Notices by Ari "Two Naps" Jackson (arisummerland@beige.party)

Tonight I did a monumental thing.

I emailed a newer, local next-gen #typewriter repair person to open up the conversation about rehoming most of my stock of machines.

This is the stuff of legend, honestly!

All typewriter collectors want to hear from old people who have collected so many machines that they don't know what to do with them.

I've been the lucky recipient of a barn find, myself.

Since the pandemic started, though ,and especially since my loss of my relationship, for many, many reasons, I haven't had the time or energy for such a hobby.

Machines have simply languished in my possession, and that's not fair to the world. These machines need to get out and into the hands of people who want to use them.

We shall see if this young, enthusiastic repair person gets back in contact with me. I have a sneaking suspicion that they are also neurodivergent.

I don't have any desire for a bulk rehoming of machines. In fact, I suggested a gradual transfer of machines over the next few years so that they can afford to take on the stock and keep their business going.

I will end up taking an incredibly deep loss financially, but the whole point of collecting in the first place was to keep machines out of key cutters' hands and out of the hands of people on Pinterest who would just want to paint them white and stick cacti in them.

The last time I went to a national gathering of typewriter enthusiasts was 2019. I long for those days, but the entire group has splintered. Unfortunately, we let politics enter the arena. We broke our own damn rules.

I also long for less stock and more space to do other things. It's time for my sister and me to start cleaning out my dad's art studio and make some progress on repairing the building. That will include getting rid of most of his cameras -- and most of my typewriters. I'm OK with that!

Were I a less scrupulous person, I would basically just advertise a "barn sale" to other collectors, first come with a truck, first served. But I really want to encourage a younger generation to get into the art of repairing and preserving machines. If I can supply stock to this young repair person over the next few years, it will be an honor.

I promised that if we do meet up, I will demonstrate the secret typewriter handshake. It is a thing!

@RamenCatholic

This actually sounds do-able...

I have watched so many programs about cults and how much money they make and how they suck people in... is that expertise?

(Also how do we do this ethically/legally becomes my question I do not want to be reborn over and over again as a cockroach)

@RamenCatholic I'm ready. We just need investors with money!

I discovered a jar of preserved lemons that I made... ummm, some time late last year? There is no date on the lid (mad at myself for that!) and now I want to use them.

HMU if you have any good ideas for vegan/veggie dishes I could accent with this weird thing. (I also eat chicken, turkey, eggs, and some fish.)

I just took one of the lemons out and chopped it up and ate some as-is, and it's unique! I preserved these with black peppercorns and bay leaf.

I am trying some chopped up bits of one of the lemon rinds in some tonic water and it's an interesting taste. Salty and lemony? Pretty good for summer, but I probably will use plain seltzer next time. Tonic water is always too sweet for me.

Anyway, lmk if you have a fave dish that uses this unique ingredient! Thanks, kindly.

#cooking #RecipeRequest #PreservedLemon

So #TurtleTuesday is a thing?

#TortugaTuesday

Encountered this friend at the lake earlier this month.

My friends, I think it's time for us to go feral. I think the weirder we become, the harder we will be to control. We can still be sane underneath the weirdness, right? Right? 🤔

One of my clients yesterday infodumped to me about orcas.

It was fascinating! They had been on a trip to Alaska where they did things like learn about forests (ALSO COOL), and glaciers (literally cool), and, apparently, whales.

I did not know that orca society is matriarchal and matrilineal. The naturalist who talked to them about whales called all of the male whales "Bubba". This is because the grandmother whales are the ones who do most of the hunting, and when male whales are born, they don't hunt. They never hunt. Their mothers feed them until they die. (The mothers, I mean.)

So the male whales have a much shorter lifespan because they won't get fed after their bio moms die. The grandmothers can live to 80-something, but male whales often only live to 50, because their mother die before they do and their cousins, sisters, and adjacent grandmothers, don't give a shit about them after their moms die. Aw, poor Bubbas.

Apparently it is the grandmother orcas who instigated flipping boats for fun. And it was a grandmother orca who instigated the wearing a salmon as a hat for fun trend among them.

Damn if I'm not in love with orcas now! I think I need to form a gang of granny-aged people called The Orcas. We can all have crocheted salmon hats and run around on our three-wheeled bikes tipping over Teslas.

For a number of years now I have wanted to form a brigade of people who know how to sew by hand so that we could do this thing (that I had seen on Instagram) which is sit out in public and help people repair their clothes.

I guess that will be a retirement goal for me: have more meat space friends and go out to do public good and sow (sew?) mayhem.

@ATLeagle @MaryAustinBooks @pascaline

Yeah I mean it's not like they were good and then all of a sudden now they're bad. But the story about the trophy is beyond ridiculous, and it's incredibly rude to the players.

@MaryAustinBooks @pascaline

Had anybody else's confused grandfather stayed up on that stage (or jumped up on that stage) security would've taken him down.

I'm a big soccer fan, but this FIFA nonsense is making me really mad. FIFA head can go jump in a lake for kissing up.

@RamenCatholic @davesdogmaggie @Taweret

Wait wait WAIT, we can vote for more than one?!?!?!

#TeamMothra

@mayintoronto I'll be honest, there is no cheese like government cheese. I got to experience it briefly in the 1980s and it tasted really good. I certainly hope that some of this cheese that stored in Missouri isn't that old, though!!!

@RamenCatholic Yeah you and I -- same. I did better when somebody else managed the utilities etc. I'm learning not to harm myself by giving everything to others, but it is a lifelong lesson. 😖

@RamenCatholic @adhdeanasl Oh, you belong on beige, my dear friend! Doooo iiiit...

@theropologist

@RamenCatholic

I would constantly overthink it, be trying to balance out the power differential, and be giving money away.

This is why I am so poor all the time, too. Sociopathic billionaires don't think this way.

@MissConstrue

Better days ahead... I'll charge my saw batteries. 😉

@RamenCatholic

AGREED.

And don't get me started on "smothered" burritos. Those are just fake enchiladas because of the flour tortilla.

Corn all the way!

@RamenCatholic

Zomgs those are BEEFY.

@researchfairy Aw darn. A friend in MN desperately wants a kitten. That's a bit far.

@Alice @LRRRonEarth @HG

I dig them both! We are lucky to have them here.

Are we sure we all didn't die in 2016 when that weasel got into the large hadron collider? Cos this year kinda feels like a version of hell so far...