Today at the World Stamp Show I got to hear Lawrence Block speak for about 60 minutes on his Keller books. The Keller character is the kind of likeable hitman who collects stamps. The room was mostly full. He had a merch table in back!
If anyone is in NYC this week the World Stamp Show is free at the Javitts through Saturday. I'm not a stamp collector now, I was when I was a kid but I do collect old postcards - but there is a football field of exhibits. I'm going back yet again later this week to walk through them. the show only happens each 10 years. You really don't have to spend a lot if you don't want. There are like 40 world post offices there with new stamps and most have some kind of Star Trek collectible - I bought a Canadian Star Trek holographic card where Kirk and Spock appear and vanish as they jump through the portal of time and also the transporter as you wiggle the card. Lots of cool stuff geared to kids. Stuff like this doesn't happen much anymore, tis a rare experience.
See, I though art people were crazy, but collectible people are way more nuts than creative people. The stuff that people collect is crazy. Today I went to a presentation that described the holdings of the Postmark Museum in OH they want an example of each post mark ever made by a specific post office in the US. Some early postmarks are very cool. The coolest thing I saw so far which just knocks me out is
http://www.columbianstamp.com/?portf...sed-on-wrapper