chrisseggerman.bsky.social
He/Him. Kept man in Vermont, late of Arizona. Sometime writer; calligrapher; fountain pen enthusiast.
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A lot of recent U.S. military records, including service records used by living veterans, burned in a fire in 1973.
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This was the one I... tended towards skip... in Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphy book. Would that he could see the access we have to scanned manuscripts!
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Marc Drogin's book has a chapter on the script, which I have avoided doodling around with for 30+ years.
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Look at the N, too. The previous example has those extremely thin vertical strokes with the nib at the thinnest stroke possible. The serifs really stick out on those due to contrast.
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ebay.us/m/KvZrFT
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I only talked with one person I knew and people who complimented or talked about my sign. Also told a guy in an Andor shirt "I have friends everywhere." I had no idea what parking was like so parked at Aldi. Walking back gave me time to decompress.
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I tend to like the ripple ebonites. I have a vintage Waterman 52 but also Ranga and a few other brands. I have a Ranga from Peyton Street eith a Sheaffer Imperial section on my list.
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Making signs likeI did yesterday also made me miss my old Hunt/Speedball Steelbrushes which are buried in a desk somewhere at my Mom's. The 3/4 inch is about 19mm. THAT will make a sign. 4/4.
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I don't know if you could fit the nib and feed back into a Pilot section or get a maker who makes custom bodies for Parallels to do likewise. But there are broader nibs out there for poster or sign work. 3/
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They hold more ink with a syringe or push piston filler, in part of the barrel. However the plastic on the 9's cap and the 11's section is cracking. The caps have O-ring seals and roll-stop bumps instead of clips. They may be wider for chonkier nibs. 2/
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Had followed him out of curiosity before the compilation of his true colors came out. Had no idea who the guy posing in my foreground was. Someone addressed him and said "But I don't watch you." "You must! You know me!" Scrabbling for those 15 minutes of fame.
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That is a legit way to do it!
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I loved that for him-- the ghosting. He photobombed a picture I was trying to get of the gazebo.
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We are terrible at honest conversations. We'd rather invent boogeymen like the Satanic Panic or legions of Communists or Undocumented Criminals than actually own our problems. My generation is estranging their parents about their poor behavior and they still won't be honest.
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(Calligrapher Hat). I first learned about Titivillus from Mark Drogin's excellent book about Medieval Calligraphy. Titivillus may now be the demon of typos-- demons gotta stay current, and oh, his workload now!- but he is a demon of *scribal error* if you are writing, and when he got identified.
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Been reading Richard White's The Republic For Which It Stands (Oxford History of the U.S.) covering 1865-1896 and ex-Confederate wives used to either practically or literally hang outside Johnson's office petitioning for their husbands' franchises to be reinstated. They learned nothing.
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We won't see casualties. They just get fridged.
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They'll go up to Nashua for no sales tax, but they damned sure don't want to live there.
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This absurd and dangerous liar is @erinburnett.bsky.social
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Ouch!
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(CORPOS WAILING IN PAIN)
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It breaks. It leaks. Ice melts.
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I am impressed by this amount. I have used Nanami A5 for a few years and they last me maybe 16 months at 480 pages. Somewhere I have a Life Noble A5 that may be next, just for something different. I need to tend to my journal more often.
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I used the pages like that in the big Moleskine Extra Large cahiers I kept my reading journal in, as that had a list of books read, but only once on purpose. I have had some cheaper ones fray out over time.
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Pa had to survive for the story. Otherwise they would have been justified in shooting him for taking their hoarded grain, even though he paid for it! He violated their property! /sarcasm
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At one point he was illegally squatting on Osage land, waiting for the Federal government to take it, which didn't happen soon enough for him.
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Hard to disagree with this.
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I find some biographies and autobiographies so different from my own situation that they only have a small connection with my own life, so they are close to escapism. "Why yes, I would like to know about this doomed expedition!" etc.
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It's like a feature-length Black Mirror episode feom 1995.
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(Only 25 years ago though)
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My first gig out of college was at a small Texas weekly. The school board meetings were always loaded eith drama.
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Suppose there is a cat that only exists to eat these patties...