As someone who deals with multiple sleep disorders, I often find myself up at all hours of the night (or early in the morning, depending on your perspective). I’ll try not to bore anyone with the myriad of details, but one of the issues that I contend with is chronic pain brought on by problems …
I first discovered Joe Van Cleave under the same circumstances that so many others have — I was searching for information on typewriters. My curiosity about typewriters was still in the earliest stages back then. Unlike most of the other resources that I was locating at that point in time, Joe’s content kept popping up in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I find typewriters to be endearing for a number of reasons. Among them would be the fact that these machines in good condition require little in the way of repairs over the course of their existence, relatively speaking. Beyond that, the seemingly simple notion that typewriters can actually be repaired (often by the owners themselves), …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
