In the end, I always return to fine fountain pens.

A pen and some puns.

Writes like an uncooperative ball-point pen.

Cool, I guess, but I like "supplies."

Strathmore vellum, crow-quill nibs, Pelikan drawing ink

Looking a little like an Andy Warhol work

Review of a book of artists' lists

A good online source

Washington Post article on a dowdy writing instrument

Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen

Like it says, at Office Supply Geek

Ugh.

Thoughts on writing and searching, inspired by Gill's comments on letterpress printing

A passage from Great Expectations

Nibs and ink

Marketing at its best. Not.

Parker T-Ball Jotter, red ballpoint, Faber-Castell Uni-Ball, Montblanc, Pelkan: for National Handwriting Day

Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen has written a dissertation arguing that pens and pencils are crucial in the development of creativity and intelligence.

January 23

In the movie Laura