General Interest 69

Blog Review: Rhonda Eudaly

October 2, 2023November 29, 2011 by Peter Warrior: Pen & Pencil Expert

One thing that we’ve always tried to do here at the Pen Vibe Blog is focus not just on the writing instruments, but also on the things we do with them, whether it’s journaling, writing letters, drawing, or signing contracts.

See, while it’s fun to talk about all the unique little aspects of our favorite pens, we actually buy them for a reason, to express ourselves in ways both mundane and extraordinary. We enjoy pens and pencils not solely for themselves, but for what we can accomplish through them. That’s the whole point of a writing instrument (no pun intended).

Pentel Lancelot Ballpoint Pen – Series 3 Review

October 2, 2023November 26, 2011 by Peter Warrior: Pen & Pencil Expert

With the class & quality that you would expect from a pen made by a Japanese company, the Pentel Lancelot is a retractable, refillable sleek looking ballpoint. Part of the luxury collection, this pen comes in black, blue, pink & silver barrels. Made from lacquered brass they have chrome plated fittings, including an eye catching band around the barrel, & all have a lifetime warranty against defects & workmanship issues.

Pilot V-Pen V4 Disposable Fountain Pen Review

March 31, 2020November 24, 2011 by Tony Bridges

Not being one to give up easily & having difficulty getting to grips with the art of writing with a fountain pen, I decided to give the Pilot V-Pen a go.

My first impression was that it was comfortable to hold, as I started to write I didn’t get the feeling it was any different to anything else in my collection. This is a first, I usually get negative vibes before the ink has dried on my first couple of words.

Mystery Artist Uses Uniball Pen to Draw Pigeons All Over Bangor, Maine

December 11, 2019November 22, 2011 by Tony Bridges

For the last several months, an unidentified street artist has been pasting up drawings of pigeons – and hummingbirds and shopping carts and other objects, too – around downtown Bangor.

Handwritten Thank-You Notes From the Boss

December 11, 2019November 21, 2011 by Tony Bridges

Years ago, when I was just starting out as a newspaper reporter, I worked at a paper run by publisher Dave Lawrence. Although he was in charge of a large, busy daily metro newspaper, he often took to the time to send out handwritten notes when someone’s work particularly pleased him.

They arrived in stiff, yellow inter-office memo envelopes, closed by a string, and were known around the newsroom as ‘Dave Raves.’

I’d been at the paper for a few months, working the night desk, and was pretty sure he had no idea who I was. A couple of my stories had made the front page, but mostly I wrote minor briefs and obituaries that got tucked away in the back sections.

And then one day, I came in to work and found, in my mailbox, one of those little envelopes from the publisher’s office. It was a handwritten ‘Dave Rave’ praising an obit I’d recently written about a local cartoonist.