Joe’s Video Report! :D A new podcast launched today, where the pod interviews typewriter repair pros. First episode’s on Phoenix’s own Duane Jensen, worth a listen!
Month: September 2024
The Strange Case of the Sears Branded Royals
Having found a US-Made Royal Sabre-style “Sears Portable” this past week, I realized that TWDB now has a few each of the two different Sears machines that were specially manufactured for Sears by the Royal Springfield plant in the US. In examining them, I came to the realization that I had also had the oldest […]
Mail Call: A Missed Postcard
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Tape Pals 3-Way #2 Round 4 Cassette Arrives!
The Tape Pals cassette has arrived! That’s a good hour and a half of listening and letter-reading. Time to SAVOR! (: Oops!, the theme of this round is actually “Interesting Stories“, as per Joe’s side of the tape. Maxell XLII High-Bias 90 #E061A6B4 USA-Made, May 06, 2001 Still recording fine with no dropouts or fade […]
Mail Call: Lord Guildford Deigns to Write
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The Bomb in Your Pocket
Oh hey – the 90’s called… and now you’re dead! Jeebus Crispy, the world is a weird place. Over the weekend another assassination attempt on a current presidential candidate, and again nobody seems to be especially surprised or concerned – at least not as much as they care about a fabricated story about people eating […]
Currently in the Eyeholes: Drum Struck
In the 1990’s there was a place you might remember called a “Video Rental Store” where you’d go every Friday after work and browse the racks of “videotapes” so you could select a few to rent over the weekend. On these videotapes were movies, and if you frequented just the right sort of video rental […]
Mail Call: Aliens in my Mail!
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Special Tape Pals Edition: Letterpress 1997 & Sounds of Night 2001
Even more Special Episodes hot off the griddle!
Mail Call: Real Deal Mail Freshly Typed & Prepping for a Cassavetes Run
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Recording Phonecalls
Mail Call: Shag and the First Catch of the 2024 Typewriter Hunting Season
WoC: 1966 Sears Portable #SS 6559402
Currently in the Eyeholes: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
So what do you get when you hire a bunch of the ugliest actors you can find, then give them lines to memorize that depress them so much that they commit mass suicide – but, surprise! The director knows a witch doctor, so they re-animate the actors as zombies, cover them in chalky, white makeup […]
Mail Call: A Threefer Weekend! :D
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