[Pen/Pencil Review] Another Novelty Pen – A Koosh Hair Green Skull Ballpoint Pen with Blue Ink
This weekend was our ORAC meeting. This is a fangroup Jimmy and I belong to that FenCon gets its core group of staff. And they’re all around good people, so that’s the added bonus. Anyway, this month’s meeting was (sigh) 5 minutes from where I now work. On the way back, I needed to stop […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] A Halloween Broomstick Novelty Ballpoint Pen – black ink
This Halloween Season, I’m featuring a novelty pen I found at Walgreens. This one is a “Broom Penâ€. It’s a plastic body that looks like wood with the old fashioned broom end. It called to me from the seasonal aisle. This inexpensive pen is too much fun. For a ballpoint, it actually writes pretty well. […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Baoer 79 Starwalker Replica Fine Point Fountain Pen
So, my “big†purchase at the Dallas Pen Show – besides renewing our subscription to Pen World was the Baoer 79 Starwalker Tribute pen. This is a replica of the Montblanc Starwalker, which I do want someday but totally can’t afford now. The Baoer is a decent replica. It’s not one of the lightweight, cheap […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] No pens today
We just finished another FenCon. I have no brain. I did make it to The Dallas Pen Show for a little over an hour. I bought a couple of things and met some people, but more indepth stuff will happen again next week. It’s full of the pretty… as always. I apologize for not having […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Dallas Pen Show Preview
I apologize in advance for this week’s set of blog posts – and probably next week’s. This is FenCon week and I’m up to my freshly waxed eyebrows in staff duties, last minute details, and getting stuff done. It’s a week of time management, panic-mode, and primal screams. Next week will be recovery, starting a […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The UT Tyler Library Giveaway Ergonomic Retractable BallPoint Pen
This past weekend, I participated in The East Texas Book Festival. I’ll be talking more about that on Wednesday, but in the goodie bag they gave everyone was a promotional pen from the major sponsor, UT Tyler Library. I don’t even know what to call this thing to find it online. If anyone comes up […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Holiday Rerun – Mad Moravian Cigar Style Ballpoint Pen
Please forgive the rerun, not only is it the Labor Day holiday here in the US, I’ve been sick this lovely 3-day weekend. So I’m going to repost this review… Don’t go looking for this pen at your local Office Supply Chain Store or even your favorite online source. You won’t find it. In fact, […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The BIC Fine Point 0.7mm Ball Point – Green Ink
Lou Antonelli is both a good person and a bad, bad enabler. He started me on the path of the Bic Biro Fine point ballpoint pens, and he’s actually completed the set for me. He got a shipment of the green fine points from Ireland (and no, the symbolism isn’t lost on me). And no, […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Office Depot Multi-Function Pen
This week’s pen review is on a more gimmicky, but useful thing. Office Depot has a store brand “multi-pen” in their back-to-school section. I picked one up on sale, and it’s not bad. For what it is. This multi-pen isn’t the standard 3 or 4 color pen like BIC makes. This one does have a […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Staples Strata Liquid Rollerball 0.5mm in Blue Ink
Today’s pen is the Staples Strata 0.5mm rollerball with blue ink. Strata is Staples’s “house” brand of pen. It’s a fairly typical, disposable rollerball, but has something last week’s pen didn’t, a “true” 0.5mm point feel. The Strata is 5.5″ long capped and just at 6″ with the cap posted. It has a slightly squishy […]