Oh wow, a new video. It only took me 3,249 years to do a new one. The soundtrack is from Sarah 100’s There and Back Again Lane, Â “The Joy of Living” by Blueboy.
Polkadot piggy banks, recycled bottle chandeliers, faux patent croc jewelry boxes, sparkling skeletons, bamboo torches, brass trees, sequin-encrusted kiddie costumes, resin Santas skydiving with their resin parachutes, fairy lights twinkling in shoppers’ glassy eyes. Welcome to Dapitan Arcade. At the corner of Dapitan and Kanlaon streets in the maze of Quezon City, it’s a welcome …
I can’t read regular fiction. I’ve tried. I don’t care if it’s won a Booker. I turn the page and there’s this guy meeting his literary agent in a bar, and I wait for the Deleutherian delegation in their lightgrav suits, but they never appear. Thank you, science fiction, for spoiling my childhood. Thank you …
It pays to visit officemates’ cubicles, especially when they show you their latest pencil find and tell you where they got it. I rushed to Fully Booked over lunch break and bought one for me. M&G is a giant manufacturer of ballpens and other stationery items. This mechanical pencil, the AMP33701, is the first one …
Stephen Hull’s giant Conway Stewart book will be launched at the London Writing Equipment Show this coming October 3. I want one! Thanks to Andy Russell for letting me know. The standard edition will retail at USD 95 and the limited edition at USD 125. I think the prices are more than reasonable considering the …
I can’t even figure out how to change that logo on the upper left. I’ll get to it.
I am fiddling with themes, as usual. Unless I accidentally delete the search box, it should come in handy. 😉
I have been known to deplore SEO-friendly headlines for their lack of style, but I get this search query so often I feel I am performing a public service. Before anything else, read Antonios’ Short Guide to Flex. It is still the friendliest explanation of flexible nibs I know. A thread he started on the …
This is the blog entry equivalent of a Halloween candy assortment. Muji binder, Muji blank refills. Swan pen. A hard rubber Parker Lucky Curve. My old character in Second Life. She’s been retired. I quite like the glasses. I also wish I had this top in real life. Mike did a pencil sketch of me …
In jewelry, this pair would be called a demi-parure. I am dusting off that word and putting it here because the Moore 72 belongs to a time when women had parures and reticules. And tiny hands. The seller described the pen and pencil as made of plastic, but I think the material is black celluloid. …