Analog Assassin
@analogassasin.bsky.social
Poet with a typewriter and plant addiction.
Pretty satisfying to pull a machine out, blow the dust off, obsess for a little bit … and then see glimmering results. Those type slugs are producing crisp letters!
Final reveal later …
#typewriter #theseslugsareclean #coffeeandOCD
Final reveal later …
#typewriter #theseslugsareclean #coffeeandOCD
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Pretty satisfying to pull a machine out, blow the dust off, obsess for a little bit … and then see glimmering results. Those type slugs are producing crisp letters!
Final reveal later …
#typewriter #theseslugsareclean #coffeeandOCD
Final reveal later …
#typewriter #theseslugsareclean #coffeeandOCD
Thank you Studio 44, it’s been a pleasure working with you this month.
#typewriter #poetry #1955OlivettiStudio44 #clutter
#typewriter #poetry #1955OlivettiStudio44 #clutter
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thank you Studio 44, it’s been a pleasure working with you this month.
#typewriter #poetry #1955OlivettiStudio44 #clutter
#typewriter #poetry #1955OlivettiStudio44 #clutter
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Last day of the month means last sittings with this wonderful 1955 Olivetti Studio 44. It’s been a great companion for November.
Now to decide who comes out for the month of December. Another Olivetti, or perhaps an Olympia? Maybe a very simple Smith-Corona?
Decisions, decisions …
#typewriter
Now to decide who comes out for the month of December. Another Olivetti, or perhaps an Olympia? Maybe a very simple Smith-Corona?
Decisions, decisions …
#typewriter
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Last day of the month means last sittings with this wonderful 1955 Olivetti Studio 44. It’s been a great companion for November.
Now to decide who comes out for the month of December. Another Olivetti, or perhaps an Olympia? Maybe a very simple Smith-Corona?
Decisions, decisions …
#typewriter
Now to decide who comes out for the month of December. Another Olivetti, or perhaps an Olympia? Maybe a very simple Smith-Corona?
Decisions, decisions …
#typewriter
Been awake since 3AM … there is a 3AM, if you didn’t know. I see lots of them, as a lifelong insomniac.
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Been awake since 3AM … there is a 3AM, if you didn’t know. I see lots of them, as a lifelong insomniac.
I remember reading Maya Angelou describe writing The Color Purple, when I was a kid in school, as the entire story and characters existing on their own, and how she was merely the portal for them to enter this world. That struck me profoundly and never left me.
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I remember reading Maya Angelou describe writing The Color Purple, when I was a kid in school, as the entire story and characters existing on their own, and how she was merely the portal for them to enter this world. That struck me profoundly and never left me.
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
We tell ourselves we’ll have “more control this year.”
I didn’t.
#typewriter #poetry #gluttony #iatewaytoomuch
I didn’t.
#typewriter #poetry #gluttony #iatewaytoomuch
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We tell ourselves we’ll have “more control this year.”
I didn’t.
#typewriter #poetry #gluttony #iatewaytoomuch
I didn’t.
#typewriter #poetry #gluttony #iatewaytoomuch
In this new season of “firsts,” today is the first Thanksgiving without my father. There won’t be a text conversation and phone call this year.
We didn’t have the closest relationship, but there was love there, and because of that, I miss him dearly today.
#typewriter #poetry #seasonoffirsts
We didn’t have the closest relationship, but there was love there, and because of that, I miss him dearly today.
#typewriter #poetry #seasonoffirsts
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In this new season of “firsts,” today is the first Thanksgiving without my father. There won’t be a text conversation and phone call this year.
We didn’t have the closest relationship, but there was love there, and because of that, I miss him dearly today.
#typewriter #poetry #seasonoffirsts
We didn’t have the closest relationship, but there was love there, and because of that, I miss him dearly today.
#typewriter #poetry #seasonoffirsts
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Time for the tourists and hungry college kids returning for a home-cooked meal to make their final approach into San Diego …
#typewriter #poetry #touristcity
#typewriter #poetry #touristcity
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Time for the tourists and hungry college kids returning for a home-cooked meal to make their final approach into San Diego …
#typewriter #poetry #touristcity
#typewriter #poetry #touristcity
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I don’t write about writing very often - it feels a bit too preciously self indulgent, and a little too “inside baseball.” But there is something terrifying, at times, about a blank piece of paper … but (again) as I often say, “writers write.”
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I don’t write about writing very often - it feels a bit too preciously self indulgent, and a little too “inside baseball.” But there is something terrifying, at times, about a blank piece of paper … but (again) as I often say, “writers write.”
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
#typewriter #poetry #writerswrite
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Don’t get me wrong, I love print … I type on actual paper … but the Sunday paper (and especially the one here in San Diego) has become little more than a delivery device for 10lbs of bird cage liner. Local journalism is important … wasteful sales flyers, are not.
#typewriter #poetry
#typewriter #poetry
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Don’t get me wrong, I love print … I type on actual paper … but the Sunday paper (and especially the one here in San Diego) has become little more than a delivery device for 10lbs of bird cage liner. Local journalism is important … wasteful sales flyers, are not.
#typewriter #poetry
#typewriter #poetry
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Coffee is life … certainly mine.
The stack of paper is roughly 80%(?) of the poetry I’ve written in the past year-plus. Sometimes it seems like a lot, and other times it feels like far too little.
Without a doubt, my desire to write is more powerful than any other desire.
#typewriter #poetry
The stack of paper is roughly 80%(?) of the poetry I’ve written in the past year-plus. Sometimes it seems like a lot, and other times it feels like far too little.
Without a doubt, my desire to write is more powerful than any other desire.
#typewriter #poetry
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Coffee is life … certainly mine.
The stack of paper is roughly 80%(?) of the poetry I’ve written in the past year-plus. Sometimes it seems like a lot, and other times it feels like far too little.
Without a doubt, my desire to write is more powerful than any other desire.
#typewriter #poetry
The stack of paper is roughly 80%(?) of the poetry I’ve written in the past year-plus. Sometimes it seems like a lot, and other times it feels like far too little.
Without a doubt, my desire to write is more powerful than any other desire.
#typewriter #poetry
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The sun is out, far away, and when the clouds separate just a little, slivers of warm sunlight carve through the damp grey.
#typewriter #poetry #haiku
#typewriter #poetry #haiku
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The sun is out, far away, and when the clouds separate just a little, slivers of warm sunlight carve through the damp grey.
#typewriter #poetry #haiku
#typewriter #poetry #haiku
We’re still very much in the middle of our yearly (if we’re lucky) brief rainy season; like Black Friday is to retail business, this period of rain is our one chance to fill reservoirs and nourish the hillsides.
#typewriter #poetry #itsraininginsocal
#typewriter #poetry #itsraininginsocal
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
We’re still very much in the middle of our yearly (if we’re lucky) brief rainy season; like Black Friday is to retail business, this period of rain is our one chance to fill reservoirs and nourish the hillsides.
#typewriter #poetry #itsraininginsocal
#typewriter #poetry #itsraininginsocal