There are celebrities among all walks of life — that includes the typewriter community of course. While Tom Hanks happens to be a very well known celebrity who loves typewriters, I view Richard Polt as a bonafide “typewriter celebrity”. Richard wrote what many have come to view as the seminal book on how so many […]
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One of the things I hoped to accomplish with this blog, even before launching it, was to feature some of the personalities who are active in the typewriter community. I wanted to turn the tables on those who have worked so hard and given so much of their time to shine the spotlight on these
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I’m giving myself permission to type out some random thoughts this time around, as opposed to every entry sticking to a single focused theme. Although these thoughts are still all tied together by typewriters in one way or another. So with that in mind… I recently reached the point where I had acquired enough typewriters
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l was recently asked if l was a typewriter collector, to which I replied “no”. This despite the fact that l had amassed a small collection of these machines in the few months that had passed since buying my first. I feel the same way when it comes to my vinyl records. Even though I
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It stands to reason that most people who take the time to read blogs about typewriters, such as this one, are themselves typewriter enthusiasts. As such, I don’t feel overly awkward about asking if you remember what your first typewriter smelled like. Well, do you? I ask in part because I already know that I’ll
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I’ll readily admit it — I suck at poetry. To be fair, I don’t really try to write poetry. I’d like to think that were I capable of capturing my thoughts in a condensed form that were capable of conveying a story, then I would be writing songs. I doubt that any of them would
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Even though I had been typecasting for nearly a week, I did not realize that this was the case until typecasting was explained to me by my fellow Typewriter Club LIVE members. Similarly, I launched The Typewritemosphere, which is now officially part of the Typosphere before I was fully aware of what exactly the Typosphere
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I wanted to take this opportunity to wish anyone who might be reading this blog a happy new year. The fact that The Typewritemosphere has passed from one year into the next hardly seems worthy of celebration as it’s still just a week old at this point in time. However, the fact that we all
As a few of my fellow typeshperians have just recently created new content focused on an interesting variety of typing papers, I thought that I too might try something along these lines. Just in case you missed them, you really should check out Joe Van Cleave’s YouTube channel as well as Gregory Short’s blog, Poor
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As I sit here typing out this note, 2020 is drawing to a close. I can’t imagine that there are too many people who aren’t thankful to see this year come to an end. This has been a crappy year to end all crappy years, at least those years during my lifetime that is. Yet
