http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-amazon-woody-allen-20150114-story.html#page=1 Woody Allen, the L.A. Times article says has partnered with AMAZON streaming video service. “Allen and Amazon are an unusual pairing Allen is an unrepentant Luddite who bangs out screenplays on the same manual typewriter he’s used for half a century and reportedly prints out his emails and dictates responses to an…
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Ceramicist/potter Adam Silverman travels the world, and he keeps an eye out for typewriter memorabilia for me where ever he goes. He also collects hotel stationery, when it’s nice, and that’s a diminishing world, believe me. (When was the last time YOU snagged a few pieces of nice paper from a hotel room to write…
I had a tough day today. I went to the funeral of my long-time friend Sid Wald, who was 98 and had lived a long life, but I am still sad to have said my final ‘goodbye’. Before I left, I wrote a 2-page typed letter to Jeff, his son, with my random thoughts about…
My friend Kathy Cotter adroitly noticed this art piece at an estate sale she went to this weekend in Pacific Palisades. This is a piece by Roderick Stevens, about 2 feet x 2 feet. Asking price was $4,200. but might go for less. If you’re interested, let me know… and I’ll tell the seller. Please Share
Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and I became friends the first week she was on the job. Since then she’s batted it out of the park with major exhibitions. She invited me to come back for one this month, but I couldn’t get there… she had a perfect gift…
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Chuck Larsen is my personal clipping service. He manages to catch EVERYTHING — and I mean EVERYTHING — about typewriters that’s happening on the Westside. He’s found black beauties in Cuba and brought back the tales of their Hemingway history. He’s noticed them in Outer Mongolia. He’s incredible. When he sent me this story in…
People notice typewriters when they’re out & about. Sometimes, if I’m lucky, they’ll tell me about one. Or even better, take a shot of it. Karen & Roger were out for a walk in their neighborhood when Karen spotted this one in a window on Beverly Boulevard. They didn’t tell me where the store was,…
On Saturday morning, Brian came over bearing three typewriters in hard leather cases. He was giving one — his first, a manual — to his 12-year-old grandddaughter Georgie. He wanted me to choose which of the other two I wanted. He knew I’ve been looking for a portable, electric, in a hard case that I…
