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I must not have done much of much this month because flipping through my trusty Hibino, nothing seems to jump out besides celebrating my brother's birthday and bidding my folks farewell for their move to Seattle.
For my brother's birthday I made him a painting of celebrated director and all around handsome fella, David Lynch and a little SD card containing 500000000 years button full series (yt only has the first three episodes, which are still great, and the rest are on prime). Both subjects have been ongoing obsessions of mine for the past few months. And while I can't offer you a painting, I can offer you this ASCII portrait for you to print out at home (png version). A few months ago, I posted a link to the auction site for David Lynch's estate, a must-scroll for any fan of his. Even though it's long since closed, looking at some of his things brings me little hits of joy.
As for the other item on the docket, you heard that right, mama and papa tooth have moved on to the Pacific Northwest. My dad's been working for Amazon AWS and they recently ~~suggested~~ forced all their employees to return to office, then relocated a lot of them in what I believe was an effort to induce resignations rather than announce official lay-offs. But whatdoIknow? They seem to be enjoying it so far. They're super cute together still. For their last night in town, I took them out to their favorite cartel-coded restaurant, La Sinaloense.
My own work has been good and steady, made a lot of bucks this month which Im willing to convert to dumb shit delivered to my door. While much of said shit has, is, and always will be more stationery, I doubt any of it will be coming from ZARA's new line, which I bitched about thoroughly in my latest post to substack.

Next month there will be much more to report as there have already been travels and tribulations. Until then, EVERYONE, HAVE A GREAT DAY.

«8/25 Introduction»

Another fun, fat and funky, fruitful month for humantooth. First off thank you all for 500k page views, I still cant believe that they all aren't just me checking to see if my edits took. In a world where tiktok videos break 1m views in 24hrs, I dont take the slow climb to half of that in a few years for granted. Looking at my dumb little website is a genuine conscious effort as neocities doesn't have an algorithm or a to-go menu. To celebrate I got myself a new url, which I actually forgot about until flipping through my Hibino trying to remind myself what I did this month.

Visitor K

Got a visit from my very best friend Katrina, who drove out from New Mexico, so that was a delight. In preparation for her visit, and to meet the minimum for free shipping on Jet Pens, I ordered her a Masuya Monokaki, which I would come to find has a long and sordid history. Ok just a long history.

I knew the cover was sourced from an Edo period washi maker, and wanted to make note of the name studio because she likes that kind of stuff (i.e. paper-making; she's a bookbinder). Trying to find that name led me to many open tabs, google-translations and a whole entry in my stationery specific blog, stationeryspecific.substack.com.

As for her visit, it was quick, since I caught her on the tail end of a lower-state regional road trip, but we got to exchange gifts (she made me some LOVELY boxes to keep my magazines in using her bookbinding skills), chit and chat and do some tables and chairs business at whole foods like we did as kids, except this time we have money to pay for everything we ate.

Nesbitt Country News

There's this realtor in the neighborhood I live in who mails us these fliers and calendars to keep her present in our minds should any of us that own homes ever wish to sell, and often they will include a cartoon illustration of the neighborhood with the caption THIS IS NESBITT COUNTRY. So its become a bizarre running joke that we are all citizens of Nesbitt Country and she is our queen.

Every year the citizens of Nesbitt Country participate in a massive multi-family neighborhood garage sale (an MMFNG, if you will) and she drives around on her little golf cart bequeathing her subjects with Krispy Kreme donuts. It's hell.

These garage sales are pure mania. They start at seven (in the actual morning) and the second the garage comes up you dont get a chance to set up because immediately folks are walking up and asking how much this is? And the tide doesn't stop until about 10 or 11 but by that time it feels like three days have past and I can only liken it to time spent on shrooms or LSD.

This being our third year, and the previous year giving me PTSD where I was shouting out prices in my dreams, I was in the right mind to make the executive decision to not begin until 8am. While we did sell less, we made up for it in reducing stress. It was actually kind of fun. And I was able to offload art supplies and minis to 14 and 12 year old girls respectively that were thrilled beyond measure. So that felt good.

A couple weeks later I would learn how truly boring my house is when the power was shut off for scheduled something or other. It started before I could make coffee -which is when I learned that actually, my stove does need electricity to boil water- and was slated to end at 2:30pm but went past that until 4:00pm. I think I painted? and swatched some new inks? I certainly didn't read since I was able to make a mobile hot spot from my phone to stream true crime nonsense on my ipad.

Ive been struggling with reading lately, not like with putting together words into letters, but the act. Its a guilt I feel because I have so many freaking books and have added more since comiccon.

Inks of the month

Miscellany

We have also upgraded our hardware at HumanTooth farms. well, not sure if "upgraded" is the right word but I got a new tech thing. A stinking cute pink laptop I found on Amazon for $180USD. Took me awhile but I was able to turn it into a halfway decent machine once I terminated all these inane update processes that were constantly running and skull-fucking the CPU. I mostly got it to do L33t HaX0R shit with my M5 Cardputer and finally play HYLICS, neither of which I was able to do as a macOS girlie. Come to find that since the last time I made a foray into Michaelsoft Binbows, they've drummed up some decent ways to customize that awful awful interface.

and in Boone news, because I know none of y'all care, this month was absolutely BLESSED. For over a year now we have been looking forward to Boone v Boone, where Sarah would maker her argument for why she believed she was still entitled to $1,000 per month alimony payments while SEVRVING LIFE IN PRISON.

Since interest in the case has dwindled to loonies like me and it was pretty clear that media wasn't going to be there to record the way they did for her criminal case. A couple youtubers made their way down to florida to witness it in person and report back the exact degree how far off the rails she went. I, however, realized I had access to the feed since I had requested it back in May for the pretrial conference, and the links and dial-in details appeared to be used throughout the year (not on a case-by-case basis). I kept this to myself, figured out how to do screen recordings with audio on my computato, figured out how to record calls on my phone as back up (Thanks, Gemini!) and set my alarm on the morning of the trial and logged in through both. It. was. glorious. Not only was Sarah operating at peak craziness, her ex, once accommodating and kind, did a magical girl transformation into Sailor Grey Rock, delivering biting one-liners during cross examination. I was a bit nervous on getting it all since the trial was earmarked for three hours and ran closer to four, so you can imagine, these were MASSIVE files. After leaking the recordings to a few youtubers and getting shout-outs in turn, I went through and digitally glued them all together, removing any PII and name of the minor child and to the joy of the r/SarahBooneContinued subreddit, finally uploaded the whole kit and caboodle to the Internet Archive. Link below via the archive.org logo, along with links to my first ever font and a painting I did during the blackout.

Spoils of July'25

1. San Diego ComicCon Haul
- Click to explore

- Yes, I snuck in again. I packed in a few goodies into this year's haul post including some interviews and free online versions. I'm thinking of scanning in the vintage comics I snagged and uploading them to archive.org, since I was able to find one there.
Click here to see last year's haul.

2. FREE GUIDE
- yt-dlp-guide-intro.html

- Complete walkthrough on downloading videos from youtube (and thousands of other sites), for free, on a Mac, with subtitles embedded (as in the case of anime or foreign language videos where downloading the video file itself isn't enough) using command-line prompts

3. I became an Amazon Vine Reviewer
- You ever be looking at Amazon reviews and see "Product reviewed by Amazon Vine Customer" and wonder how these fools are getting free stuff from Amazon? now I am fools getting free stuff from Amazon! Im not sure what triggered it but I got an invitation and now I'm allotted up to three free things a day from a nega-Amazon portal full of crappy shit. Apparently you don't get the good stuff like electronics and shit until you reach Gold status, which requires 80 product reviews within a certain trial period and a few other metrics. At Gold there is no price cap on the products you can request, for regular shmegular Vine all the products are worth $100 or less. So far I've reviewed 35 items. The reason its a laugh now cry later situation is because its easy to forget that you might have to pay taxes on all the products they give you, even if they are free, ~~assuming youre the kind of person that reports your taxes consistently and honestly~~.

4. The SBU Library
- The obsession continues. Big month in the SarahBoone-iverse. Used my Orange County Court account to lead a completely unhinged 33-page PreTrial thing written by Sarah, which the subreddit tore to shreds and a bunch of people would go on to cover, earning me not one but two shout-outs from my favorite Boone-tent creator. Because I hosted the pdf on my neocities account, I thought I might as well share it explicitly, in case any of y'all were curious. I think if you keep in mind that it's meant to be an official court document, you will begin to understand why Sarah Boone has become a legal lolcow. You will also find one of her finest motions filed last year where she the status of her holiday greeting cards are put on the public record with inordinate rage.
Mind you, none of these have to do with her murder case. These are the on-going family court filings where she is trying to compel her ex-husband to continue with alimony* and child support payments ‡ while she is serves her life sentence.

LYING-motion.pdf	originally handwritten, bold text is used to indicate when phrases were underlined more than once. 3pgs.
Pretrial Compliance.pdf	This is what happens when the worlds worst Karen gets sentenced to life in prison. 33pgs.

* which she calculates to be $67,000, to be paid in $300 installments for the next 18 years, even though it was set to expire in April of 2025
‡ yes. child support payments.

5. Dicking around with the M5 Cardputer

Having fun with this thirty-dollar doo-hickey and teaching myself Arduino programming in the process. Comes with an internet radio amongst other apps and a community of multi-hatted hackers making all manner of destructive tools for it. And of course it runs DOOM.

border img made with Broider.

humanTooth-type-v.1.ttf

After long last, I am thrilled to report I have been able to cross an item off my perpetual to-do list:
~~Make my own font~~.

Granted, I kind of used a cheat code to get there, but that doesn't negate the fact that this font did not exist before, and now it does. Yes, it's a little rough around the edges and hard to read, but so am I. In case you can't tell- it's meant to be a Display font, rather than used for body text.

I submitted it to Fontesk.com, a site where I have wasted many an hour gathering fonts for the second coming of Christ, and was so fucking jazzed to see that they accepted it! As of this writing it is currently sitting on their front page, which left me cheering in my chair.
If you would like to download it and use it yourself, I have given it Public Domain license, meaning its free to use for commercial, personal, and spiritual projects.

Downloads:
☞ Just the .ttf file, thanks.
→ FULL PACKAGE ←
(Includes: .otf, .ttf, .woff, .woff2, license)

AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvXxYyZz!?0123456789:;[]{}\/~+=-_

JeJune

did you ever play JeJune?
aka the Jejune institute?
Its too much to explain but if you've ever seen the Jason
Segal show Dispatches from Elsewhere, its like that but
without the magical mary sue bitch.
I was lucky enough to have played a few rounds with my
brother or friends that came in from out of town, without
knowing what it was and would become.
I just thought it was one of those things that makes
san francisco "neat"
but now its gone and so is most else that supported that
same adjective.

but that was then and this is now,
so lets talk about last month.

This June was a pretty good one!
To no surprise most of my life unfolded online.

If you've ever happened upon my /now page*, you might have cottoned on to the fact
that i like to list the type of content im particularly keen on atm but one overarching content
category that has never left, is Sarah Boone-tent
*if you havent you would be forgiven as its hard to find and, like the little debbie ice cream line is neater in concept
than in practice

If you dont know who sarah boone is, here is the long and the short of it:

‣ Our Sarah, an alcoholic-in-denial, kills her boyfriend Jorge by zipping him in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate.
‣ She finds him the next morning and calls 911 while clearly still hung over.
‣ The couple had shared a phone which she gladly gave over to detectives NOT REMEMBERING that she had
recorded video of herself taunting and torturing Jorge while he begged to be let out.
‣ Her interrogation was so manic, panicked, and full of narcissistic quips that it became an instant true crime classic.
~~ "I dont think you all understand who I am, I am an outstanding mother to my son, I'm a straight-A student*, I excel at everything."
‣ *She was 42 at the time
‣ After she was arrested she began running through court-appointed attorneys, who would withdraw
due to "irreconcilable differences", meaning, she was insufferable.
‣ As she's going through attorneys she's also writing long and absurd, unhinged handwritten letters to the judge about how dissatisfied she was
with her attorneys and eventually the judge himself, that read as "complaints to the manager" meets "highschool student trying to reach the word count".
‣ She writes a 58-page letter complaining about her EIGHTH attorney at which point the judge rules she has
waived her right to court appointed counsel through her behavior and has to represent herself.
‣ A lawyer would eventually come to represent her and regret doing so.
‣ The trial. The trial was a lot. For the state's rebuttal they just played videos from Sarah's phone and read out her texts. No witnesses called.
‣ Sarah gets sentenced to life in prison.
‣ What happened after that would take too long to type.

Needless to say there was always a ton of content coming out keeping folks updated on miss Sarah Boone.
Its how I was introduced to trial watch streams.

Parallel to her criminal case was a civil case between her and her ex-husband. Sarah had been living off of her $1,000 per month alimony and the $100 she got in child support payments since she was supposed to have her son for four days out of the week to her husband's 3 (this was hardly ever the case, as she was usually too drunk to pick him up). While Sarah was incarcerated she expected those payments to continue and be deposited into her commissary account so she could buy honeybuns and butterfingers. She was FURIOUS when her ex tried to adjust the terms of her alimony, we know this because she started writing letters to the judge of that case too.

Thing is, r/SarahBooneCase, hub for all things Boone on reddit, did not allow posts pertaining to the family court case once the criminal trial had ended. Which goes back to what I did this month. I started r/SarahBooneContinued. I found a good 500+ folks that are just as nosy as I am who have joined me in pouring over every bit of data dumb bitch Boone generates, through her jailhouse text messages, messed up motions and letters to the court. If you think nothing productive can come of this I would invite you to see my upcoming essay on Sarah Boone's Pro Se Motions and Universal Basic Income as proposed in Jared Lanier's Who Owns the Future.

And if I wasn't living in my computer enough, I also started a stationery specific substack as a vessel for my stationery related fixation. You can find that at https://stationeryspecific.substack.com

I only have two posts (one on the discontinued Pilot Multiball and the other rounding up niche industry-oriented stationery finds) and a technical third I used to promote over on r/fountainpens where I gave away a free stamp template with instructions on how to get it made.

The rest of the month was spent ordering junk on the internet, making gifts, and working towards a promotion at work so I can order even more junk on the internet. The vicious circle that never ends. Hakuna Matata. hasta mañana.

May was marked with new acquisitions, soft work and partial dedication. Meaning i bought a lot of shit online and did my job. You may have noticed that im in the habit of collecting colors this year. Idk if thats the right phrasing. it's what im wasting my money on. ink and paint. club. This month's standouts were shade-splitting handmade watercolors from Dusty Bee on Etsy and a range of draw-joppers from Kitty Ink Pot, the Orient's best kept secret. These inks are shifty and feel almost alive, changing color entirely depending on paper type [test]. Getting them to my room in [REDACTED] was a triumph of globalization as the only supplier i could find online was Soe & Soe in Australia. Shipping was twenty american bucks but I was riding one of those sad on myself for missing the family trip to Asia waves so I pressed the fuck-it button, aka 'PLACE ORDER'.

(Click to enlarge)

I have actually been using them too, you can see Rustic Copper, an almost impossible simultaneous navy and orange-red, in the ears of this Xolo I painted per Clark's request. Another treat I received as compensation for missing the trip was this glorious gift from my brother and his wife:

THE LIMITED EDITION HONGKONG MCDONALDS MAH JONG SET

Jen and I had discovered it on IG back in January when it was released, dismayed to find that it was going for hundreds of dollars. They had tasked one of our least favorite cousins with two baby mamas in Hong Kong to buy it on their version of mercari while he was out there and fly it back to Taiwan where they picked it up and brought back for me here in [REDACTED].

They also facetimed me from the PLOTTER store in Taipei which turned out to be better stocked than the flagship in Tokyo. We all geeked out together on their luxury paper goods. Brother's holy grail item is the whiteboard insert which had a brief and glorious existence at a pop-up event in possibly Chicago.

He would have to settle for a frankenstein solution, which would prompt me to lend my recently acquired whiteboard notebook and dry/wet erase marker & pen knowledge, distilled into the Whiteboard Report. My passion for paper and my penchant for sharing have inspired me to start a stationery specific substack, where I plan to sink many hours once i get past merely parking my preferred username.

Did you know you can order custom stamps? the ka-thunking self inking kind? for like, 10 bucks? Every night when I write down what I did, I like to make note of what pen/ink I'm using. I have a few mini stamps that look like pens and others that look like ink. I saw an Eric Small Things stamp that seemed perfectly catered to that purpose but come to find that it's sold out and $30 bucks when it wasn't. Also come to find that Eric Small Things is a demigod in the Japanese side of journal world.

Currently reading:

PS: Can you spot the possum? i pass it nearly every day I walk the dog, its been sitting in the sun mummifying for over a year. I took a pic with my little thermal camera.

Hover to reveal.