Here’s a quick and dirty picture. The Myu 90 arrived today.
I first had two lists: top ten modern pens and top ten vintage pens. That I had acquired enough pens in 2008 to make two lists plus have others that didn’t make it to either list gave me pause. I decided to stick to one list. That was harder than I’d expected. What about the …
 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 …
Buck Rogers, Logan’s Run, Space: 1999, the Bionic Man, Astroboy, the Pilot Myu. There is a person this pen calls to, the person who has dreamt at least once of walking the moon in a reflectorized spacesuit, who greets internet-enabled refrigerators with glee. This is the quill Dr. Who could have dashed off notes to …
When I’m in a hurry, I abandon cursive. Goodbye loops, goodbye shading, goodbye thick and thin lines that swoop and scroll into descenders, ascenders and pretenders in between. My G looks like a 6, my R can’t be bothered to close its loop like a lady. Slow writing isn’t necessarily slow thinking. Sometimes the words …