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Vintage typewriters, ephemera, writing, and fascinating bits of office history. | |
on Sep 29, 2012
Tomorrow is October, and you know what that means. Just to get everyone in the mood, I whipped up a few countdown calendar wallpapers for all my National Novel Writing Month folk. Just click on the picture and download away. I'll be slinging typeba...
on Jul 28, 2012
Read about 229 Spring Street Since Strikethru threw down the gauntlet and asked us to dream up our own writing shacks,I thought I'd play along. This was easy, because I picked out this Dream Shack a few weeks ago while visiting Eureka Springs, AR a...
on Jul 26, 2012
U.S. National Archives Elvis got that haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. There's a nifty tourist shrine to the whole event at the Fort Chaffee Barbershop Museum. But that's not the point, really. The important thing is that, in a fit o...
And this is how to negotiate a poem: Visit the Poetry Depot page at the Miami Poetry Collective. Tallulah the Royal Futura...
on Jun 19, 2012 in: documentary
The Typewriter (In the 21st Century) Directed by: Christopher Lockett Produced by: Gary Nicholson Coming Fall 2012 Please tell me I'm not the last person to know about this. Look at all the familiar faces and names in this trailer. The typospher...
on Jun 18, 2012
Megan Chapman at Art Maven Having recently risen from a two year paper-grading-induced coma, I started poking around in my feedreader to see what I had missed. Quite a bit, it turns out. Megan Chapman, one of my favorite Arkansas artists, created...
on Feb 25, 2012
So I guess it's been a while. Because the reasons are neither dramatic nor interesting, let's put that aside for a bit and focus instead on my new gadget. It's not a typewriter. It's not even cutting edge, since I'm certainly the last reader on the...
