I sent the fax to myself, something called a loopback fax. I do not actually own a fax machine (analog faxing). I pay for a fax service and can easily send the fax to myself. Also, my fax number is posted above. So send me your art if you’re equipped to do so.
Just in case anyone’s interested, here’s what the original looks like.
Typecast done with a Royal Safari typewriter
A thermal print of the Royal Safari I used to type this post.
San Francisco’s Angry Poet
One of my favorite poets, August Kleinzahler, uses a Smith-Corona typewriter exclusively, and sometimes while sitting on the toilet. In the photo, the bad boy of American poetry has a drink at one of his hangouts, the Zam Zam bar in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
Spent the morning working on blog design, that is, WordPress stuff. Also, I received a huge pile of microcassette tapes from a guy on eBay who just wanted to offload them pretty cheap. I plan to use them in my Cassette Tape Radio Show. That’s all coming soon — now that I’m recovering from carpal tunnel surgery.
Ruben Flores in his shop, U.S. Office Machines
For my birthday, Sandy accompanied me to the Benton Museum of Art on the campus of Pomona College, where we took in three interesting new exhibitions.
Roy Thurston Painting: Acrylic Polyurethane on Aluminum
The caption reads:
“(NY58) NEW YORK, MARCH 12-FIGHT CITY HALL ON SCHOOL BUS PLAN-Taking a page from civil rights demonstrators’ tactics, white parents march in New York’s City Hall Plaza today in protest against plans to bus children from neighborhood to other schools for the purpose of balancing racial enrollment. Some 15,000 braved the swirling March snowstorm. First they gathered at the Brooklyn Board of Education, then marched across the bridge to this show at City Hall, extreme right background. (APWirephoto) gv521019stoft1964 (SEE AP WIRE STORY)”
The caption reads:
“(CWP1) SAN FRANCISCO, July 13–THEY HELP TELL CONVENTION STORY TO NATION. This is a battery of Wirephoto transmitters in the Associated Press photo workroom at San Francisco’s Cow Palace—part of a vast complex of electronic equipment being used to carry the story of the Republican convention to the nation and the world. (AP Wirephoto) (rhs21605stf)1964. (See AP wire story by Wilbur Martin.)”
I topped off my little birthday celebration with a complementary latte at Starbucks.
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