaching. To help prepare fro the new baby’s arrival I have replaced the broken horn on the family wagon with an upgraded, louder model — safety first, and that’s why I opted for the Freeway Blaster. “¡La bocina extremadamente potente 133 dB!” Truer words were never written. I finally got that thing I always wanted.


Postcard with text and a drawing of a baby on it

05 July 2017

Hey TW — Enclosed here is a sticker that says “Toms.” Stick it on your stuff! That way everyone will know it’s yours. Add an apostrophe if you want to more clearly convey the intended possessive message. How are you? How is life? Are you doing a good job at fatherhood? Everything I’ve seen makes it look super hard, so if you have any tips please pass ’em on. Did you know that babies can’t drive? You have to take them everywhere they need to go!


Collage of woman with sunglasses removed to show truck headlight, emblem, and brush guard

15 November 2017

TW — We got to get you out here to canyon country. Or if you want, I’ll have some time in February during the off season and we can each just walk to a pre-arranged meeting point in central Nevada if that’s convenient for you. Central Nevada is about halfway between us, I figure.


Postcard collage of two fishermen in a canoe, one clutching an oar and the other holding a gun; both men appear startled as they stare toward the opposite shore; text says "The threat isn't over yet"

09 May 2018

There in the woods he lurks … waiting … waiting … waiting to steal your beer. A twig snaps. You hear the fearsome hominid flee … but the threat isn’t over yet. Bigfoot could still strike at any moment, like a bolt of hairy lightning, pilfering your cooler and leaving you thirsty.


Open It Up

June 7, 2016 by campbell Leave a Comment

Postcard collage of car on fire, with the body separating from the chassis, with text that says "Open it Up"

Great Big Letter

May 24, 2016 by campbell Leave a Comment

Collage of an old yellow car in front of a night sky in the wilderness

I have a friend named Flink. We send each other stuff in the mail. In 2012, I started work on an enormous letter to him. I call this project the Great Big Letter. Various parts of the Great Big Letter were written at various times between 2012 and 2015.

Photograph showing the bookbinding process of the great big letter
The bookbinding process.
The postcard above — written in late 2011 and announcing a hot new missive arriving in your mailbox sometime before 2014 — assumed a lengthy but somehow still wildly optimistic timeframe. This estimate was based on a previous Very Long Letter I had written to Flink over the course of several months in late 2010.

The Very Long Letter of 2010 was somewhere north of 100 pages. The Great Big Letter contains over 160 pages of text, and almost as many pages of collage. It was a different writing process.

The end result was a disgusting-looking ball of paper. So I scanned every page, printed the letter, and neatly bound it. The finished product is a thick brick of text that doubles as a doorstop.

The finished product, a thick brick of text, sitting on a table next to a coffee mug for scale.

I’ve posted a few snippets from the letter on Fully Psyched, and will likely be posting a few more every now and again. You can view all these excerpts by going to the category page for the Great Big Letter.

Industry secret

April 27, 2015 by campbell Leave a Comment

Postcard collage of bird and Hells Canyon with text that says Legendary Adventures Require Legendary Flavor. Reverse side of postcard collage showing Hells Canyon and bird.

Message on postcard:
Shannon and Ann — It was good to hear from you! Sorry I can’t make it to your summer party this year. The dogs are good and I’m working as a hiking guide here at Grand Canyon. You might be wondering, then, why I’m sending you a postcard of Hells Canyon. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Sometimes, when Grand Canyon is full, we’ll substitute in another canyon. Hells Canyon is a popular replacement, but we’ll also use Cataract Canyon, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Canyon de Chelly, Waimea Canyon, and the Columbia River Gorge. Every now and then we’ll do a fjord or a crevasse, but they’re a little tricky. Visitors almost never notice, though.

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