when a daughter thinks of her dad for Summer & Jordan, Father’s Day
never done before figuring out a style telling the things that are important a lot of knowledge and style in the person that is so deeply appreciated the caring person they know through and through it’s a cool blue twilight at this typewriter on the street when a daughter thinks of her dad
[Eva L. Elasigue / ELE CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons]
I was in San Diego when typewriter poet Jeremy Brownlowe and I sat our typewriters next to each other on the sidewalk to type in tandem, and I was the one to handle this request from passersby.
and I know that reality reiterates its entirety eternally with me in it and all the love and pain that some part of me never forgets even as it moves ever onward and must see beauty and must feel everything or just wander lost still as itself regardless as myself reminded again and again forgetting as it suits the tired self is this body just a story? what is the brain, how is the enfolding done and the refolding where is the skin of the all what’s beneath it I know the always in the never I know forever
by Eva L. Elasigue / ele CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons
Cast yourself upon the ground, the forgiving ground, on the softest place I’ll be there with you It is not bad to be lowly atop the sinking, tickling moss eye to eye with tiny bluebells rubbing shoulders with mushrooms There is softness We are not unforgiven This body is good The sun kisses and kisses and kisses The moisture from the light rain turns to steam Picking out a gentle prickle that plucks a chuckle Laying out full length Like me, the moss loves love it is allowed and encouraged The eagle flying under the day moon is also here above the rich breath of trees It’s not yet the season for the dragonfly dance, but there are new buds We can eat them and be fed by this day
by ele / Eva L. Elasigue CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons
This was a beautiful open mic night on 2/21/22 in the recently-expanded Portland, OR art collective space known as The Haven. Along with my reading on the mic, I hosted my Hermes 3000 for people to add things to a page.
Edited transcript:
@ The Haven PDX art collective Open Mic night 2/22
Collaborative page: Contribute anything! facilitated by Eva L. Elasigue
my chaos is my offering… a sacrifice for transmutation^ the universe says hello. I’m so confused! glass apples beating fastgood tidings to all baby garfunkles, hobgobbles, love urself poopbucket and all I am conscious and stuck in this typewriter, help pull yourself up and we can help
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Verbatim transcript:
@ The Haven PDX art collective Open Mic night 2/22
Collaborative page: Contribute anything! facilitated by Eva L. Elasigue
my chaos is my offering… a sacrifice for transmutation^ the universe says hello. I,m so confused! gl ss a ples beating fastgood idings to all baby garfunkles,hobgobbles, love urself poopbucket andall I am conscious and stuck in this typewriter, help pull yourself up and we can help
Here’s the second page from that great Type, Tea & Chocolate late hours room party. Someone bestowed me with genuine vintage WorldCon letterhead at this point, and we put it to historical use. For reference, we’re at WorldCon 79 here, so this paper is older than me.
Edited transcription:
… from the Dealer’s Room freebie table at DisCon III ! 2021 [ the paper – ed. This was still in Room 333 ]
messages from outer and inner space: if — and only if — if we should see a better future — may this find you well, O Reason, Reader. echleiwen dech ech haerzen dech ech hunn dech gaer
May you have good fun with good friends, good health and a great year
a few parting words (?) ampi n he irelintswi ming throughtheflo ting dr msembes on the wind
Despite or because we know it’s not possible wonders anyway John Hertz 18 Dec 21 2:20am
– Verbatim transcription:
… from the Dealer’s Room freebie table at DisCon III ! 2021 [ the paper – ed. This was still in Room 333 ]
messages from outer and inner space: if — and only if — if we should see a better future — may this find you well, O Reason, Reader. echleiwen dech ech haerzen dech ech hunn dech gaer
May you hve good fun with good friendws, good health and a great yoear
a few parting words (?) ampi n he irelintswi ming throughtheflo ting dr msembes on the wind
Despite or because we know it’s not possible wonders anyway John Hertz 18 Dec 21 2:20am
This page was created on my Hermes 3000 at the Type, Tea & Chocolate late hours room 333 party at DisCon II, WorldCon December 2021, held in Washington D.C. at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
Edited transcript:
DisCon III 2021 ! add what you like to this sheet of paper request assistance if inexperienced with a typewriter
anything. hello world Tom Hanks likes TYPEWRITERS rolling the page, what is time…. YYUR YYUB ICUR YY4ME can I even remember how to keep from jamming the keys Life doesn’t end at 30. My 9 yr old loves, LOVES typewriters…. really Hi. We typewriters love him, too. But we’re not allowed to say so. I wrote my college application essays using one of these. Seven separate sets Argh scales rose from the water, wetly overlapping in an intricate pattern This is a test. This is a test of the emergency broadcast system one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them Yoghurt is such a strange fooooood. just look at it… does this work / where is the space bar? Nevermind. Kitten hello oh no oh no I got spoiled by an electric – thought the ribbon was drying and yet. AND YET. this is just so much more satisfying…. [shield the world is outcast(?)] Lemon ginger chocolate is a surreal experience.
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Verbatim transcript:
DisCon III 2021 !
add what you like to this sheet of paper request assistance if inexperienced with a typewriter.
anything hello world Tom Hanks likres TYPEWRITERS ro lig the pag, what is time…. YYUR YYUB ICUR YY4ME can I evenrmebe how tokeepfrojammig t ekeys Life doe n’t end at 30. My 9 yr old loves, LOVES typewriters…. really Hi. We typewriters love him, too. But we;re not allowed to say so. I wrote my college application essays usingone of these. Seven separate sets Arghscales rose from thewater, wetly overlapping in an intricate pattern This is a test. This is a test of the emergency broadcast system o ne ring to rule hem all, one ring to find them oghut is such a strange fooooood. ju t look t it… oesthiswork/whe eistespacebar? Nevemind. K itten hello hoh no oh no i gotspoioled by an electric — though the ribbon was drying and yet. AND YET. this is just so much more satisfying…. Lemon ginger chocolate is a surreal experience.
This happened in November 2021, when I was given some some space to host my typewriter in a side meeting room at OryCon Portland. A poetic footnote, contributed by others.
Edited transcript:
ORYCON 42!
just add anything . . . still here … you lit the fire in me yes nigh is te(a)
Verbatim transcript:
ORYCON 42! just add anything . . . still here … you lit thefire inme yes nigh is te(a)
[This is an abstract of a fictional paper in database on some of the principles behind Star Trek’s transporter; a flash fanfic.]
Title: Microhole Quantum Displacement of the Transporter
Author: Eva L. Elasigue
Abstract: Rather than create one large displacement field, which we have not achieved to this day, instead the transporter is made possible by a 5D fluid grid of quantum entanglement microholes. With the 4th dimension being time, the 5th dimension is intention – namely target, subject, and destination (using 5th-D mechaneurolinguistic programming as defined in the notorious seminal work). The fluid grid enmeshment is a paint-by-numbers energetically living algorithm which communicates firstly with the nervous system, gaining biophysical agreement and certainty of orientation, another 5D variable element.
((CC-BY 4.0 Eva L. Elasigue))
Beta reader #1: Brent Spiner, Data of The Next Generation at San Diego Comic Con 2021 Special Edition
Brent decided to keep it! For fun, these were attached:
A picture with Melinda Snodgrass, Star Trek writer of award-winning Data episode “Measure of a Man.” At her recent book release at Jean Cocteau Theater in Santa Fe NM, December 2019
A mini-print of this new poster art by Brennan Wagner of DC, Grendel, etc.
I set up a typewriter table, buddied with artist Aura Lunae at this elegant night of music and art:
Here we are! I sold some zine broadsheets of my new-this-year Cabaret Poem, and my bespoke experiment was titled Soul of the Mask (pose for poetry). People could pose for me their masquerade persona, and I typed them a single poetic line to capture the energy of the moment.
Following, some of the poetry embodied on this night:
Author Eva Lisa Elasigue 