To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

Carl The Barber, by The Sun City Girls. Yes, it’s about the guy that cut my hair. Another link on the band’s own website. Of the one hundred copies on blue vinyl pressed, I have one. I have no idea what it’s worth.

I’m cataloging all of my machines. This is step one of wrapping up my second phase of typewriter *collecting* and starting the path to fully appreciating the best specimens of the herd – the threaded stock, if you will. I’ve cataloged typing samples, a short blurb and serial numbers for everything except the 60’s SCM’s […]

PS: this is my 150th post, and whoever comments next will be my 500th non-spam commenter!

The Swissa on Adwoa’s site

Got to talking with Bill Wahl down at MTE and he mentioned seeing an item in one of his old trade newsletters that indicated that the Olympia SM2 could be ordered with Segment shift (basket-shift) instead of the common Carriage shift. We both were dubious, considering the rather huge mechanical difference between the two shift […]

Good god, jewelry is bad enough – now someone’s chopping typewriter keys to make computer mice?

Hey, you can now get typewriter stamps for your typewritten letters! The USPS is offering the Pioneers of American Industrial Design “forever” stamps honoring 12 of this country’s most innovative designers, including Eliot Noyes, who designed the IBM Selectric. Get yours today and impress your fellow typospherians (:

Ted & Tori travel to the Brinton Desert Botanical Garden (like a mile away) to celebrate World Typewriter Day 2011 by typing on their matched 1964 Hermes 3000’s in the 108 degree heat. Our Typewriter day video. Hopefully watching two people type is less boring than watching one person type. :D We decided to celebrate […]