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Here’s another one to file under the “confused identity or possible hipster affectation” folder: Noisy Typer for Mac OS X Sigh…

I insist on “Typewriteric” because it’s not “alcoholholic”. Of course, the instant I type this, “A Typewriter a Day” gets added to the blogroll. The typosphere is on the ball! Typed on “El Diablo” 1929 Corona 4, “Adwoa” 1955 Swissa Junior, and “The Iron Lady” (pictured) 1960 Smith-Corona Electric 5TE. Ruler is a nifty wooden […]

SPAM on your blog, don’t ya love it? I use WordPress, and Akismet is amazingly good at intercepting SPAM comments and filing them in a “look at these and push the EMPTY SPAM button when you’re done” file for me to casually glance over every few weeks and dump. It is very rare that Akismet […]

A nice surprise from Al’s Skyriter is this Theatre Guide from the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s 1966-1967 season. I was born in 1966, so this is especially fun for me to page through. I approve of the number of swank Tiki-themed businesses that advertised in the programme.

I admit to sometimes feeling like this will happen when I typewrite in cafes, but invariably the interaction is far less confrontational. I like how the Steampunk dude with his Royal can give it as well as he takes it.

Here’s another line chart that I’ve found to be more useful than the info on TW-DB for certain models of Smith-Corona machines. For Corona models 1-4 I generally refer to this chart, but for later models up to 1960, this NOMDA chart is very handy:

Cameron down at Living in the Woods asked today for some date of manufacture info about his Underwood Universal, and mentioned that he couldn’t find any info in the usual sources. I looked it up in my homemade line book, composed of printouts from scans I’ve made of various paper sources, and found a good […]

Ok, so I don’t know that Zooey Deschanel collects typewriters, but after showing up at the Writer’s Guild Awards sporting typewriter-themed fingernails,the typewriter geek community can be excused for seeking out evidence of another big star being a member of our weird little cult. Well, how’s this for further evidence? In Zooey’s current show “New […]

For part 2 of this series on “Perfect Albums”, I’ll be focusing on the work of one artist: Israeli DJ and video artist Ophir Kutiel, AKA Kutiman. Like any other DJ, Kutiman mixes sound samples to make music. What makes Kutiman different is where he gets his samples and what he does with them. Kutiman […]

One Stormy Night – DJ Munk

I admit I did very little specifically typewriter-ish to celebrate ITAM, but I did get 2 new typewriters this month, and fixed one of ’em up. I also typed, if not every day, then a sizeable minority of them. Every day is ITAD to me. (:

Don, from NathanGuitars.com, recently left some comments here. As I normally do, I clicked the link he left attached to his name, discovering yet another typecast blog I hadn’t seen before. Reading his post here caused me to think about the parallels in his introduction to typewriter hoarding and my own. I have the idea […]

And now for something else completely random: