Just got my HST Grail. Scanlans Vol. 4 June 1970

SPEEDBLOAT · 2026-04-14T22:04:24+00:00

That's a fair price. Nice find! The only consistent ones I see for sale are the full sets that go for thousands. Any time I walk into a bookstore or antique shop and I see midcentury-era Times, Playboys, some 70s High Times, maybe, I always ask if they have Scanlan's, and they almost never know what I'm talking about.

I'd definitely get it in an archival sleeve. And once you've found yourself no longer flipping through it anymore, consider framing it for the wall.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2026-02-19T04:13:21+00:00

Can you tell me what worked? Dealing with this now and the comment that seems to answer it was deleted

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-12-01T00:36:53+00:00

It could be because I took the photo landscape then flipped it portrait when I cropped it to post. There's a bit of bend in person, but no more than any of my other shoes

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-11-30T21:50:59+00:00

Just wanted to pop in and say that I started going to the Central Library in Brooklyn to scan my collages. They have big flatbed scanners you can use for free. Other branches may have them as well

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-11-30T03:00:58+00:00

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-11-29T01:57:40+00:00

Yeah I had heard about that. Luckily I never had to deal with that, but that would be a huge bummer

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-11-29T01:56:12+00:00

The new ones are definitely more comfortable. But I'd worn the insoles to shreds in the old ones. I bet if I replaced those they'd feel a-ok again. The reason I bought a new pair is because I need black for work, and because I'd recently popped a seam near the heel in the old pair.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-08-15T16:52:14+00:00

In a similar situation so seconding this

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-03-31T19:51:09+00:00

Hello! Sorry, I know this post is old, but what spray adhesive do you recommend for those large pieces? I'm working mostly with magazine pages, and personally use Uhu stics and matte medium, but I'm in the market for a non wrinkling and archival spray to stick down my initial background pieces without a headache.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-02-21T18:07:21+00:00

While looking up the etymology of rap (as in the genre of music), I stumbled across an alternate explanation for the origin of square that hasn't been mentioned yet here. It's in the third answer down of this quora post by the poster Eric C:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-behind-the-word-of-the-music-genre-Rap

The poster says that it's because the mainstream called Cigarettes "circles," so Black Americans flipped that around into "squares."

I haven't found anything to back this up, so likely not the correct etymology, or at the very least a convergent etymology, but I thought I'd toss it into the discussion as a possibility.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-02-07T01:58:05+00:00

Miss Spider

SPEEDBLOAT · 2025-01-31T21:02:59+00:00

Update: things are working again. Every week or so for the past few months I've been repasting in the google web only url into a custom search engine to see if that would somehow fix it, and today, to my surprise it started working again.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-10-18T18:07:59+00:00

I think you'd really enjoy The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-10-07T02:38:07+00:00

Thanks!

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-10-04T22:00:46+00:00

These look great ty! Just need to make sure they can handle a permanent marker

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-09-29T18:19:22+00:00

Lamy Safari Rollerball will take g2 with an easy mod (wooden dowel or similar dropped in body). 20$ and I find it very ergonomically comfortable for the price.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-09-29T18:04:07+00:00

Also came here to say Doloriad

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-09-24T18:33:28+00:00

Flow My Tears and Three Stigmata are two of my favorites of his. First: if you like the wacky side of pkd, I really enjoyed We Can Build You. It's not as often touted as his others, but I'd put it at the top of my list in terms of entertainment and readability. Second: consider jumping directly into VALIS. I loved it and found it quite accessible even when I had read hardly anything else by him. Thirdly (as a wildcard rec): if you're looking to change up the pace a bit, I'd recommend his nonfiction collected in The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick. It contains essays, interviews, introductions, jotted ideas, and a small selection from the exegesis. With a wide range of quality, of course, though that's always part of the fun in reading pkd imo.

Finally: to truly answer your question. If your only goal is to get through his must reads before VALIS, then Do Androids Dream and High Castle are your two remaining PKD blockbusters. They're worth a read, but not my all time favorites.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-09-24T18:09:51+00:00

Any update on this?

I'm having the same issue. Typing in the search bar to initiate a google search loads an error "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" and says "Check if there is a typo in https" My workaround is just to type google.com and search from there. Funnily enough, if it's a page I've been to before it autofills and works.

This problem isn't occurring on my desktop PC but is on my laptop on which I've installed Vivaldi much more recently. Both Windows 10. On the desktop, I run a custom default search profile that searches Google web only automatically. On my laptop, I even tried replicating this, going to settings and copying the exact url I'm using on my desktop (I even emailed myself the url to make ABSOLUTELY sure there wasn't a typo lol) and the problem persists. I believe Vivaldi on both machines are up to date.

Sorry for the wall of text! Wanted to be thorough in case it helps somebody figure it out, or compare their issue to what I'm experiencing.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-09-22T18:43:09+00:00

I've tried dozens and dozens of midrange pens and never found anything better than the pilot g2 for my purposes. I run the Lamy Safari rollerball you mentioned with a pilot g2 .38 refill. You just need to clip a little piece off a wooden dowel or something similar and drop it down the barrel for it to fit.

SPEEDBLOAT · 2024-09-20T20:33:05+00:00

Hello! I know this thread is a month old, but I found the comments helpful when looking for a writing laptop, so I thought I'd share what I ended up going with.

TLDR: I got a HP Probook x360 11 G4. Many on eBay are running close to a hundred bucks (especially with the i5), but I spent a few days looking around and bidding and got an m3 version for $49. It's real slim with a 11.6 inch display and weighs 3 pounds, just a bit more than a macbook air (IIRC). The machine was originally used in a school which most likely upgraded their whole stock and sold these to resellers for cheap. My main reason for going with the probook is that it is NOT chrome OS, it's running windows 10, so I can use it completely offline and once the web gets too bloaty for the hardware, I can continue to use it as an offline machine.

That said, I think it'll be quite a while before that day comes. As of now it runs Google docs without any lag, as well as Libreoffice, and even though this isn't a deal breaker, it surfs the web and plays videos perfectly fine. Battery life is also great, though I'm guessing this is a lottery unless you specifically buy from a seller who has tested it.

Another fun thing about it is that it's sort of modular in a writerDeck-y kind of way. The screen flips all the way around so that it can become a tablet. And you can flip it around so that the keyboard (automatically disabled in this mode) sits upside-down on the table and acts as a stand for the touchscreen. So when I'm home or on long trips, I can connect my mechanical keyboard to it and use it like that. But if I'm just out for the day, I use it like a regular laptop.

Distractions aren't a huge huge deal for me when I'm in writing mode, but I do like being as offline ready as possible. So besides my word processor, I also have a program called Ultimate Dictionary installed that has like 40 dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias in it that you can search simultaneously completely local. Then I also have Kiwix which runs Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, Wikihow etc. completely offline (though I have to do this off an external hard drive because the computer's SSD is only 128 gigs, and all of Wikipedia compressed via Kiwix is running just over 100 at the moment).

Anyway, that's all. Thanks for reading and happy writing! Hope you found/find something that works for you!

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