September 7th, 2006 by The Bosphorus
I like fountain pens.
The Missus appreciates fountain pens more than anyone I’ve ever met. She has several and that was one of the first things I ever noticed about her. (One of the first things, mind you.) The Missus gave me one once as a birthday gift. It’s beautiful, black, and heavy. It rests in your hand with some weight.
Here’s one of the best articles on a fountain pen I’ve ever run across. Realivepreacher is somebody I’ve read for several years now. He consistently amazes me by his skill at taking common things and occurences and…reframing them.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
The great thing about fountain pens is that they help you create your own font.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
I bought a fountain pen when I (first) went to college. While nice, I didn’t really vive le difference.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Did you actually, you know, *write* stuff with it?
September 7th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Before I clicked the link, I parsed that url as re-alive preacher, which I assume would be some sort of undead preacher. Now I’m disappointed.
Any time I use a good heavy well-made pen, I just think how well I could stab something with it. That’s why they don’t let me have pens anymore.
September 8th, 2006 at 6:20 am
Well, I did write with it. See, handwriting isn’t my strongest suit. When I was a kid, they didn’t pay attention, so I developed a caveman fist holding technique thats too engrained to change. Hence, the keyboard. Now, I can type like an SOB.
With the fountain pen, see, I dunno, I can appreciate any nice fat heavy pen. However, unlike Bartley, after a few moments I don’t really think about stabbing things (too small and blunt, couldn’t do a quick stab and get away), but I do start thinking about the aerodynamic properties of a nice heavy pen with regard to being hurled at the stupid.
Something else thats been a related problem, all of the pens at Casa Tumor have been disappearing. Seriously. Gone. Not sure whats (kids) up with that.