We like to use national and world holidays to highlight items in our museum for our videos. Sometimes we really stretch the purpose of the “holiday” to fit a topic that is unrelated. Today is one of those days because May 22nd is World Goth Day!
For today, Howard letterpress printed the word “Gothic” while discussing the Gothic style of fonts, which can also be referred to as Grotesque or San Serif. The font used is Franklin Gothic 90 point font, which is the largest metal type we have in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.
Tank: Who would you kill out of the four of us David?
David: Milo, easily.
Milo: What the fuck, man.
David: Well, Ash would be too easy, he’d probably be into it.
Asher, now standing in the doorway: What the fuck, man!
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Welcome to my Wolf Boys Headcanons! This includes David, Milo, Asher and Tank/Darlin’.
- Asher and Tank used to practise kissing together in high school.
- > Milo walked in on them once and very quickly decided it was none of his business.
- David really likes the Terminator movies and used to have a poster as a kid that he’d gotten from Gabe -> who had gotten the poster when the first movie came out. Now he has the poster rolled up in a box of keepsakes.
- > Asher sometimes teases David about his leather jackets because of his early obsession with the movies.
- Asher and Milo have had Star Trek versus Star Wars arguments and Milo is pro Star Wars just to fuck with Ash.
- All four of them had nerf gun fights when they were kids along with some of the other pack members.
- > Asher has swallowed one of the nerf bullets. Don’t ask him how he did it, even he doesn’t know. Although he swears he remembers the taste of blue and orange plastic.
- > David shot Tank in the eye by accident and did not talk to them for like a week because he couldn’t build up the courage to apologise. Milo and Ash found it hilarious.
- Asher starts sporadic games of truth or dare when he’s bored, and somehow his truths are always worse than his dares.
- > During one of these games David dared Asher to climb a tree in his wolf form, as a joke. Asher did not take it as a joke. He fell from said tree and broke his arm.
- Ash and Milo got their ears pierced together. Originally Ash had convinced Milo to pierce his ear for him, but when it eventually got infected Marie banned any future attempts at unlicensed piercing.
- It took a bit longer for Tank and Milo to become friends again after Tank returned to the pack. Although, a quick jab at Amanda and Christin from Milo got the two talking and joking together like they used to.
- Milo beats everyone at Mario Kart and that’s why they never play it.
- > David mains as Bowser (a shock to no one), Asher plays as either Rosalina or Baby Luigi, Milo’s a Shy Guy man, and Tank plays as Yoshi.
May 20th is World Bee Day! This day reminds us of the value of bees, especially as pollinators. Considering Sacramento’s longest running newspaper is The Sacramento Bee, we couldn’t pass this day up.
For today, Howard discussed why The Sacramento Bee calls itself The Bee. Shown at the beginning of the video is the mosaic from the entrance and facade of a previous Sacramento Bee building that was demolished in 1956. Howard also letterpress printed an image of a busy bee from an electrotype, made about 130 years ago, from the Lewis Winter Collection. The text below the print of a cast iron stove and oven was typeset in 24 point Engravers Old English and reads, “World Bee Day.”
Lewis Winter was a woodcut artist and engraver who had his business at 627 J Street in Sacramento from 1888 to 1910. Many of the cuts in his collection at our museum are of items that would have been featured in newspapers and magazines in the 1890s. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.