Once you’re a certain age, you can let yourself go. I have always wanted to be the crazy old lady in the loud batik caftan who frightens the neighborhood kids away with a walking stick and pronouncements of doom. But not yet. My mom scolds me for wearing shorts that hit above the knee. “You’re …
Month: December 2008
I only have two. I reviewed my Omas Milord Arco when it arrived. I thought I’d lost it, just two weeks ago, when it wasn’t in my bag or in any of my usual storage places. I couldn’t work. I couldn’t eat breakfast. The Mottishaw-modified pen turned out to be in my toiletries box. (No, …
Top 15 Albums, 2008. The soundtrack to an unbelievable year. 1. TV On the Radio, Dear Science 2. Bajofondo, Mar Dulce 3. Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid 4. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes 5. The Week That Was, The Week That Was 6. Shugo Tokumaru, Exit 7. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago 8. Shearwater, Rook …
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TV Reviews A year ago my blog’s reading level was elementary school. I wonder what happened in between?
 If you can get past the if-it’s-Monday-it’s-the-maroon-tie sobriety of its design, the Pilot Custom series can be a nib discovery tour. The 742 and 743 series come with music, stub (or sutab), coarse, wavily (akin to Sailor’s zoom) and falcon nibs, aside from the usual fine, medium and broad. The falcon nib, also known …
Available for 180 pesos at the Rockwell Urban Bazaar, this Moleskine lookalike will not make fountain pen users happy. However, as a gift for our friends who use gel pens and ballpoints, it can be a welcome go-anywhere notebook.
If you’ve always wondered exactly what “elastic” means when it comes to Nakaya nibs, this video should give you an idea.Â
Three years ago, I didn’t even know oblique nibs existed. Oblique nibs are cut at an angle, rather than straight across like an italic or stub, or rounded like most nibs. There are left-foot and right-foot obliques. I have a old Pelikan M400 with a left-foot OBB nib, an oblique double broad. I’m told that …
If you can gauge a pen by its name, then this pen has to be a heavy hitter. You can’t tell by the way it looks, though. The name refers to the nib, not to the body. A nib that deserves three nouns should be able to do anything short of tweeze eyebrows and squeeze …