Well, it’s been about 5 or 6 months since I started using Facebook for serious, and I can report that it does have a great deal of value in terms of keeping in touch with a community and collaborating to find and promote things. Does it replace blogging? Not a chance- it’s way too ephemeral, […]
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Thriftin’ Report: Weird Ko-Inkydinks
So yesterday I did a round of thrifting, and came up dry. So I went to the Press Room to work on an annoying sticky typebar on an SM-8, only to get a Typosphere Bat-Signal from Key Snap about a Lettera 25 he had just found at Deseret. I had been there only a couple […]
Mason Whitlock, most experienced typewriter man alive, hospitalized with Kidney issues
We should send him “Get Well Soon” cards – fire up your typewriters! http://nhregister.com/articles/2013/06/20/opinion/doc51c38b55ae731224109785.txt
Golden Suitcases, Tingling Bones and I’ve got it real bad, don’t I?
I’d just visited the closest Goodwill a couple of days ago and something bugged me about a thing I saw there, so I had to go back. You see, I’d seen a large gold-colored metal suitcase locked up in the glass “good stuff” case and asked the clerk what it was. “Some kinda band instrument” […]
Force of Habit
Typewriter lovers are possibly the only people who are in danger of doing this:
Unite For The Glorious Revolution! (a new Propaganda Poster)
Well, I just had to jump on the bandwagon, didn’t I? :D
Adventures with Ollie 21
I’ve got the Olivetti 21 cleaned up and ready to trade/sell, and yesterday I dropped by Mesa Typewriter Exchange to see if Bill would swap me the old Hermes Ambassador that he has collecting dust on his back shelf for it. No dice on that one – as soon as we pulled the Hermes off […]
The Typewriters of Naked Lunch
There’s been some uncertainty about what typewriters were used in the movie “Naked Lunch” by David Cronenberg. I’ve remembered them as a Smith-Corona Super-5 body from the 50’s (Bill Lee’s Clark Nova), a 60’s Olivetti Lettera 22 (Tom Frost’s Martinelli) and an Oliver (Tom Frost’s Mujahideen arabic machine). Recently I got into a conversation over […]