A Challenge: Your own Knock!

So, I think anybody who may stumble across this blog will know, at least in passing, of the absolutely incredible hobby magazine of Knock! by the Merry Mushmen. 

I have all of the issues and am consistently delighted by it. It is simply an aesthetic pleasure to page through after a long day or simply when looking for inspiration. Some people find it too art-punky. 

And yet there are posts formative to my experience of blog-surfing that I miss. These may be posts from ancient dead blogs or a genius theory post from the start of a now entirely depraved blog. Things which you remember stumbling upon and have bookmarked, ideas which you still use, concepts which you still hold central to your thinking.

I have plenty of these I do not want to disappear into the realm of idle deletion or frank forgetfulness. I want to possess these posts as a personal act of preservation. The internet is fantastic as a library or as an indexing system, but it is absolutely terrible as a preservation medium - to that I would prefer to turn to clay or stone but we do not have printers for those mediums (at least none that are immediately accessible to me.)   

What I do have is paper and a printer. 

We easily acknowledge and then move on from the fact that the printing press was and still is an absolutely in-fucking-credible piece of technology. We should use it more, and learn to be more distinguishing with its use. 

So I think I have listed the basic elements of my challenge. Go forth, find those blog posts and think pieces and print them in the act of preservation of your Old-School Renaissance. I don't care how you bind them, or in what format you print them. I am using a lever-arch file and printing them whole from the blogs with headers and footers. Make a table of contents or organize it by number of letters in the first word. Draw, write, note on these printed posts. 

Just do it in the act of preservation. Make it so that a child in the future can find these pages, know why they have been printed, and then dive into what you loved about this niche-of-a-niche of a hobby. Make it so it can be donated to a historian or museum, and make it for yourself.  

This is obviously, a quite personal endeavor for those who do want to take up this challenge. I do not expect there to be tables of contents posted which list notable posts as a form of in-group signalling (in fact if you have all of Knock! why would you). This should be yours.  

Edit: I wrote this idly and with a great vision in mind - I now realise that I have made a mistake, and my eyes are too big for my stomach, and the blogs keep having links which have links which have links which have links and I need to see it all and tabs are increasing exponentially fuck.