Three years ago Frank Warren started a community art project for those who had secrets to tell. He asked people to send their secret on a postcard. To his amazement, he received thousands of responses–some beautiful, some sorrowful, and some inspiring. He began to post the cards online each Sunday, and published his first book–Post Secret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives in November of 2005.
Since that time, he has received over 150,000 postcards from anonymous people around the world and he has published three more books. The website has received numerous awards, and he has been recognized by the National Mental Health Association for raising funds and awareness about suicide.
The postcards are moving, and you might even find something that you can relate to in them.. check out this website, and if you are so compelled, send him your own secret!
Here in Minneapolis every first Saturday of October all the zombies come out of their cracks, suit up, and come together for the annual zombie pub crawl. The event commences in Gold Medal Park at 3PM and from there craziness ensues! This year there were an estimated 600-700 zombies, but only 2 arrests! Among the crowd were 2 Abe Lincolns, a couple of ninja zombies, a girl who died on a Disney ride, 2 postal workers, 1 Borat, and 1 drowned man (unfortunately, he was not a victim of the river killer.. or at least he “couldn’t remember what the killer looked like..” whatever that means).
As if that is not enough to make you fall immediately in love with this event, there is a Pirate Pub crawl (much smaller.. and ahem lamer..) that takes place on the same day every year in the same general area. Imagine.. a neighborhood inundated with pirates and zombies. Heaven.
In the end, my roommates and I ended up making the front page of the Pioneer Press as we has our photo shot with a lucky wedding party that had decided to show up.
Three years ago Frank Warren started a community art project for those who had secrets to tell. He asked people to send their secret on a postcard. To his amazement, he received thousands of responses–some beautiful, some sorrowful, and some inspiring. He began to post the cards online each Sunday, and published his first book–Post Secret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives in November of 2005.
