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August 1, 2007

Best Place to Seal a Letter with a REAL Kiss

Friend of MLP, Meg Scheminske passes along word of a pen-pal finding, letter-crafting bonanza at Portland's Independent Publishing Resource Center.

From this week's Willamette Weekly,

Best Place to Seal a Letter with a REAL Kiss: If seeing someone lick the back of a postage stamp turns you on, there's no better place in town than The Independent Publishing Resource Center , or IPRC (917 SW Oak St. #218, 827-0249) to meet the pen pal of your dreams. Call them traditionalists, Luddites or just plain romantics: From 6 to 9 pm in the little space above Reading Frenzy, every first, second and fourth Thursday of the month, letter-writing junkies convene to craft hand-written quixotic missives to friends, strangers and lovers near and far. Leave your iPhone and T9 vocab at the door—this is where pen, paper, markers, crayons and imagination come out to play. Add this to IPRC's already hefty collection of obscure printing devices like the Japanese Gocco (an old-fashioned letterpress) and its pumped-up Apple G5s, featuring enough Adobe to build a sun-dried house in New Mexico, and you've got all the tools to put to paper just about anything your free-thinking cranium can conjure up.

The IPRC sounds to us like the perfect place to craft your Modern Letter Project letters and meet some fellow letter-writing fans while you're at it.