If you have a knife, a collection of thin bamboo sticks originally meant to be home decor, and an idle mind, you can make your own bamboo pen. Carve diagonally into the tip of the bamboo (if you didn’t pick yours up from a home store, but from your backyard, you’ll have to dry it …
Month: February 2009
“It’s not you, it’s me.” That statement has justified the ending of a thousand relationships. In my case, it signified a beginning. I put up my bronze celluloid Moore 94-A for sale last year. It’s a good-looking pen, around the size of a Pelikan M400. I didn’t bond with it as I’d hoped. The Maniflex …
These vintage Conway Stewart pens will be the wagging finger in my face. “Leigh, you said you were going to focus on Japanese pens. You said.” I will eat my words. I always do. This pen is too pretty. Produced between 1957 and 1963, the 85L has a slim, tapering profile and a single band …
Danitrio boxes are heavy. Between my black handbag and a Danitrio box, entire universes collapse into singularities. All my previous Danitrio pens came in a plain black box. This one is deep red with “Urushi” and “Mikado” silkscreened on the cover. My new arrival, though, is no Mikado. (Danitrio’s Mikado size is simply too large …
One of my favorite commercials of all time is Anthony Hopkins doing the big boy thing for Barclays Bank. If the copywriter had decided to include a line about signing a big contract with a big pen, and if the big client did not insist on a big English pen (in which case this entry …
When the Kindle takes over the known universe, we won’t be able to casually glance over someone’s bookshelf and say ah, that’s what you’re like. (Unless I push through with my LED necklace that goes online and downloads your RSS feeds and makes them scroll across your chest.) So in the spirit of historical preservation, …
Kokuyo paper, Waterman 7 Pink flexible nib inked with Sailor black, taken with the Nokia N85 in low light. This is today’s phone wallpaper.
I have walked many streets with this song in my ears. It is a triumph of songwriting, from the internal rhymes to the conversational cadence. It’s about time I did a video for it. Also, you see a little more of me in this one, because the instrumental bridge was a wee bit longer than …
One of the best things about working in advertising is I can shoot myself writing in my notebook during internal meetings when only 4% of my brain is required.