Cards even I could love -- err, mildly like

[lsanderson]

Don’t Care to Send the Very Best?
By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN

A few weeks ago, Laura Bonner received an e-mail alert at her office computer: A friend she hadn’t heard from in ages had sent her an electronic greeting from a Web site called Someecards.com. “I think I actually groaned,” said Ms. Bonner, 26, a subsidiary rights manager for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. “I mean, really, an e-card?”

Ms. Bonner ignored the message for as long as she could. Finally, at day’s end, she clicked on the link, expecting to find a typically treacly online greeting, the kind that assaults the eyes and ears with bright colors and cloying music. Instead she saw a simple sketch of a smiling elderly man in a bowling shirt, with a caption that read: “I’m glad we stay mildly interested in each other’s lives.”

“I laughed out loud,” she recalled. “I was instantly obsessed with the site.” More

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You have made my whole whole whole day!

K.

Glad to be of service!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Now all I gotta do is find a good source for obscene ones... ;-)

Re: Glad to be of service!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Post a link when you do.

"We suggest you e-mail them to friends, family, coworkers, loved ones, liked ones, and anyone else with fingers."

K.