As I am madly packing for the DC Supershow, this week seems to be about notebooks. I love having a good notebook for a pen show so that I can try pens from friends and inks, both purchased and from the ink table. There are some interesting articles in the Notebooks & Paper section listed…
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Link Love: Splashdown!
I promise that today is the last day that I will inundate you with Apollo 11 links and whatnot. Since this is an opportunity that comes around once every 50 years, I’m taking full advantage of it. I grew up on science fiction movies, tv shows and novels and the wave of history that, by…
Link Love: Houston, We Have a Link Love
You knew I would go here, right? With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, its been a permanent celebration at our house. I am streaming the live feed mirroring the moon landing (link below), writing with the ink from the Colorverse First Moon Landing set and generally being our most space geekiest…
Link Love: Walt Whitman, Sex God?
Did the title of this week’s Link Love catch your attention? I thought it might. Just hop down to the “Other Interesting Things” section to find the article from Hyperallergenic about Whitman’s swarthy, marketing ways. Oh, yeah… he might have been all Walden Pond-ish but he knew a thing or two poetry and, as Robin…
Link Love: Crazy Days of Summer
This week, there are ballpoint pen reviews and witty crosstitch designs. Is this the end-of-times edition? No, it’s just the wild-and-crazy days of summer. Nick Stewart shows off a giant calligraphy brush and Mono paints a city bus to loon like their iconic eraser and packaging. In more normal posts, there are also reviews of…
Link Love: A Full Docket
While I was in St. Louis for the pen show this weekend, it looks like everyone else was hard at work getting a backlog of reviews and posts completed. We have a full docket this week with reviews for the new J. Herbin shimmer ink Kyanite du Nepal, lots of pencil reviews, some event recaps…
Link Love: Doing ALL the Things
This was a week of to-do lists. They were the things I actually accomplished, things I still need to do and things I wish I could do. On the list of things I accomplished was preparation for the St. Louis Pen Show including unveiling the newest Col-o-ring product, The Col-o-ring “Oversize”. It’s a 4×5.5″ spiral…