[Pen/Pencil Review] Retro 1951 Tornado Rollerball – Pen World Edition
I now have a set of pens that I am probably going to have to do a two-parter on. Between the Dallas Pen Show and Christmas I have acquired the Retro 1951 Tornado roller ball and fountain pen built for Pen World Magazine. It mixes my two loves – reading about the pens and actually […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Happy New Year – 2020 edition
We are all going to be doing “vision” jokes for the next year. I wish I could say everything was going to be on time and brilliant – because it’ll be one or the other, and sometimes neither, consistent might be a thing. But I promise to do my best. There will always be things […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Christmas Eve 2019 Edition
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all out there – and Happy Holidays to those who celebrate something else or nothing else. Being Christmas Eve and full of family and Santa tracking and the like, this is going to be a bit of a wrap up blog, with next week being the look forward/new pen […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] PaperMate InkJoy Green Gel – 0.5mm – Rerun for the Holidays
It’s a busy time of the year, so I’m going to rerun this green pen, which I love and am using a lot this holiday season. ____ Today’s blog post is a revisit that isn’t a revisit – again. Today we meet the Paper Mate InkJoy GREEN GEL pen. This retractable pen is something that […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Milloo Minos No2 Backpack
This week’s pen blog isn’t a pen, but it came from an online pen store. For quite a while I’ve been looking for a great bag for work. I love leather. I thought I was probably looking for a messenger bag, but then during Thanksgiving weekend, this bag made itself known. It’s the Milloo backpack […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Reindeer Bird Christmas Ballpoint Pen
It’s not a holiday season without at least one funny novelty pen. This one was from the last trip to DAISO. It’s silly and fluffy and cheap. I had to have it. This is a fluffy brown, duck-billed, flamingo thing wearing reindeer antlers and a jingle bell ball point pen. The ink point is a […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Pilot Precise V5 Multi-Color 10-Pack
This is a day late because 1) Thanksgiving Week; 2) much work/life balancing; 3) we went to see Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary last night. WORTH IT! So I’m doing a wee bit of revisit. This week is the the Pilot Precise V5 extra fine in ten colors – because COLORS. These are 0.5mm […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Yookers Yooth 549 Scarlet Red Refillable Fiber Tip Pen
This is the second pen I picked up in New Orleans. This one from Scriptura, which is more in the Garden District. Scriptura is more of a stationary/paper store with a few pens. I was going to pick something up anyway, but this week’s pen caught my eye near the register. This week’s pen is […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Graphite Pencil + Paper Store
I know this is a day late – Day Job has been a bear. So this will be quick. This past weekend, Jimmy wanted to do something different…spontaneous even. We headed up to McKinney, Texas, on Sunday afternoon. First we hit up our friends at Carpe Diem Comics, and did our part to make it […]
[Pen/Pencil Blog] The Diplomat Traveller Flame
I missed last week because of Day Job stuff, but it’s all starting to wind down a little bit, so here we are. This is one of the really cool pens I picked up in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago (though it feels like it was longer than that). This one was from […]