My fortune cookie said that the year ahead would bring new experiences. Before I prepare for the new take a look at what happened in the previous year:
January
- A consul 232 showed up and I explored the world of samizdat and the Typosphere behind the Iron Curtain.
- I lent some typewriters to the Arizona Association for Supportive Child Care for a special event they were holding centering around Childsplay's production of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type.
February
March
- NBC came by my classroom to film for a piece on the Typewriter Renaissance.
- The Fourth Phoenix Type-In was a rousing success.
April
May
June
July
- Sent a letter to Keith Sharon at the OCR. I still have the reply to his letter in my stationary drawer. I don't know if I want to send it.
- I was still cloning onto the idea that I might be a vlogger. I like tea.
August
September
October
November
- I gave a lecture about post-modernity, the quest for the authentic, post-structuralism, and the CTP. It was described by one attendee as "transformative." Another called it, "That stuff I had to listen to to get hot cocoa and cookies."
- A student spilled pineapple into one of my typewriters. It was an accident.
December
- I took a cool noir image of the pineapple typewriter.
- I also wrapped a typewriter and put it under the tree for a photo shoot.
I reviewed my posts from the last year. The frequency with which I have posted has slowed to a little more than once a week. All this year I have been a little stuck and that has come out in my work. It was a long, slow slide to blah. I tried my hand at vlogging, but I found it to be too time consuming and being in front of the camera was not what I wanted. I tried to walk through a typewriter restoration, but I ran out of steam somewhere in the middle. The USB typewriter worked, but I wasn't bowled over by the experience of making it. Lackluster. That would be the summation of by blogging year.
Even though I waded hip-deep into a treacly morass there were some bright spots. The NBC story was fun. I enjoyed the process of turning my blog into a book. I made some funny images. I had that awesome display and lecture.
With the bad there is good. New days are ahead. I hope that you have enjoyed every fun-packed bit that MM 2013 had to offer. Now we can move onto 2014.
