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Drinking and Typing at America's Oldest Press Club
Sometimes beer is a muse, sometimes it’s just a beverage. On April 27th, find out at an evening of typing fueled by craft brews from the U.S., Italy and Germany–with typewriters from those same countries. We’ll also have a great beer-tasting, hosting the the Philadelphia Daily News’ Beer Reporter, Joe Sixpack. $15 covers the tasting and some tasty snacks–bring a working manual typewriter and it’s just $10. (we’ll provide nice stationery, stamped envelopes and a copy of “The Writer’s Sidekick” — a hard-boiled thesaurus cooked up behind prison walls!)
Two Mature Technologies Walk Into A Bar…
Oh, so sorry for the long delay in posting here… stuck in ActualSpace, neglecting PixelSpace.
So… one day I realized that both typewriters and cassette recorders have this ribbon-y thing running through them, back and forth.
Both are chunky, and both create permanent artifacts. Both are occasionally feeling a bit, er, neglected under a wave of glowing tablets.
So, let’s invite fans of both to a cozy bar (restaurant, too, so yes Matt “Manyfingers” Cidoni, you are legal/invited!) in Philly, I thought, and called Mr. Fergus Carey before I could re-think. Fergie of course being Fergie, said, “Why not?” and now hello Tape N Type. A Type-IN, but louder. Activities will include: (but are not limited to) : Typing Speed Competition with wifty prizes, Mystery Mixtape Box (“One Tape Enters, One Tape Leaves”), Headphone Charades, Typewriter/Boom Box Swap, Instant Interviews and no doubt more. Bring Typewriters, Audio Cassettes and machines to play same, headphones/earbuds, journalist-style portable tape decks, Carbon Paper, and mixtapes to toss in said MM Box.
WHEN: Sat., 15 Oct. 2-6 pm
WHERE: Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom St., downtown Philadelphia, just blocks from Market East Station.
PRICE: Free, if you’re carrying anything relevant to the above list of Mature Technologies!
RSVP to phillytyper@gmail.com.
Here’s the poster below as a pdf
No robot typeface, is a robot okay?
Along a busy road and train tracks, he stands, tall and eternally startled...
Filed under manual typewriter, Olympia SM9
