I like to make a dumb little post of my date stamp on January 1. My friend Deb commented, “When I turned to the fresh clean rubber 2026 yesterday morning, I thought, ‘happy new date stamp year to all who celebrate!’ and thought of you.” I am very happy to be thought of for such things, and think we should make this a thing from now on.
Today’s newsletter was about date stamps. Don’t miss the comments, which included this lovely short documentary about Casey Rubber Stamps in NYC:
This great idea for keeping to-do lists:
Here's my Date Stamp setup! I laser-cut a box to hold 3×5 cards in 2 sections: new and used. Each day I pull out a new card, stamp the date, write my to-do list, and then put it in the "used" section the next day.
If I can't fit my list on here, that's too much to do in a day! pic.twitter.com/RQPBaJzkkN
— Kathryn Marinaro (@kathrynmarinaro) November 9, 2021
And The Four Horsemen in Brooklyn (opened by one of my favorite musicians, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem) where they date stamp the menu:
I love this little nascent community we’ve got happening over there. I hope you will join us and subscribe!
Here is a date stamp somebody gave me on book tour last year. It only ran up until |2|0|1|9|, but then I got the idea to razor-blade the middle “|0|1|” out of the year band, leaving the first and last digits. So now I can stamp into the year ’29… How often does one so easily add a decade to an object’s life?
What is it about fixing small things when the big things are broken? What is it about solving tiny problems when faced with problems that seem unsolvable?
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