{"id":22050,"date":"2016-04-13T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=22050"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:10:57","slug":"unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/13\/unhinged\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHINGED"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Irwin Weinberger<\/strong><\/span> and I sometimes drive home together from gigs. We’ve been doing this for so many years I know everything about him. He collected stamps. That came up on trip #401.<\/p>\n

We talked stamps for an hour, coming back from Akron. Slightly boring? No, very boring. I had some first-day covers and canceled stamps my dad got from work. The stamps were in manila envelopes marked \u201cFor Ted.” (My dad was Ted, not Toby, at work.) My father worked for a key-manufacturing company.<\/p>\n

\"unhingedMr. Polatsek, an old guy in my neighborhood, gave me stamps. The first stamp was Wisconsin Worker\u2019s Compensation\u00a0 (1961). He visited the local elementary school and passed out stamps to all the kids. He once took me to a stamp show at the Manger Hotel. It was old guys and me. I ran into Mr. Polatsek again years later — when he was actually old — and asked him about his collection. He said it had been stolen. He said,\u00a0 \u201cNow I only collect pictures of my grandchildren.”<\/p>\n

In college,<\/strong><\/span> I got stamps in the mail, forwarded by my mother. I told her to stop sending the stuff: W.C. Handy (1968), Leif Erikson (1968). It was embarrassing for a quasi-hippie to get stamps from his mom in the mail.<\/p>\n

Irwin, I’ll look at your stamps when I get really, really old. Meanwhile, readers can read about Irwin’s stamp collection at his new blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Irwin\"

Irwin<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nFootnote . . . From one of my plate-block books: \u201cWe have heard from collectors who reside in the tropics, where provision of stamp gum is almost impossible, that they have had very good results by dusting a little corn starch or unscented talcum powder (free from oils and perfumes ) on the gummed side of their stamps. We do not recommend this procedure, but pass it on to collectors for this own experimentation, should they reside in unusually humid communities.\u201d<\/small><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup plays a concert in Metro Detroit, at Cong. Beth Shalom, Oak Park, Mich., 4 p.m. Sun. (April 17). $10. More info here<\/a>. Motown and matzo.
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\"YCKB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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