I write bits and pieces. They accumulate. A phrase in a Kokuyo Campus notebook, another on 60 lb. drawing paper. Most of the phrases don’t mean anything much. “Courage begins as fear.” “Not lately.” “ABCDEFGHIJ” seems to be the most common bit. So I figure, okay, one bit plus this other bit can make – oh …
The shock of it all. The raging sadness of it all. And how much we want to help, and how little our help seems to be, dwarfed by tragedy after tragedy. Hungry and angry mobs. Old people soaked in bedsores. A tiny foot motionless in the mud. It is hard to work. I read tweet …
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I’ve been lurking on Threadless, the amazing crowdsourced-and-curated line of t-shirts that makes everyone who wears them feel just a little bit more intelligent. All of my slogans have so far been rated mostly stupid. I am in good cheer about this, and not in a reverse-psychology-defensive way, because as much as the creativity is …
This Eversharp Skyline with the striped cap was one of my first vintage pens. I sold it to a friend, who eventually traded it back to me. That was a year ago. I was happy to have it back; the nib had moderate flex, and had a nimble, springy quality. The sac, though, had expired. …
It’s a mouthful of a description. That’s because it’s a lot of nib. The pen it comes in isn’t half bad, either. A no-name overlay eyedropper pen, this went up on FPN several weeks ago, and after many seconds of dithering, I decided it belonged to me. The cartouche is unengraved, and the hard black …
I am grateful I do not collect watches. As it is, my toys are being joined by other toys (that have more of a right to be called toys). There is no more space on my desk. Even folders are being pressed into duty as backdrops. What’s next, I wonder? Stop-motion fountain pen and articulated …
OMG, YAGWP: cosmetic bags, yet another free (but not too useful) blush brush, drawstring pouches – you name it, if it’s a gift with purchase I have it moldering in a drawer somewhere. This is when it helps to have a NBT (Natural Born Tinkerer) in your life. He repurposed my freebie box (free with …
I wonder why it’s called that? Anyway, if Gerry Berg says it, it must be true. Not that I know the man personally, but he seems quite the Sheaffer authority. The pen came in a box from TAO, who likes to put surprises in boxes. Â WASP means “W.A.Sheaffer Pen,” and I see that a gazillion …
I look at this pen and I think of robots and space opera. Was it their then-zeitgeist, futuristic science making the decade of the Second World War easier to bear? The Eversharp Skyline was produced between 1940 to 1949. Many will contend that science fiction’s first golden age was the 50s, ushered in by Isaac …