One of us is watching The Wire one episode a night instead of bingeing it, and it gets us talking about what went missing when shows stopped arriving once a week and everyone stopped watching the same thing at the same time. Maybe a PR firm manufactured some of that shared feeling. Either way, a group of friends can still get it back by watching a show together. Alien: Romulus gets called one of the best-executed soulless movies around, though we'd take soulless craft over soulless crap.
Then one of us reads from Bruno Munari's Design as Art, a short book from 1966 about making everyday objects with the care you'd give a painting. It leads to two words we lean on, provenance and quintessence: where an object has been, and how perfectly it is itself. One of us found a Hermes Baby typewriter for $25 at a historical society sale in an empty CVS, and at the checkout he was introduced to a woman who knew its story. It belonged to a photojournalist who documented World War II, and its lid is inscribed with Travel and Transport Incorporated, Omaha, Nebraska, the company he started after the war. An Olivetti Lettera 25 from an antique shop in Atlantic, Iowa, joins it, in a collection of about 17 typewriters that one of us means to edit down the way you'd try on clothes.
Mentioned in this episode: The Wire, Fede Álvarez's Alien: Romulus, Bruno Munari's Design as Art, the Hermes Baby, the Olivetti Lettera 25, John Boorman's Excalibur, Steve Jobs.
-Ai
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