Weapon of Choice: “Doris Day” 1966 Olympia SM9 #3098142 Currently in the earholes:
The Magnificent Return of Typewriter Club Live
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Mail Call: A new Correspondent and something from the National Postal Museum
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The Typewriters of James Bond 007: Dr. No
It’s been high time for a rewatch of the James Bond film series, and since I’ve been spending my typewriter money on DVD’s at the thrift store these days, my selection of the nice MGM digital restorations with director’s commentary has grown. I’ve watched these movies so often on VHS or on broadcast or cable […]
Adjustment Points on a Triumph Perfekt Typewriter
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Microcassette Release and Other Future Episodes
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Triumph Perfekt #3061978 Currently in the earholes: Versus: The ULTIMATE in SOLAR CAGE FIGHTS!
Mail Call: Another Three-Fer! :D
Episode #13: “Timelapses One” passes the “Cat TV” test.. (: Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: The 3-Way Begins and Canada Represent!
The 3-Way Cassette Letter in the Marantz PMD201 Ahh good, Joe only wrapped the cassette in bubble wrap – I won’t feel guilty transferring it to a custom-fit mission box… Currently in the earholes:
MunkTone Cassette and MusicBrains Picard Make It So!
Weapon of Choice: “Cadwallader” 1963 Olympia SM7 #2335640 Currently in the earholes:
Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
The Navidrome also clued me in that I somehow had yet *another* “101 Strings” album; “East of Suez“, which I liked a lot too, but that one is decidedly all orchestral. According to the wikiwiki, “101 Strings” is more of a brand rather than a band, a brand that was sold to a number of […]
Mail Call: Mail from an Ocean Cruiser
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Mail Call: Tomorrow’s News Today!
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Mail Call: Dragons & Embroidery
MyOldTypewriter’s Friendly Kenmore Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: A Package Full of Packages, and Much More!
The Remington Portable that Joe used for typing the actual letter. See video about him replacing the feed rollers here: JoeCrafted Cards with Envelopes! A nice blank tape plus Joe’s audio letter recorded on his new Marantz PMD430. I’m glad he forced it to mono, because now I won’t feel so bad listening to it […]
Mail Call & Going Through SM3 Adjustments with Hot Rod Typewriter
Weapon of Choice: “Ghost Chocolate” 1957 Olympia SM3 #998587 The HotRod Typewriter’s Olympia SM Adjustment Tutorial Videos! Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 3.5: Part 4: Part 4.5: Part 5:
Mail Call & Thriftin’ Report
I thought this might be some sort of ciphertext, but was too lazy to think about it too much. :D Panasonic RR-830 Transcription Cassette Recorder! I once had the microcassette version of this, with the same foot controller, but I gave it to Goodwill a year or two before microcassettes became cool in the Typosphere. […]
Mail Call: The Bulgarian Connection
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Silver Strands of Mercury
…and so I sat in the darkness, listening to the world outside the walls… Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Hot Mailbox on a Frosty Evening
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Mail Call: Two More Letters and Blog Post Binders for 2023
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Mail Call: One Letter Out and Two Letters In
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Mail Call: April Showers Bring Western Type-Ins
Susan’s Italic Congress Everest K3 Currently in the earholes:
New Colors and The Fall (not at all what you’re thinking, I promise)
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Groma Kolibri N #N43143 Currently in the eyeholes: It’s sort of a “Thousand and One Arabian Nights” kind of story in a way, where a desperate, suicidal paralyzed stunt man befriends an 8-year old immigrant fruit picker in the hospital which they are recuperating from falls in around the 1920’s. The […]
Mail Call: Sweet Nectar of INSPIRATION
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Mail Call: Mailbox be HONGRY! :D
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Straight to The Moon, Alice!
VIPER will be NASA’s first robotic Moon rover. It will embark on a mission to the lunar South Pole region to trek into permanently shadowed areas and unravel the mysteries of the Moon’s water. VIPER will be the first rover to measure the location and concentration of water ice and other resources. These resources could […]
The Ennui That Comes When You Have Made a Typewriter Perfect
So what about those machines that are not perfect like my JP-1’s? Joe has an opinion on that today :D Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Here’s all that Christmas mail!
Lucas’ Polaroid: A naked Kolibri, a mini-Nagra, a Hasselblad and a Bonsai tree: Currently in the eyeholes: John Carpenter‘s “In the Mouth of Madness” Mini-Review: part of the Apocalypse Trilogy that also includes “Prince of Darkness” and “The Thing“. I really dig PoD because it’s a thought-provoking Sci-Fi Horror Comedy, sort of, and “The Thing” […]
Mail Call: Feel Good Skin Club edition!
At first I thought “WMS & CO” was the stationery shop where the set came from, and marveled that the set came in a hand-made box. I dug a bit and found out that no, the box is just a generic storage box, albeit a $35 hand-made generic storage box that happens to fit the […]
Christmas Day Eve
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Triumph Perfekt #3061978 In the earholes on Christmas Day Eve:
Mail Call: Season’s Greetings & Vintage Videogames on Period-Correct Hardware
New refurbished drives for the Beige Box AMD K6-III Always a good idea to open up these old drives and clean & regrease. 91% Isopropyl to clean the drive heads & motor screw shaft, White Lithium Grease for the screw and other friction-bearing bits. All of this just to play the classic 1997 Voxel-rendered “Blade […]
Mail Call: ETCetera Magazine and Christmas Greetings!
Get yours now! Currently in the earholes;
24x Max 2 The MAX! 1997 CD-ROM Drive refurb!
Well, guess I voided *that* warranty! :D This one looks about the right size – a tiny bit smaller, but that’s prolly exactly right, accounting for the stretched condition of the old belt. OK, let’s power it up and make sure it works! Currently in the earholes:
UJTU: Dance, Typebars, Dance!
Weapon of Choice: 1946 Royal Quiet De Luxe #A-1218244 Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Guth-hounds Nippin’ at me Heels!
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