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Jett Morton is one of us.
Interesting article about the state of typewriting in Indonesia: "...in much of Indonesia, the humble typewriter still reigns."
Typewriter shops: and another one bites the dust.
Richard Scarry books are full of marvelous illustrations of creatures using typewriters, rotary telephones, pot-bellied stoves, and other fondly-remembered inventions of pre-virtual times. This fact aside, it is true that current editions of these books show ample signs of modern-day tampering.
Battle to the death: Pocket Moleskine vs. Levenger shirt pocket briefcase.
Looking to waste time on the web? (who isn't?) Have you waded around in the Ephemera pool in Flickr lately? Kinda interesting. And, hand-carved stamps are cool. Am I the only one around here who has a thing for stamps? Parcel Post has some purty retro paper stuff. Kind of on the girlier side.
Lastly, in honor of several good people I know who lost their jobs today, the dark humor of early Charles Schulz:
Banning the Big Black Box
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A 13 year-old who not only collects typewriters, but writes poetry about them. Now that's what I call hope for the future.
And, to tie it together a bit, there are of course lots of Peanuts strips featuring typewriters. I need to get to a scanner soon to image some of my favorites.
I have a thing with stamps to. I usually don't buy them, because I know that ink pad would dry out before I used them, but stamps are rad.
I love Peanuts. Charlie Brown is such an emo.
I'm sure you can find this on YouTube- have a look at the beginning credits of the TV series: "The Night Stalker," and of "The Prisoner." Both include the dramatic use of typewritten text- being typed- for a kind of dramatic *definitive* effect.
Another comic strip with plenty of typewriter presence is "Shoe," by Jeff McNelly. The characters are birds that are journalists- with messy desks!
I love how the old comics featured so many characters with crippling social problems. Of course, if you want to experience a real existential holocaust, check out Garfield without Garfield.
Speegle: I needed a gut-busting laugh today. You provided. Word.
I like GmG, but I really like The Nietzsche Family Circus
It's truly remarkable how G w/o G tells this whole other, disturbing story. Perhaps we need to erase the lead characters from more things in life?
Challenge: find and scan use of typewriter in the comics. Your turn.
"I love, love, love, your blog!" he gushed. "Every line and picture here evokes a memory."
Hello! I just found your blog because I was doing some research on a typewriter I just got - a script-type Royal Aristocrat. I'm in love with it, and I was so curious about the pretty font, and came across your post about your Hermes 3000. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you I found you, and will be reading with regularity now :)
Jak and Swansdepot, thanks for your comments! Hoping you will consider contributing to the typewriter journal (information is in a post a few weeks ago, let me know if you don't find it).
Funny, we we're just counting typewriters in Busytown last week.
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