Mistigram: Why has AdeptApril drawn a #PostageStamp in #ANSIart? Is it national philately day? Not quite: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" isn't just paraphrased in Laurie Anderson's "O Superman", this phrase (derived from Herodotus describing the courier service of the Persian Empire under Xerxes I) is carved into New York City's James A. Farley Post Office, which opened in 1914 on this day.
Mistigram: we have learned from AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen that today is Fight #Procrastination Day, but if you wanted to postpone engaging that particular challenge until the weekend... I don't think it would be the end of the world. (Maybe next month would be even better!)
Mistigram: We have a tantalizing delicacy from AdeptApril's daily #ANSIart calendar to share with you today, celebrating the savory fried South Asian pastry on World #Samosa Day. Get out the chutney and save some raita for me!
Mistigram: when AdeptApril first drew this #ANSIart calendar, a few years ago, today's date fell on the first Friday in September, which is designated Wear #Teal Day to raise ovarian cancer awareness. (Confusingly, there is another Wear Teal Day in April, to show support for survivors of sexual harassment and abuse. Maybe we all should just be wearing more teal, generally?)
Mistigram: faceless black monolithic edifices, safe deposit boxes in the sky? Check and check! Look up, way up, and try not to get your wallet pickpocketed as you celebrate National #Skyscraper Day, as AdeptApril has done here in #ANSIart.
Mistigram: this greyscale #ANSIart image, adapted by AdeptApril (AdaptApril?) from a black and white photograph of a longago conflict, marks #VJDay, the closing of the final chapter of WWII with the end of the war in the Pacific. 78 years ago today formal documents of surrender were signed in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.
Mistigram: to whom it may concern -- I hope this finds you well. I have learned through an #ANSIart screen by AdeptApril -- this very one! -- that today is World #Letter Writing Day. Perhaps someday I should tell you about the time I devised a packet switching-through-post project as an expensive piece of mail art, but there simply isn't enough room here today to do so. Yours truly, old suchandsuch.
