Comments on: Pencil Revolution http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/ She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kaizerin http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-79 kaizerin Mon, 29 May 2006 23:23:56 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-79 PS: Ramona--So really, after you'd used one of your pencils to fight off the bears as you walked uphill both ways in the snow, you had to make do with ONE pencil all year?! Tragic! ;-) PS: Ramona–So really, after you’d used one of your pencils to fight off the bears as you walked uphill both ways in the snow, you had to make do with ONE pencil all year?! Tragic! ;-)

]]> By: kaizerin http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-77 kaizerin Mon, 29 May 2006 23:17:11 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-77 And every year, when the seasonal aisles of Target and the grocery store are given over to the Back to School theme, I still love to go through the aisles and look at all the stuff. It's only through sheer willpower that I don't go home with a new backpack stuffed full of pencils and notebooks. I suppose that's why fall still means "new beginnings" to me, huh? And every year, when the seasonal aisles of Target and the grocery store are given over to the Back to School theme, I still love to go through the aisles and look at all the stuff. It’s only through sheer willpower that I don’t go home with a new backpack stuffed full of pencils and notebooks.

I suppose that’s why fall still means “new beginnings” to me, huh?

]]> By: Ramona the Snitch http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Ramona the Snitch Sun, 28 May 2006 22:20:50 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-75 When Kai was a little (school) girl, she had a daddy who bought her beau ceau(?) (boo coo) packages of pencils; colored pencils, Saratoga #2 pencils, Venus Naturals No 2 by FaberCastell pencils, every August before the start of the school year. ... More pencils than a kid needed for 8 years of school! No wonder she is a little obsessed about wood and graphite. She probably even had pencils with her name embossed on them. Contrast that to the previous generation when her poor ole' mammy had two (count them, 2) pencils to last the entire school year. Did that make any difference in the pencil obsession game? Not. Mommie is also taken by all forms of styli. Perhaps it is genetic? When Kai was a little (school) girl, she had a daddy who bought her beau ceau(?) (boo coo) packages of pencils; colored pencils, Saratoga #2 pencils, Venus Naturals No 2 by FaberCastell pencils, every August before the start of the school year. … More pencils than a kid needed for 8 years of school! No wonder she is a little obsessed about wood and graphite. She probably even had pencils with her name embossed on them.
Contrast that to the previous generation when her poor ole’ mammy had two (count them, 2) pencils to last the entire school year. Did that make any difference in the pencil obsession game? Not. Mommie is also taken by all forms of styli. Perhaps it is genetic?

]]> By: kaizerin http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-62 kaizerin Thu, 04 May 2006 19:50:53 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-62 W00t! My first pack of pencils arrived yesterday. There were two good-quality regular pencils, a fancy, cinnamon-scented "Smencil", and a really cool pencil sharpener in a very Kaizerin pinky-red hypercolor (like those nail polishes that change color depending on how the light strikes them, you know?) The pencils are pretty nice, but I don't know enough about the subject yet to say whether they're outstanding. But the sharpener is <em>tres</em> cool. I'munna hafta get me more o' them. W00t! My first pack of pencils arrived yesterday. There were two good-quality regular pencils, a fancy, cinnamon-scented “Smencil”, and a really cool pencil sharpener in a very Kaizerin pinky-red hypercolor (like those nail polishes that change color depending on how the light strikes them, you know?) The pencils are pretty nice, but I don’t know enough about the subject yet to say whether they’re outstanding. But the sharpener is tres cool. I’munna hafta get me more o’ them.

]]> By: Pencil Revolution http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Pencil Revolution Tue, 02 May 2006 19:36:55 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-58 Thank you very very much for your kind words. :) We're happy to see that the Revolution is spreading and changing people's minds about pencils. Thank you very very much for your kind words. :)
We’re happy to see that the Revolution is spreading and changing people’s minds about pencils.

]]> By: kaizerin http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-56 kaizerin Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:53:07 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-56 Of course I signed up for the PotM Club--I couldn't resist! I'm a nerd at every level of technology: high tech, low tech...no tech... :-) What's great is, since the payment is already processed and done with, it'll just seem like some nice person out there is sending me little pencil care packages each month, like an office-supplies Secret Santa. I'll be sure to let you know of any pencils that capture my fancy, you betcha. Of course I signed up for the PotM Club–I couldn’t resist! I’m a nerd at every level of technology: high tech, low tech…no tech… :-)

What’s great is, since the payment is already processed and done with, it’ll just seem like some nice person out there is sending me little pencil care packages each month, like an office-supplies Secret Santa. I’ll be sure to let you know of any pencils that capture my fancy, you betcha.

]]> By: CountessZ http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/04/pencil-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-54 CountessZ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:31:40 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=30#comment-54 Ah, the Levinger catalog (drop another dime in the jar, Kai), it has long been a source of untold pleasures for me. As a graduation present from college, my mother gave me an editors desk from them with my initials carved into it. It is one of my most cherished possesions. I hadn't realized you'd signed up for the pencil of the month club! That's great. Perhaps you'll have to share with us when you find one you particularly love? Ah, the Levinger catalog (drop another dime in the jar, Kai), it has long been a source of untold pleasures for me. As a graduation present from college, my mother gave me an editors desk from them with my initials carved into it. It is one of my most cherished possesions.

I hadn’t realized you’d signed up for the pencil of the month club! That’s great. Perhaps you’ll have to share with us when you find one you particularly love?

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