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Give me poem topics
On Saturday I'll be typing poems for the public at a neighborhood festival. I need to get my lyrical juices flowing. Give me a topic, any topic, and I'll type up a poem that will appear in my next blog...
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Your poems are served
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Ripples
I felt it when the Typewriter Insurgency Manifesto came to me over twelve years ago:THIS NEEDS TO BE SAID.I sensed possibility, but I did not know what would come of it. I did not know it would lead to...
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The Silver Surfer and The Belle of the Insurgency at Sayler Park
Sayler Park is Cincinnati's westernmost neighborhood, a narrow strip along the Ohio River with lots of history and noble trees. The producer of Sayler Park Sustains, a yearly festival emphasizing...
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A visit to Typewriter Chicago
Typewriter Chicago is the brainchild of Lucas Dul, and the second new typewriter shop I've had the opportunity to visit this summer (after TB Writers Plus). Lucas just recently secured a...
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QWERTYFEST MKE 2024
This was the second year of QWERTYFEST in Milwaukee, and organizers Tea Krulos and Molly Snyder plan to create a tradition. Timed to coincide with Typewriter Day (June 23) and located in the city where...
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Gratitude to the machine: Clarice Lispector on typewriters
The brilliant, often baffling Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) had a love affair with typewriters: specifically, an Underwood Finger-Flite Champion, an Olympia SF, and an Underwood Dora....
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A case study in digital writing
 Philosopher Martin Heidegger spent over 65 years handwriting his thoughts. His manuscripts piled up.His writing is small, and hard to decipher for those who aren't familiar with the obsolete...
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A case study in writing on paper
As shown in my previous post, one of my current writing projects depends heavily on digital technology.My other main project is unbesmirched by digits. I'm assembling a collection of aphoristic...
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A fine flatbed
This 1912 Royal no. 5 "flatbed" machine was one of a group of three typewriters I bought locally. The other two were a very nice green Lettera 22 and a Blick 7 that needed some serious disassembly and...
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August '24 typewriter safari
I stopped by the Ohio Valley Antique Mall today and checked out the latest crop of you-know-whats.I'll tell you right now that I didn't buy any of them. But I can still create a quiz: Which of these...
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Notebooks I have known
Bob Sassone was curious to know more about the notebooks I use. So here is a rundown—of interest, maybe, to readers who love to write by hand (I suspect there's a significant overlap with typewriter...
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Louis L'Amour on typewriters
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) was a spectacularly successful author of Western novels and stories. Here he is at his Olympia SM3 in 1953, and at an IBM Model B or C in later life.Dave Cannon has discovered...
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Nadex Pioneer typewriter
Meet the Nadex Pioneer!Yes, it's yet another product of Shanghai Weilv, the only remaining manufacturer of manual typewriters on the planet. And it's not a new design, but the same thing as the Royal...
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AI can't generate this (yet)
As my readers surely know, generative AI continues to make impressive/frightening strides. Chatbots pass the Turing test with flying colors. AI-generated images, music, and videos have eerie detail and...
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Free Thoughts, October 2024
This time I was joined by Sayo, a Xavier student, to type "free thoughts" for the public. We had plenty of requests, and I captured only a few of the results in photos.Sayo was new at this, but he...
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Southworth air mail stationery
What a spectacular box of stationery I found at my neighborhood antique mall this afternoon! I love the lettering and imagery on the box and the lightning-bolt motif.Southworth paper has special...
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Costume party type-in at TB Writers Plus
TB Writers Plus in Dayton hosted a costume party/type-in last weekend. It was a treat to attend.Here's the new room, bright and spacious:My border collie, Della, came along and was eager to explore and...
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People are wondering ...
Well, this is interesting.My recent post about what AI can't generate (namely, typewritten text) has quickly accumulated 19,000 views, almost matching my most popular post (on typewriters' Achilles'...
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