#letts

* Filofax deserve a footnote. In the 1980s and 1990s the Filofax 'personal organiser' swept large swathes of the world with its chunky leather ring-bound folders and loose-leaf inserts, including not just diary pages, address lists and note pages but maps of metro systems, travel planners and business expenses. The Filofax was a classic yuppie accessory – potentially disastrous for those who opted not just to organise their whole life in its pages but to add plastic holders for their credit cards (a feature added at the request of Diane Keaton). The idea dated back to a 1910 product called Lefax, designed for power plant engineers in Philadelphia, and was used by engineers for many decades, as well as by the army (the Filofax archives show their product on an early military expedition to Everest). In its 1980s incarnation, Filofax info pages (sold individually) recalled the almanacs of the old table-books. Its core market of professionals, inevitably, transitioned to digital devices, but the Filofax has found a new audience among a generation of journal-keepers who treat it more like a scrapbook.

I’m going away for a while, and in light of a lack of content, I thought I’d share some memes I’ve made for and with friends over the past few months!

These are all tracings for quick and obvious meme recognition!! Sometimes its fun to just draw nonsense!!

Bonus: Muppets!!

"Hey, I'm Jasper, known mostly by the name Letts. Apparently I'm grouchy, but I don't think I am.

I sleep 3 hours a day, drink my body weight in hot bean juice whilst cuddling my dog and look at pictures of my fiance simply to survive the horrors of the deadline™"

The struggle for the Soviet Congress

On September 21 [October 4 on the modern calendar], at the close of the Democratic Conference, the Petrograd Soviet raised its voice for the prompt calling of a congress of the soviets. A resolution in this sense was adopted upon the report of Trotsky and a guest from Moscow, Bukharin, formally based on the necessity of getting ready for “a new wave of counter-revolution.” Their plan for a…