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Musical Interlude

I was in Seattle Monday and Tuesday, in town to see the final show of the King Crimson Elements tour. Tickets went on sale + more

Let me show you some letterheads

Letterheads, we make them all the time here at helveticka. However, I think if you asked a random 20-something (i.e. + more

Tuesday Miscellany

From Mad no. 154 (October 1972): “The Mad Guide to Political Types.” The terrifying tale of The Hound of Mons has + more

Analysis

There’s a quiz over at pbs.org that purports to determine what font you are. It’s a multiple-choice thing with really dumb answers + more

Winter Is Coming

On September 16, 1805—209 years ago today—the Lewis and Clark expedition was crossing the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains, somewhere + more

Happy Birthday, Bouten

Bouten Construction Company turns 70 this year, and last week they invited a couple hundred of their closest friends to the Spokane Convention Center’s + more

The Week that Was: September 5 Edition

The headline says it all: “Underwear-stealing ghosts made my life hell.” The best line of the story, though? “I thought + more

(yawn)

I guess football season is starting? Like…tonight? And the Seahawks are somehow involved? I’ll admit it: I just don’t find it + more

helveticka endorses…

“All work and no play,” wrote Jack Torrance (over and over and over again), “makes Jack a dull boy.” So do + more

Labor Day Weekend Miscellany

“I’ll bet there are lots of people who would try—and enjoy—squirrel brains if they thought nobody would find out.” I’ll + more

In a Night Forest

Nils Petter Molvær has been one of my favorite musicians for a while now, and Lucid Dream—a “one-of-a-kind new audiovisual installation” + more

Quote of the Day

“Since music is a language with some meaning, at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny + more

Spec These Spectacles

As a dude who wears glasses I would totally rock these Helvetica frames. Brought to you by Type, a line + more

Sobering Words on a Friday Afternoon

“The relationship between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley has historically been very cozy. The former head of Facebook security + more

Inventories of War

Photographer Thom Atkinson has documented British soldiers’ kit over the last millennium, from the Battle of Hastings (1066) to Helmland + more

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