Let’s talk about the goodness of Anonymous Postcard for a minute. It’s so many things rolled into one, I don’t know where to begin. And yet it’s so simple. Love something? Hate something? Just have something to say? Submit a claim to Anonymous Postcard and artist Tucker Nichols will repurpose a found object, write your claim on it, and send it to the intended recipient. The great thing is that people actually respond. When I first saw this website I became obsessed with thinking about a lifetime of claims I could submit, potentially saving me from having to go into therapy.

For Christ’s sake, I live in Berkeley. Every day I practically have an epileptic seizure from all the crazy shenanigans all up in my hee-haw. (Do you know I’ve owned the URL “www.lovehateberkeley.com” for several years?) Now every time something horrible, terrific, or perfectly mundane happens, I think “claim.” I’ve got too many claims swimming around with the rocks in my head that I haven’t even been able to submit one yet. Here’s a perfect example of one taken from Anonymous Postcard:

Claim No.:
005820080911

To:
Employees of Panda Gifts, New Orleans, LA

Claim:
A co-worker who was on a business trip to New Orleans last month brought me back a voodoo doll. It’s nice. I keep it on my computer. It looks like this.

The instructions on the tag say that I can “place a personal item (like hair) inside the cloth to capture a part of [a person's] soul.” It comes with pins that I can stick into the doll, to cast a spell on that person.

Here’s my concern: Do you guys wear hairnets when you put these things together? Because I don’t want to stick pins in this thing thinking I’m hurting my boss, when really I’m hurting someone in New Orleans. Y’all have suffered enough.

Good stuff man, good stuff.