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― C J (C J), Sunday, 6 March 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Some of these are incredibly sad.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

It's a great site, and affirms that all of us are a bit insane.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

It's great and beautiful. And I was rather heartened that not *all* of the cards on show are by people who can draw really really well.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Some of them are incredibly sad, yes, and then there's "I used to pee in snowballs before throwing them at friends." I wish I'd thought of that as a kid.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had somewhere to splurge all my deepest secrets - the ones I haven't even posted here, yet. The ones I didn't even want to tell my therapist, etc.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that top one about everyone thinking they are dead after 9/11... yikes.

Wonderful site. So touching.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I wonder if that's true. Someone decided to abandon their old life completely and start again? That's amazing, strange, and unsettling.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey, love the new handle Kenan!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

haha thank you.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

There's a lot of cliches going on there.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that top one about everyone thinking they are dead after 9/11... yikes.

This was a storyline in Peter Milligan's Human Target (one of the first couple issues I think).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

this is like some macabre Chuck Palahniuk project, illustrations by Dave McKean.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

I really like this idea - I wish I'd thought of it.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's weirdly compelling and some of it ("I talked someone into suicide') is really dark. I loved the one about the marriage saved by doing it in the Artomatic annex. It's kinda bragging but in a cute way.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

HEY IF YOU MAKE IT LOOK FUCKED UP AND/OR LIKE A MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT, EVEN THE STUPIDEST NON-SECRET "SECRET" BECOMES MEANINGFUL AND DEEP

high school art magazine!

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Tombot otm

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

and yeah some of it IS perhaps incredibly sad and/or possibly moving but A) I cannot shake the idea that 85% of these are made up by really atrocious, manipulative people B) that feeling is exacerbated by all the time some of these people have apparently spent dolling up their postcards, wtf C) any secrets that are actually real and serious and took a lot to put down on a postcard and send in lose that meaning and are essentially ruined by association, I mean which is which?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 March 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Hate to be cynical, But I agree with Tombot. The confession / art / self-mythology link is too strong in a lot of them.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Where does the site claim to be deep or meaningful, and what fucked up teenage bullshit did you swallow that makes you think the opposite would be a bad thing?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

This reminds me of a This American Life piece about an "apology line"...a phone number you could call to record an anonymous apology about anything. I don't remember the details, who set it up or whatever, but I bet the show's archived on their site somewhere.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

a quick google reveals: http://www.apologyproject.com/

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I agree w/Tep. The atrocious/manipulative aspect is just as interesting as any 'real' secrets would be. I love the bragging one about sexing in the annex.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

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