| My blog | https://elliotjaystocks.com |
| My newsletter | https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter |
| My podcast | https://hellotypefriends.com |
Ever wondered why “was”, “am”, and “be” are such different words, despite expressing different tenses of the same verb, “to be”? @colingorrie goes deep in the latest issue of his linguistics newsletter (which is fast becoming one of my favourite weekly reads):
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-the-verb-to-be-is-so-irregular
En route to Belgium! 🇧🇪
Tonight, I’ll be in conversation with my good mate, the author-illustrator Paddy Donnelly, at Waterstones in Brussels. We’ll be celebrating the launch of Fine Specimens and chatting about good ol’ books in general.
Come along if you’re in town — it kicks off at 19:30, it’s free, and there’ll be beer!
https://www.waterstones.com/events/meet-the-author-fine-specimens/brussels-161495
Here, in video format, is a selection of pages from Fine Specimens. You can buy it from anywhere that sells books. Here are some shops (although the best one is your local bookseller):
(Also, a reminder that the next leg of the UK / EU book tour is tomorrow night at Waterstones in Brussels!)
Also, this will be stop #2 on the Fine Specimens book tour. If you want to follow along virtually via the medium of email, please sign up to my pop-up newsletter:
Next Wednesday, 1st April (this is not an April Fools!) I’ll be having a launch party for Fine Specimens at @Waterstones in beautiful Brussels.
The event kicks off at 19:30 and I’ll be in conversation with my good friend Paddy Donnelly. Come and join us! It’s totally free, but please do RSVP by emailing the lovely Waterstones folks at [email protected]
My awesome wife watched the video of me reciting foundry names and said it reminded her of this scene from Father Ted:
Apologies for the vertical format — I made this video to please the Instagram algorithm — but it took too bloody long to edit to *not* post it here, too.
If you’ve been curious to know which type foundries have their work in Fine Specimens, here’s me reading them all out, with their logos overlaid.
For folks looking to get (back) into blogging, or get a super-simple personal site up and running, Pagecord (created by @lylo, one of the founders of FreeAgent) looks interesting. It’s giving me 2010-ish vibes and I mean that entirely as a compliment.
The first issue of the book tour pop-up newsletter is going out tomorrow!
It covers Tuesday’s launch event in Bristol and some motivations behind the tour in general. Sign up here if you fancy following along:
