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But first, it's time for an update about the typewriter journal project. If you sent me a submission, check the spreadsheet to make sure I marked it as received. Now I'm reading through them to determine the order they should go in, etc. The release date of "sometime this summer" still holds for when the finished product will be available (I'll send one copy each to contributors). Once the layout is underway, I'll do some posting about it.
Moving right along... 
This evening, one of the shelves in a poorly-made bookcase of mine gave way, vomiting my notebook collection onto the rug. I stuffed them all back on the shelf, pausing first to arrange and take a picture of the embarrassingly large-ish collection (it seems to have grown, if this former picture is any indication). Consider this an official challenge to photograph and post about your collection as well.
For reasons I don't understand, some of my notebooks are at least half used, while others have only a sullied page or two, and still others are completely blank. When I look back over my skritchings, one thing is clear-- since college, I have rarely used a notebook for anything other than cryptic notes, rambles and weird little margin drawings.
I dearly love other people's weird little margin drawings, so I'll show you these sad scribbles in hopes that you'll reciprocate.
Octodog is of course, an homage to this. 
My phone.
I saw a van today that had "Clowns Unlimited" written on the side. I don't know about you, but I think there definitely should be a limit on clowns.
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Whatever you do, please, please, limit the clowns.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivander/97230904/sizes/o/
Word verification: moolers: what cows chew with
Have you seen this:
What's in My Journal, by William Stafford
Someone needs to be cataloguing (sp??) all of these word verification definitions. Can I get a volunteer? Oh and of course, it needs a name.
Nice poem, MWS. I have not seen it before.
Olivander, your link is not working...?
This may be pure crazy, but it might be kind of fun to add it to the journal, like as an appendix?
Stupid link.
Click here.
How do I get a copy once it's published?
If I take a photo of my current notebook stash, someone will have me committed. Mostly this is due to my composition book obsession. I suppose I could just use one representation of each type of notebook...but even that would be a little scary. Oops.
Word verif: forsh. If Sean Connery had played Obi-Wan Kenobi, he would have said, "May the forsh be with you." In a most dashing way, of course.
I love the robot and the octodog! I want a t-shirt.
That last notebook you have posted is the one that I got for you but keep forgetting to give you - so it appears you already have one. I loved the tagline: "Most advanced quality gives best writing features" - Since I got it at a Japanese store, I am guessing that is a translation into English.
Re. the NY Post NYPD typewriter story: GOSH YOU ARE FAST, Strikethru! Before I'd even clipped it from the paper, you had it researched and reported!! Nice job. I don't know...I kind of liked the idea that the NYPD is an equal opportunity technology user. By the way, did anyone ID the typewriter in the Barney Miller photo?
Clowns should be banned! Unlike typewriters, they are a relic that Must disappear!
I did a post like this a few months back. I didn't show any of my doodles, but I did show my insane amount of notebooks.
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