New Year's Eve at the ABQ Museum

Some writings gleaned from this end-of-year event:
















It's become a tradition of sorts to post these pages harvested from our public typewriter events, like a crowd-sourced poetry collective. Of course, I've already filtered out the usual den of quick brown foxes.

Our next public event is January 15 at the ABQ Museum for their Third Thursday Event, where we will have a display table with typewriter, tools and other maintenance-related doodads including repair manuals, as the theme of the evening will be reuse, repurpose and repair. As per the event description:

Start the new year with a fresh take on creativity and sustainability at January’s Third Thursday. Discover how to reduce, reuse, repurpose, and repair everyday items through hands-on activities led by local community partners. Before you toss something out or haul that bin to the thrift store, come down to the museum and learn how to give your old items a new life in the new year. After all, one person’s trash is another’s favorite art supply.

We were invited to participate in this event because, while learning to maintain one's own collection of typewriters becomes second-nature to a seasoned collector, to the uninitiated (and Museum staffers) it seems a minor miracle has taken place if even one machine can be rescued from the clutches of time's inexorable pull of decrepitude. While I don't intend on actually repairing a typewriter during this event, I'll bring along a 5-series Smith-Corona and perform some faux cleaning and degreasing, perhaps even demonstrating how to adjust on-feet and motion and escapement trip point, all the while referring to that most wonderful of resource, the Typewriter Repair Bible. Thank you again Right Reverend Ted Munk for doing the Lord's work! Also, a goodly selection of typewriter repair tools including type bar benders and such should satisfy the geekiest of geeks.

Here's my video about the event: