{"id":38739,"date":"2021-07-28T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=38739"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:25:53","slug":"whats-in-my-cigar-box-josh-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-cigar-box-josh-glenn\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my cigar box? \u2014 Josh Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Glenn<\/strong>\u00a0is cofounder of the commercial semiotics agency SEMIOVOX and editor of the website\u00a0HILOBROW<\/a>. He is coauthor of the\u00a0UNBORED<\/a>\u00a0family activity guides, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS, and other books including\u00a0THE ADVENTURER\u2019S GLOSSARY<\/a>\u00a0and LOST OBJECTS (both forthcoming). Recently, he signed on as founding editor of MIT Press\u2019s\u00a0RADIUM AGE<\/a>\u00a0series of reissued proto-sf novels from the overlooked 1900\u20131935 era.<\/p>\n

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I work above a liquor store, and the nice folks who work there give me empty cigar boxes whenever I pass through.<\/p>\n

Most of my projects \u2014 UNBORED, PROJECT:OBJECT, etc. \u2014 have involved promotional stickers. Which tend to float around, getting dinged up and dusty, if you don\u2019t protect them. I lost the cards for the 1970s-era \u201cAC\/DC: The Exciting Electric Circuit Game<\/strong><\/a>\u201d long ago, but I love the bold red-and-black box, which I now use to store a selection of my promo stickers.<\/p>\n

Nobody gives or receives business cards, any longer \u2014 who even takes f2f meetings these days? But my own business cards are mementoes \u2014 they represent various jobs and phases of my life, from working at a dotcom in the \u201890s and the Boston Globe in the ’00s, to starting my semiotics agency. Plus cards for various short-lived projects, like when I was a handyman in grad school \u2014 I specialized in repairing rain gutters and broken window sash cords.I keep ’em safe in this vintage\u00a0Lucky Strikes cigarettes container<\/strong><\/a>. Condition: \u201cUsed.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

My friend Peggy Nelson helped me create embroidered \u201cmerit badge\u201d patches, for my website HILOBROW, some years back.\u00a0I keep a few remnants of this fun craft project in an embossed\u00a0Pac Man Ghost tin<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which I believe used to contain candy. I probably swiped it from my children.<\/p>\n

I used to collect coins when I was a kid \u2014 I don\u2019t any longer. But I still keep an eye out for wheat pennies (1909\u20131956), and marvel whenever they show up in my change. How have they stayed in circulation all these years? I return some of them to the wild; others I stash in a\u00a0DupliMAT typewriter ribbon tin<\/strong><\/a>. I love typewriter ribbon tins, and never miss a chance to snatch one up at a yard sale or thrift store. The second typewriter ribbon tin shown here contains ink cartridges for a fountain pen that I haven\u2019t used in a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s in my … ? issue #112<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38741,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739\/revisions\/38741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}