[Pen/Pencil Review] Morning Glory Mach 3 Brown Ink 0.38mm
I don’t know why some Mondays are a bigger struggle than others, but they are. This one is one of them. I left the pen I’m reviewing at home, so I don’t have it physically in front of me, but I’m going to do my best. This is one of my last batch from JetPens […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Zebra Sarasa RDI Retractable Multi-Pack
Last month I wrote about a Zebra Sarasa gel ink pen and did the follow/like thing on Social Media. I learned through Facebook that they were coming out with a new type of gel ink called RDI – Rapid Dry Ink. I mentioned that I would love to try these out and do a blog […]
[Pen/Pencil Review Post] Pilot US Customer Service
This week’s pen blog – in the spirit of “Good Will Towards Men” – I’m doing a Stage 1 follow up on the Pilot Petit1 review and how Pilot handles at least some customer service issues. I don’t know how they deal with all of them, but this is one of them. I have several […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Pilot V-Pen Medium Nib Disposable Fountain Pens
Today’s pen review is the Pilot V-Pen disposable fountain pen in a Medium Point nib, which is similar to the Varsity, but different. I’m pretty sure I got these from JetPens, since the Varsities are ones more likely to be found in US stores. The Pilot V-Pen fountain pen is a great little “starter” fountain […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Dallas Pen Show 2013 Review
Welcome to Monday. It’s a pen blog day. This past weekend was the Dallas Pen Show. I actually had more than an hour and a half this time, and yet… I think that’s all I spent there. This year the Pen Show and FenCon weren’t on the same weekend, so Jimmy could go with me […]
[Spotlight Post][Pen/Pencil Review] Regularly Scheduled Blogging
Yes, I realize I missed TWO blogs last week. I was on staff of LoneStarCon 3 – aka WorldCon. I ran my feet to the nubs. Friday I could’ve sworn it was Saturday – and Monday we were tearing down and traveling. I know I should’ve had prepared blogs, but alas, I did not. I […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Sharpie Gel Highlighter
So, it’s pen blog time. Bear with me as it is also…Post Convention brain dead pen blog day. Fortunately, I photographed three things last week knowing I needed something to prompt me today. And since I’ve done two of my three Halloween novelty pens, and there’s still a week to go, I’m going to do […]
[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] 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] The Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.4mm in Pink Ink
A couple of weeks ago, JetPens.com did a random “We’re giving away samples to bloggers” deal. They were very specific that this was a bunch of samples they were just going to send out willy-nilly to bloggers who emailed in, so…and this is a nearly direct quote, “A guy could get a sparkly pink pen.” […]