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 […]
Category: From the Desk of Reverend Munk
Typecasts from the desk of the Right Reverend Theodore Munk
Music: The Perfect Albums, Part 1
One Stormy Night – DJ Munk
Adventures in cleaning typewriter crinkle paint
I had to go out to way south Queen Creek this weekend, and on the way back, I hit a few Goodwills that were on the trail. I found one manual machine, a beat-up Royal 440, and stacks of wedges and other electrics. Left ’em all behind…
Not entirely an ITAM post…
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. (:
A Tombstone Royal Day
Sadly, that last line of faint text is all that would come out of the QDL when it arrived…
The Legion Grows…
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 […]
Happiness is a new ribbon…
The End Of The Universe
The Press <3 Us!
And now for something else completely random:
A month’s worth of randomness…
Things are good (:
On the quality of Typewriter Ribbons
A Day of Inky Fingers and fun finds!
The Hour of Twilight, Dragon Soul and even some typewriter-related stuff…
and now, some typewriter-related posting. First an Experiment In Terror: and then, an amusing thing I got in the mail. This insurance company used an Elite typewriter font to address this letter that showed up in my mailbox. I’m curious if they thought that it adds a personal touch to try and fool me into […]
What is PICA anyway?
So, if “Pica” is a size, or more specifically any 10 CPI font face on a typewriter, then what is the typestyle that most of us know as “Pica”? Is it Courier, or does it have a name at all, or is it just designated as numbers by different factories?
I am Thankful…
Kipling Fixed (with video), plus Swissa Returns!
Inspecting “Kipling” the Noisy Noiseless
UPDATE! I’ve inspected the underside of the machine and found a brittle leather pad (or at least bits of it) which appear to be the mechanism for stopping the keys at the proper distance from the platen: As to where I’m going to find a replacement for this, I dunno. I suppose I could make […]
Relax, Dear Hearts – The Iron Lady Shall Live!
Maybe I will keep it… for awhile at least…
I’ve been typing quite a lot on this ’61 Smith Corona Electric today, it’s quite fun to play with. Although I speculate below on all the parts I want to strip off of it, chances are I’ll keep it intact as long as it amuses me. Like the Dread Pirate Roberts says: “Good night, Westley. […]
1961 Smith-Corona Electric with History!
Thank-U-Gram
Thanks – We’re looking forward to your reply!
Eleventy-Eleventy-Eleven (contains no actual elevens)
Underwoods, Monkey Wards and Nero Wolfe
Why didn’t you shoot him in the leg?
It does say something about the intelligence and moral integrity of the Typosphere that this question never came from you guys. Bravissimo! (:
Typewriter Hunting in the Aftermath of a Surreal Morning
Tonight was *interesting*…
I don’t expect you to talk, Mr. Bond, I expect you to listen to the radio!
*Another* Typewriter Repair shop in AZ?
I dunno why I keep looking at craigslist, when the majority of the ads are like THIS, but I occasionally check it and today I noticed THIS AD, offering typewriter repair and cleaning. It’s in the Phoenix area, so kinda out of my way when I have MTE just around the corner, and I have […]
I totally had this idea about a decade ago…
Sadly, when forced to move by the loss of the Ranch, I had to drastically slim down my old worldly goods, which included my 10-year collection of postage paid envelopes from every junk mail I received over that timespan. Yup, all in the recycling bin along with a couple decades of my own saved mail. […]
Typewriter Bone is Never Wrong – But Sometimes Thrift Stores Get Greedy
Typecast from “Tex”, 1957 Underwood Golden Touch Deluxe
Evangelism and The Culled Herd…
Retro Laptops Reviewed for Nano Suitability
National Novel Writing Month is fast approaching, and it seemed relevant to take a quick look at some of the non-typewriter options that a Nano participant might have a mind to use when banging out that magic 50K. On obtaining a slightly beat-up Apple eMate 300 from Ryan this past week, I realized that I […]
A wedding in the woods
Been busy as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest these past couple of weeks, and this weekend I was in the woods attending a wedding of a couple dear friends of mine (this time I was a groomsman rather than the officiant, much easier that way). Here’s a pic of my Tower in the […]