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Just wanna tease ya with some pics of a few of the machines that made it to the 2nd Phoenix Type-In, organized beautifully by Ryan at Magic Margin at the historic Monti’s La Casa Vieja in Tempe, Arizona. More detailed typewriter and people pics are coming as soon as I write my report. (: P.S. […]

Mesa Second Fridays Art Walk

A new typecaster has joined our ranks, and I’ve added a link to his blog in my blogroll. Unfortunately, his blog is in German (or Swiss or Swiss-German, I can’t tell the difference), so we English-only types might happen to miss out on this awesome video he posted. In fact, it’s so awesome that I […]

Heh, it’s been awhile since I’ve been broadcast anywhere, so it was a pleasant surprise to find out that my buddy Wayne Butane did a segment for Evolution Control Committee‘s “The Sound of Plaid” and managed to shoehorn in some of my stuff for his broadcast. You can hear it in about an hour and […]

The Feds have finally won the case that determined whether or not they could sell off Ted Kaczynski’s stuff, and now it’s all up at auction, including his rather nice black enameled 1930’s Corona Flat-top typewriter. Act now! The auction runs from May 18 to June 2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/sets/72157626579208135/

I have finally gotten the seller of the Tandy 200 and Model 100 I aquired some weeks ago to actually ship them. Poor fellow suffers from some sort of public spaces anxiety and was leaving me notes about his heroic attempts to forge the single block between his home and the nearest post office. His […]

Confession time: I’ve lusted after an Alphasmart Dana pretty much since they came out, but could never really justify dropping a couple hundred bucks on one, and the last time I checked the ‘Bay for them, even the used ones ran about $150 (about a year or so ago). So imagine my surprise and delight […]

Based on the serial numbers and dates I found on Machines of Loving Grace, and the serial number and date supplied by Manual Entry in reply to my last post, I’m going to estimate that my SCM Sterling hybrid Galaxie/Super-5 dates to 1964. I still wish I had good serial number data for SCM machines […]

PS: This is post #98, I really have been a busy little beaver!

The Craigslist ad for a $15 Lettera 22 Anyone in the Phoenix area want a 1940’s Royal KMM (or HH, i can’t tell the difference) for $38?

I have been unable to comment on any of the typosphere blogs that use Blogger since sometime last night, yet I see other people posting comments fine. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Apparently they’ve been doing this for 21 years now. Video shows them destroying ugly plastic wedges, but what were they throwing off roofs in the first annual typewriter toss in the 90’s? Also, to give you an idea of how ignorant the media actually is, listen to the last line in the video: “uh, someone […]

I was over at MTE today to drop off some flyers for the 2nd Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up, and as happens everytime I drop by, I got to chatting with Bill and this time he rummaged through his file cabinet and came up with an old Olympia postcard, which he gave to me – probably because […]

A deftly-anti-ocr’d rant by Fossils Without Fear Another rant couched in poetry and biology by Snohomish Writer A Softer World The Boston Typewriter Orchestra La Vie Graphite “A Day of Moments” by Joe Van Cleave