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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 1d

My lady did call me “Goof-boy”!

Mayhap she hath her reasons, i’faith.

Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 1d

Mrs. Dudgeon goes, “I need a belt,” to which I naturally replied:
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#FallFriday

The Fall - No Bulbs

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

PSA for writers of historical fiction or period pieces. And by “historical” I mean pre-1990s.

The word “font:”

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Is that where you order hits on big thinkers?

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

#zing

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

lose tube

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d

Created with "those who would speak with ease and elegance" in mind, this book from 1846 offers detailed insight about the various postures of the mouth: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 2d

movies have given us so much technical information about water

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Let's read a bread.

Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Correct. I have half Swedish ancestry and often I believe myself to be smiling, and everyone goes, Why are you so mad/grouchy/indifferent?

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly *regular people* had never heard the term (or “typeface,” really). They would have said “the lettering” or “the print,” maybe “the type.” No-one in the 1960s would have said “that font is tiny,” let alone in your 19th century novel.

THANK YOU.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone now uses it interchangeably with the word “typeface,” which is what graphic designers and typographers said pre-desktop publishing, which meant the style of the letterforms you SEE on the page, Helvetica, Garamond, etc. I doubt designers ever used the term FONT back then.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Originally this meant the collection of metal letters used by typesetters. Comes from the word for “fountain.” In the digital age it technically refers to the computer file that stores all the information that allows the display of the type, the various weights, bolds, and italics, and so forth.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

PSA for writers of historical fiction or period pieces. And by “historical” I mean pre-1990s.

The word “font:”

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoying THE LOWDOWN TV show, though it took half an episode before I was sure it wasn't set in the 70s, when they finally mentioned vaping and a cellphone appeared. Maybe Tulsa still looks like that?

Anyway, my main thing is that whenever I see the title I have this Wire classic on my mind.

Lowdown (2006 Remastered Version)

YouTube video by Wire - Topic

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, the Pietà is cool. Sistine, okay. But the rest is vulgar looted crap all jumbled together in a vile cluster.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, I've been to the Vatican—it's trash.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 2d

Ha. This reminds me of that story—probably apocryphal—about Mozart's older sister playing an unresolved chord on the piano downstairs just as Wolfgang had gone to bed, just to madden him. He'd have to get up, go down and resolve it before he could get to sleep.

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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for your kind of words.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 3d

Mais où sont les vibes d'antan?

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 3d

You're going to need a bigger battery and a better modem in there.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · Dec 27

Well, I’ve examined our insides and I’m afraid we’re all filled with densely packed colored cables. This was a dream, but still: there’s your problem right there.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 3d

The horn of plenty of cars.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 3d

One must imagine Buddo home and dry.

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 3d

What shall I lavish my attention on today, hmm?

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 4d

Was just torn from a dream, in possession of a phrase and gripped with an irrepressible urgency that it must be recorded immediately before it becomes lost in the fog that separates wake and sleep. And that phrase? Hotel for samurai.

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