To Bring You a Lucky New Year
I’m sending you “The Lucky Bird”—
He’s just good luck all over,—
His daddy was a horse-shoe
And his ma a four-leaf clover.[signed “1923 Fritz Marsh”]
We hit a bit of a holiday hiccup in December with a lack of posts. I think I speak for many of us when I say good riddance, 2011. And hello, 2012, with your Mayan promise of Armageddon in 344 days! We are so excited that we are already planning an End of the World party. I think tin foil hats are required?
In any case, I am sad about missing the opportunity to share a mother lode of vintage Christmas cards that are both horrid and wonderful. I promise to share them this coming Yuletide season. Being January 1st today, though, I’m happy to share this lovely vintage postcard gem, again from the archives of Liz‘s family.
The 1920s were obviously a crazy time when a horse shoe could go for a roll in the hay with a four-leaf clover and somehow create an avian hybrid with his neck in a knot. Lots of opiates in use, is all I can think of.
But it did give me a great idea for how to declutter my Facebook friends list without doing the de-friending myself: simply send a “lucky bird” in a Facebook message to people I don’t really want as my social networking buddy and wait for them to unfriend me. I feel like the following bird, first seen thanks to The Cotton Floozy, would be both effective and lucky if accompanied by a bad poem.
Any poets out there want to help a sister out?
