Category: From the Desk of Reverend Munk
Typecasts from the desk of the Right Reverend Theodore Munk
The Resurrection of Lazarus, Part One…
Yet another Ebay tale of heartbreak…
I should have known better. I have a “No Ebay” rule for a reason – because Ebay sellers rarely pay any attention at all to my packing instructions and the shipping companies seem to have a personal grudge against typewriters. I was so excited to find this Signature 511D on Ebay that I just went […]
An evening of beer reviews with “The Unsophisticated Palate”
Typewriter Heaven’s Beer Reviews
GodzillaJesus Checks Out The New Hottie On Floor 23
And before I leave the topic, here’s one other bit of Jesusy household decoration that I really do wish I could find in a thrift store…
Spring Typewriter Hunting Season – bagged #3! Plus more scans & photos from 4th Phoenix Type-In
The chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one, they said…
My Signature 511D, currently in transit… Boozerbear-War_Of_The_Worlds.2007-07-21.mp3 (many parts NSFW!) Links mentioned in this post: Robert Messenger’s Omnibus post on Brother Davis Brothers’ Page on Brother @ MoLG Davis Brothers’ Best Portables to use page @ MoLG Clickthing’s posts on his Signature 513 Jeff Wayne’s Musical Verison of “The War of the Worlds”
1968 Signature 440T confirmed via Monkey Ward’s catalog, plus, what the heck is Dial-A-Type?
Spring Typewriter Season Begins, and 4th Phoenix Type-In Report the Third…
I’ve been a bit tardy in keeping up with the posts reporting the 4th Phoenix Type-in, but you’ll have to excuse me because it’s officially Spring Typewriter Hunting Season! Thousands of people across the country are spring cleaning, and donating unwanted stuff to thrift stores every day this month – and that means fresh, new […]
Jesus Loves Me, This I Know, For The T-Bone Tells Me So…
Return Of The Typewriter Bone: 1968 Monkey Wards Signature 440T (Brother)
And, just for Adwoa, some more sewing machine sightings. She remarked about the table the last one was mounted in, and it’s worth noting that around these parts, probably 70% of the sewing machines I see are mounted in nice tables, usually very swank Danish-style tables…
Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up Type-In 4: Second Report
Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up Type-In 4: First Report
Typewriter haters at Gizmodo hate on Typewriter Insurgent at Starbucks
Philistines, hating on someone who’s enjoying a nice pleasant afternoon typing at Starbucks. Hope they get lots of computer viruses delivered to them by the People’s Revolutionary Army. :P I suppose they’d be happier if he succumbed to the omnipresent propaganda telling him to buy a $200 Chromebook that will last him a couple years […]
UJTU: New feature @ typewriterdatabase.com
IBM Model C Standard Typewriter Users Guide (1972)
From the archives of Bill Wahl:
Something for everyone: My 333rd Post!
This post is number 333 for this blog, on my third year, so I seem to be averaging 111 posts a year (that’s for Al, who gets unduly excited about the number 11). Not too bad, and far better than I expected to be able to do. I could do more, though. Many things I […]
Royal HH Typewriter User’s Manual, 1952
Ya gotta love free vintage paper & ribbons…
Fourth Phoenix Type-In Banner!
Mentat Typists?
(Time to confuse Teeritz with another obscure Sci-Fi reference…) I found this odd bit of traffic in this morning’s report from the Typerati Subspace Signals Section:
ITAM Appreciation: “Joanie” 1964 Hermes 3000
It won’t matter what these fields are called in your application. Here is a list, in order, of what fields should be exported. “Required” fields, if left blank, will result in that record not being imported: 1) Manufacturer/Marque [required](brand) Note: This field will be matched against typewriterdatabase.com’s table of manufacturers. if an exact non-case sensitive […]
ITAM Appreciation Post: “Easy” 1964 Hermes 3000
Cyberstalking previous owners of your typewriter, and the News From Lake Woebegone
Typewriter Hunters: New Feature Added to TypewriterDatabase.com
type-in.org launched!
I’ve set up a list of past and future type-ins at type-in.org, let me know if I’ve missed any from the past or that are coming up. If you are planning a Type-In, please be sure to let me know so I can list it on the Type-In Page.
Tilting for Visibility: Travel Typewriters and TRS-80 Model 100’s
Empire Aristocrat Tripod Field Typewriter – Part 2
Tripod-Mounted Empire Aristocrat Field Typewriter
Type-Ins not just for Typospherians anymore!
This article in the Beaver County PA Times announces a Type-In at Cafe Kolache on Feb 23rd, and as far as I can tell, the promoter, a Beaver County author and typewriter collector Valentine J. Brkich, is not a Typospherian. (although he should be) This could be the first “Type-In” held by a non-Typospherian, and […]
Happy Valentine’s Day, Typosphere!
This is the last 7 pictures on my phone:
Predictably, an Olivetti Valentine article in a design magazine On Valentine’s Day
The Scandalous Valentine Ettore Sottsass Wanted to Give You in All Capital Letters Surprisingly well-informed, but again neglects to mention Sottass’s lack of involvement with the final design.
Royal Empress Typewriter Owner’s Manual, 1961
On a personal note, I love this manual because it’s a really fine example of old-school spot color design and printing, which was far cheaper to do back in 1961 than full-color process printing. Nowadays it’s far cheaper to do 4-color than this sort of exacting color knockouts and fill halftones, and you just never […]
Thousands of typewriters stored at the bottom of the ocean?
This article in the Sioux City Journal about a retiring typewriter repairman has an interesting line in it: The brothers also cleaned and bagged typewriters for the Army and Navy and then transported them to Chicago. The typewriters were sealed up and put in an unusual place. “I asked them, what they do with them […]
IBM Executive Typewriter Operator’s Manual – 1950’s
This is for Dwayne at VTO, who just picked up a sweet Executive, and would probably like to know how to work it. From the archives of Bill Wahl.