Happy New Year!
I can't believe it is the year 2020. It sounds like the title of a sci-fi movie.
Here is my new year card for 2020:
My first version of this card included the caption, "Unpopular TV: Bedtime Stories With Dick Mikeman". My wife thought it was "pervy" so I removed it. The card is funny by itself without any explanation. The picture is of me sitting-in for lighting on the set of a commercial. Sometimes gaffing can be a lot of fun.
I've been doing these cards since 1997! The idea was stolen from a client who sends out their own humorous cards each year.
2020 seems like a milestone year: the beginning of a new decade; a time for hope and renewal.
Looking back 20 years, the year 2000 seemed like a milestone year, too; briefly it seemed like everything was going to be better in the world. We can only hope and work that the new decade will bring a better world to everyone.
Here is my new year card for 2000:
This was my most serious new year card. The front is a photo I took of the comet Hale-Bopp. There is no caption. On the inside was this short poem:
PS: Here is a bonus new year card from the past, one of my favorites, from 1999:
Like most of my early new year cards, this was made "South Park style" with the different elements being paper cutouts arranged and photographed.
I can't believe it is the year 2020. It sounds like the title of a sci-fi movie.
Here is my new year card for 2020:
My first version of this card included the caption, "Unpopular TV: Bedtime Stories With Dick Mikeman". My wife thought it was "pervy" so I removed it. The card is funny by itself without any explanation. The picture is of me sitting-in for lighting on the set of a commercial. Sometimes gaffing can be a lot of fun.
I've been doing these cards since 1997! The idea was stolen from a client who sends out their own humorous cards each year.
2020 seems like a milestone year: the beginning of a new decade; a time for hope and renewal.
Looking back 20 years, the year 2000 seemed like a milestone year, too; briefly it seemed like everything was going to be better in the world. We can only hope and work that the new decade will bring a better world to everyone.
Here is my new year card for 2000:
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| Comet Hale-Bopp was a spectacular once-in-a-lifetime comet |
This was my most serious new year card. The front is a photo I took of the comet Hale-Bopp. There is no caption. On the inside was this short poem:
at the end of two thousand years
does entropy reign
does hope expire
at the end
is the beginning
when
should one fortuitous moment in time
crystal
be more than a moment transient
at this beginning
hope
now
begins
in every moment
now
PS: Here is a bonus new year card from the past, one of my favorites, from 1999:
Like most of my early new year cards, this was made "South Park style" with the different elements being paper cutouts arranged and photographed.