Sunday Reads: Pens, Good Reads, And A Very Cool Cat

A few tidbits for a busy Sunday…

• Teoh: $5 vs $500 fountain pen: What’s the difference?
• Write eXperience: My Goldilocks Pen: Lamy 2000, 50 Years Old And Still Just Right
• Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Books of 2018

You’ll never be as cool as this cat. pic.twitter.com/yKyW8V5jW9

— ANIMALS R US (@Animal_R_Us) December 6, 2018

 

 

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Sunday Reads: Pens And Horses

In my youth, I was horse crazy. Fond memories. I still love horses, but these days I rarely get closer than the two Baoer Eight Horses fountain pens below.

• The Gentleman Stationer: Platinum #3776 Revisited: My Thoughts 2+ Years Later (Permanent member of my top five list.)
• The Pelikan’s Perch: The Story Of Günther Wagner’s Danzig-Langfuhr Factory and the Danzig 100N
• Fountain Pen Blog: First impressions of the new Platinum Procyon fountain pen
• Life Imitates Doodles Giveaway
• Watch if you agree that horses are delightful creatures.

Five years ago, this was my rotation.

Platinum #3776
Platinum #3776 Century
Lamy AL-Star
Pelikan M400
Pelikan M215
Pilot Namiki Falcon
Sailor 1911
Sailor Sapporo
Baoer Eight Horses in Bronze
Baoer Eight Horses in Copper
Pilot Custom 742FA

Midweek Links: Pen, Paper And Ink

The first link about slowing down handwriting speed is good advice though it isn’t always practical. However, this action does improve legibility and suits any writing that others must read. The last link is to an article about one of my favorite journal creators and includes several pages as well as a few of the fountain pens he uses. Enjoy!

• Life Hacker: Improve Your Handwriting by Slowing Down
• Why Havanese dogs should come in pairs. (My Havanese, Macy, approved this video.)
• Cheap Joe’s 2 Minute Art Tips – Noodler’s Ink
• Goldspot Pens: Why the Pilot Custom 823 fountain pen is a quintessential writer’s pen
• Poor thing. Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed.
• This $1.7 Million Motorhome That Will Blow Your Mind
• The art of the travel diary – in pictures

From the archives, my Autumn 2012 rotation:

Sunday Reads: Pens, Memes, And Sherlock Holmes

There is no connecting the dots between these links, except that they were some of the most interesting ones from this past week.

• Jet Pens: Top 10 Fountain Pen Releases of 2018
• Internet Meme Database
• Dear Holmes
• J. Herbin Inks For 2018
• Make Use Of: Good News! 5 Places to Read or Hear Positive and Uplifting News
• Stillman & Birn Nova Series

Noodler’s Standard Flex Pen With Apache Sunset Ink

Sunday Reads: Pen Stuff And A Cat Pretzel

Pen stuff especially for people in the U.S. hungover from reverting to Standard Time. It shouldn’t happen to a dog and in Macy’s case it didn’t. She was ready for her first trip outside at 7am on this overcast Sunday morning. Then she promptly took a nap and left me to my own devices, the phone and laptop. At least I discovered some pen links to share.

• Quick Fountain Pen Review: Noodler’s Naponset Music Nib
• Fountain pen blog: My haul from the London Pen Show, 2018.
• Janet Salmons: Academic Writing with Pen in Hand
• Times of India: Fountain pens still ink an indelible signature in Hyderabad
• From the Pen Cup: LAMY in NYC: A Visit In Which Some Secrets Are Revealed

 

I just wanted a pretzel 🥨 pic.twitter.com/xkugNFWwx1

— ANIMALS R US (@Animal_R_Us) November 2, 2018

Sunday Reads: Zombies, Sketchbook Ideas, And A Ghost

Halloween is upon us so zombies and a haunted store seemed appropriate. Now back work on an ink and pen post for tomorrow.

• Sketchbook Ideas
• NatGeo: Use these adventure skills to survive the zombie apocalypse (Really!)
• The Oldest Book Store in America (and Possibly the World) Is Also Haunted

Sunday Reads: Ink, Pens And Paper

A few on-topic links…

• The Well-Appointed Desk: Eye Candy: Penlux Inks (My fave is Rouge.)
• Fountain Pen Follies: Five Months: an Extended Test of Platinum Carbon Black Pigment Ink
• The Pelikan’s Perch: News: Pelikan Raises U.S. Prices
• The Pencilcase Blog: Review: Scribo Write Here Fountain Pen
• inksharks: review: diamine teal (Mirrors my own experience.)
• Hand Over That Pen: Review: Platinum Izumo (Soratame, Broad Nib)
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Planner Review: Easy Tiger Pocket Planner

From the archives: