Hope for the disorganized-in-denial is now available at Fully Booked. Moleskine has released many diary flavors, from weekly vertical to one day at a time to a special edition with an Italian patent leather cover. (Consumer insight: Shiny cover just might be more visible inside bag stuffed with year-old receipts, three kinds of lip balm …
Month: October 2008
Back when our only neighbors were grass, and the backyard wasn’t the escape route of choice for the preteen shabu-addled posse, I spent afternoons stalking dragonflies. We called them “tutubing karayom,” needle dragonflies. Like needles, they were hard to see. And like needles, the other end could sting. Capturing ideas requires two things I learned …
Miss Celeste is 73 and stands like a 16-year old ballerina at a barre. When she demonstrated how a child with hyperactivity banged on her giant drum until he calmed down, she knelt on the floor and flailed her arms like Martha Graham, silver hair blurring into a halo. She played Tonight, Tonight from West …
They always warn you to take precautions when you install betas, but foolhardy (and lazy) girl that I am, I rarely do. Moving from the third Flock 2 beta to the official release, I lost my entire Accounts & Services sidebar. There was nothing to click, but I clicked anyway – hoping a link or …
Nothing is showing up in my Flock 2.0 accounts and services sidebar. Nothing. Short of removing all the data in Library/Application Support, I am uncertain of what to do next. This geek is stumped.
I change bags. Many women do. I leave things inside bags I don’t use for weeks. Many women do. I found a Sterling fountain pen in red mottled hard rubber with an extraordinarily flexible nib at the bottom of a bag I had not paid attention to in months. If only for this, I am …
I am a sucker for notebooks with leather covers. Add the Rhodia brand name and I am a sucker lining up at the counter. The Rhodia ePure comes in orange and black. The leather strip that binds it closed is not glued inside, so do not yank. The paper is a cream-tinged white. It seems …
Joel and I take you on a tour of Greenbelt Park. This is literally a rambling conversation. It has nothing about pens.
It opens with a quote from Galactus. It has shoutouts to Dejah Thoris, ringwraiths and the Bene Gesserit. It has a man without a face (Sapphire and Steel? Dr. Doom?). Its title leaves you in no doubt the protagonist dies. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: the book I thought I would never finish, …
This time, it’s two dip pens, folded tissue and a blatant disregard for ink stains.