2021 A to Z: Letter A…Weird Holidays
2021 A to Z: Letter A is for Feast of the Ass Day (January 14) The Feast of the Ass
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2021 A to Z: Letter A is for Feast of the Ass Day (January 14) The Feast of the Ass
Welcome to Word Wednesday. I know I usually give you a “word of the day”, but today, I give you
In prep for the A to Z blog challenge of April, #atoz [check out my theme reveal “Weird Holidays”], I
This is a map of the Mississippi River, created in 1944 by a cartographer named Harold Fisk. It’s called a
“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When
Errata lists in the early days of printed books, then, were themselves a sort of early comment section—the place where
Dear Tom Hanks, Thank you for making typewriters cool again. I think, typewriters force you to think. They offer a
From the 1920s- 1970s. Which Typewriter is Right for you? This image is courtesy of mycupofretro
Since I’m trying to be more consistent with the blog for 2021… I decided to jump into the A to
Yes, mitsakes (Mistakes) happen. Back when you were using a manual typewriter, there was no backspace or spelling / grammar
This post has an image of a large Corona typewriter on Broadway show Ed Wynn’s The Perfect Fool (1922).
Typewriters, or the ideas of typewriters have been around since the fourteenth century. In the beginning, more than one hundred
In 1937’s “Ready Willing and Able” movie features Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon dancing on the typewriter keys, during the
Doug Nichol’s 2016/2017 documentary film, California Typewriter has a mix of creativity and technology, includes artists, collectors, and writers such
Two minutes, four seconds of typewriters on screen, set to Leroy Anderson’s irrepressibly jaunty “The Typewriter.” The supercut, courtesy of Ariel