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Bird Mail: Season 02, Issue 04
January 3, 2023
Hi friend, Happy new year and all that. We’re three days in and I’m not much for pomp and circumstance. I watched new year’s fireworks through my window,...
Bird Mail: Season 02, Issue 03
November 1, 2022
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Bird Mail: Season 02, Issue 02
June 21, 2022
Hello Friend, I know I said that this would be a more regular thing, but I’m still trying to figure out what more regular really means. Once a month? Every...
Bird Mail: Season 02, Issue 01 - TAKE 002
May 17, 2022
Hi friend, Apologies for the technical difficulties. This email should have all the right images in it. If you wrote in to let me know, I appreciate you....
Bird Mail: Season 02, Issue 01
May 17, 2022
Hi friend, Bird Mail is back. You probably have some questions: A. How did this get here? 2. What the heck is Bird Mail? III. What does “back” even mean?...
Bird Mail 042
February 23, 2021
Bird Mail 042 Hello Friends, Welcome back to your almost-every-Tuesday-barring-natural-disaster meander about the internet, Bird Mail. I don’t promise to...
Bird Mail 041
February 9, 2021
Bird Mail 041 Hi friends, Welcome back to Bird Mail, your Tuesday newsletter of links from around the internet that keeps changing forms because I am...
Bird Mail 040
February 2, 2021
Bird Mail 040 I have been thinking a lot about this excellent article…thing by Robin Rendle about the unusual position writers on the internet are in when...
Bird Mail 039
January 26, 2021
Bird Mail 039 Friends! January is almost done. This year is already moving at a rapid clip and though we are far from out of the woods yet, the days...
Bird Mail 038
January 12, 2021
Bird Mail 038 A few thoughts on 🏠 Welcome back to Bird Mail, I’m Bruce, your gatherer of internet ephemera. If you have forgotten why you signed up, Bird...
Bird Mail 037
January 5, 2021
Happy New Year Bird Mail Club! Once again, it has been a bit since my last message. There are reasons, but they don’t seem to matter as much as making sure...
Bird Mail 036
November 3, 2020
Hello friends of Bird Mail, It has been a while. If you have forgotten—and I wouldn't blame you—Bird Mail is a little bit of non-political delight in you...
Bird Mail 035
July 14, 2020
Hey, hi, hello. In case you have forgotten, Bird Mail is a only-on-Tuesday newsletter of internet ephemera, collected for you by me, Bruce Layman. Normally,...
Bird Mail 034
June 30, 2020
Hi, This is Bird Mail, your only-on-Tuesdays newsletter with delightful things pulled from around the internet just for you. I am Bruce, the gatherer of all...
Bird Mail 033
June 9, 2020
Hello from the scorching heat of a Texas summer. It seems that we have gone from what felt like the first real spring I've lived through in Texas to the...
Bird Mail 032
June 2, 2020
Birders, welcome to the thirty-second issue of Bird Mail, a newsletter about watching and writing, at least, for this week. I have been doing a lot of both...
Bird Mail: 031
May 26, 2020
Hello again, I know I missed last week, but I am back with a twist on the usual Bird mail. If you’ve forgotten, Bird Mail is your only-on-Tuesday newsletter...
Bird Mail 030
May 12, 2020
Bird Gang, it has been an unusual spring in Austin, in that we’ve actually had a spring. I hope you have been able get outside and enjoy the sun. Bird Mail...
Bird Mail 029
May 5, 2020
Collage by David Figueroa Bird Mail Club, hello. I wrote this for you mostly from coffee table and floor; mostly for a change of scenery from the desk neé...
Bird Mail 028
April 28, 2020
A dog, breakfast. April 2020. Hi, hello. This is Bird Mail, landing in your inbox again with a few links from around the internet. Bird Mail now arrives more...
Bird Mail 027
April 21, 2020
Birders, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to you—whenever you may be reading this, I hope that you are well. If you’ve forgotten, or maybe missed a...
Bird Mail 026
April 14, 2020
Austin, TX Pre-Quarantine. March, 2020 Hello my club of birders. We are continuing with this faster cadence as we remain sheltered in our homes. This, in...
Bird Mail 025
April 7, 2020
Brutal Distance Austin, TX March, 2020 Hello Birders, I’m writing you a full week earlier than normal, but that’s because Bird Mail is shifting to a weekly...
Bird Mail 024
March 31, 2020
Hill of Life Austin, TX March 2020 Hello friends, welcome to your twenty-fourth issue of Bird Mail. I have been thinking about changing the cadence of Bird...
Bird Mail 023
March 16, 2020
When things line up just right Executive Surf Club Corpus Christi, TX 2020 Hello birders, welcome to your corona-virus-news-free-issue of Bird Mail, a...
Bird Mail 022
March 3, 2020
Laguna Beach, CA February 2020 I’m Bruce Layman and this is Bird Mail, a collection of internet ephemera picked for you and delivered to your inbox every...
Bird Mail 021
February 18, 2020
Stuck - Laguna Beach, CA I’m Bruce Layman and this is Bird Mail, a collection of internet ephemera picked for you and delivered to your inbox every other...
Bird Mail 020
February 4, 2020
I’m Bruce Layman and this is Bird Mail, a collection of internet ephemera picked for you and delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. If you’re new here,...
Birb Mail 019
January 21, 2020
birdstrips 6826 likes Bird no. 824. Blooming just for me . I’m finding the sun shining in unexpected places lately. . What are you grateful for today? Jan....
Bird Mail 018
January 7, 2020
Looking for more ways to use these glorious Canadian stock photos in the New Year. For a long time I thought New Year’s Resolutions were a bit silly and...
Bird Mail 017
December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas (if that’s your sort of thing)! This is the last Bird Mail of the decade, and though I haven’t been writing it all that long, I wanted to...
Bird Mail: 016
December 10, 2019
The description for Charcoal is far too accurate In one of the newsletters I receive to help fill my collection with internet ephemera, and help me make Bird...
Bird Mail: 015
November 28, 2019
Alison Pollack's Fungi In lieu of NaNoWriMo, CJ Chilvers committed to writing about one subject, anxiety, every single day of November. I have always kept a...
Bird Mail: 014
November 12, 2019
0º C by Bruce Boyd If I’m at home hanging out or doing chores, chances are I have food Youtube on the Apple TV. Most of the time, I pick an episode—or...
Bird Mail: 013
October 30, 2019
The past two weeks were rather busy, so in lieu of a missive, here are a few things that caught my attention recently. Neauismea: Don’t ask me how to...
Bird Mail: 012
October 15, 2019
I wanted to give y’all a heads up, this is a more visual heavy issue. Several links are best viewed on a larger screen. A recommendation from Reader...
Bird Mail: 011
October 1, 2019
A brief announcement before we begin. Thank you for being a reader of Bird Mail. It means a lot that you would give me a small space in your inbox every so...
Bird Mail: 010
September 12, 2019
Holy 10th issue Batman! I'm trying something a little different with this week's Bird Mail. I finished it today which is two days late so I'm sending it...
Bird Mail: 009
August 27, 2019
Close Encarta I was a weird kid—who grew into a weird adult—and I spent a lot of my free time with my nose in a book. I soaked up factoids about an odd range...
Bird Mail: 008
August 13, 2019
Sometimes you hear a band and you wonder what genre of music they really fall into. Every Noise at Once is here to help. I spent more time than I’d like to...
Bird Mail: 007
July 30, 2019
I visited Boston for the first time earlier in July and though it was a short trip, the parts of the city I saw have me looking forward to my return. Cayla...
Bird Mail: 006
July 16, 2019
I sat behind a drum set for the first time in more than two years this weekend. I banged out the first part to a song I know well, but missed some notes,...
Bird Mail: 005 - Fixed Links!
July 2, 2019
An American icon…photographed by a Canadian Update: I'm sorry I broke all the links in the first attempt this morning. All of the links in this one work now,...
Bird Mail: 004
June 18, 2019
I was working on a design project a few weeks ago when a colleague asked me if I had any new favorite fonts. I’m pretty sure they were joking, but actually,...
Bird Mail: 003
June 4, 2019
I’m on day two of a month-long diet and I’m hoping by the end I feel increbidle. Last year I devoured the Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante and in her New...
Bird Mail: 002
May 21, 2019
”I decided to try to pull the birds from the sky” Stephen Gill’s photographs—they’re his in that he set up the scene, though he never once clicked the...
Bird Mail: 001
May 7, 2019
I’m sorry if this gets to you a little later than last week’s but I'm working from work today. I traveled to Cleveland for work last week and could not stop...
Bird Mail: 000
April 23, 2019
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a collector. Rocks, stamps, squished pennies, Field Notes, and fountain pens all nicely curated. But my biggest...