August 29, 2006: From 12 to ????
A long time ago, in the company of Erik, I realized that there isn't a Print Shop Deluxe-like, easy template method for a funeral invitation. Not to make light of things which are very serious in nature, like death, but I have always found the idea of a boilerplate Microsoft Word template for a funeral invite, with standard features like a Who/What/When/Where/Why, to be really amusing.
Lo and behold, in reading Printed Ephemera, I discovered such a thing. Printed Ephemera covers the less respectable end of printing history, namely the little things (labels, wrappers, flyers, business cards, invitations) which predated even the printing of the Gutenberg bible. And so:
Comments
ye olde death invites?!
Posted by: tim maides | August 29, 2006 2:55 PM
I'm not inviting Steve. That dude's a cunt
Posted by: joel | August 29, 2006 3:04 PM
"Liften, if you don't have a ticket, you don't get in. No exceptionf."
- Devil, 1736
Posted by: jc | August 29, 2006 7:01 PM
interesting...
Posted by: bryant | August 29, 2006 10:55 PM
_____ died! Please bring your swim trunks and extra clothes this Saturday...
so i deleted my blog but i still read around
Posted by: erik | August 29, 2006 11:26 PM
If I die will you make my funeral invitations?
Posted by: rob | August 30, 2006 1:04 AM