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The Regia Mixta typewriter
OK, two issues: ETCetera no. 86 and no. 88.Here's the extra shift assist spring I added:Here's how the carriage lock works:The Regia's bell makes a pleasing, lingering sound.A rare name variant of the...
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Typewriters of the Times: Brian Sonia-Wallace and William Stevenson
Today's New York Times Book Review section is more typewriterly than usual.The theme seems to have been inspired by this strong review of Brian Sonia-Wallace's The Poetry of Strangers by Michael...
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Topsy Turvy Typewriter Book
There's a recurring problem with copies of my book . . . . . . . . . .
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A Deco discovery
The architects of the Western Hills Pumping Station were Joseph G. and Bernard Steinkamp. The same firm turns out to have designed several other Cincinnati buildings I love, such as the Waldo...
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Liner notes for the new Boston Typewriter Orchestra album
I was honored to be asked to write the liner notes for "Workstation to Workstation," the new album from the Boston Typewriter Orchestra.
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10 years of this blog
Exactly ten years ago, I posted typecast #1:This typewriter is no longer with me, but the blog is. This will be my 1,112th post, and my 512th typecast. I've saved the typecasts in these little...
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Book review: Typerotica, by Lee Siegel
See Paul Robert's Sexy Legs and Typewriters for much more historic material along these lines.(Of course I am not condoning the behavior represented in this postcard in any way.)Typerotica website
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Guest typecast by Martin Heidegger
"What is truest is if seeming and nonbeing is taken into truth and being."—From the conclusion of Herbert Marcuse's typed transcript ofMartin Heidegger's 1930-31 seminar onPlato's Parmenides
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On people and things
Illustrations by Nancy Gorrell for Bryan Kravitz's Hints for a Happy Typewriter
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Tuxedo typer
Here are some views of the latest machine that I've rescued from the basement, cleaned up, and put back into rotation. This model has been referred to as the tuxedo, the cop car, or the penguin. (OK, I...
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Backspaces: Typewritten Tales of Time Travel has been published
The third volume in Loose Dog Press's Cold Hard Type series, Backspaces, has been published! This volume features stories, poems, art, and photography on the theme of traveling back to the heyday of...
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Stopping 9/11 ...
... is the premise of my contribution to Backspaces.I know I'm not the only one who has had the fantasy of averting this gruesome and irreversible event that plunged us into this frightening century....
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Bennettcast
Rem-Blick bikecast110 years ago, the Bennett and its predecessor, the Junior (which used ink rollers instead of a ribbon), sold in pretty good quantities. (Over 11,000 Juniors and 24,000 Bennetts were...
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Michal Ajvaz on typewriters
Yes, I recently acquired a Fraktur typewriter. More about it soon.
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Figuring out Fraktur
Orga typewriters 1(We're still waiting for part 2, Will.)"The Ideal Proportions for Fraktur," by Bert KerschbaumerHere is the typecast. This text illustrates the long s in older English printing, as...
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Backspaces around the world
Backspaces is being enjoyed all over the place. Here are a few images from Instagram.
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