The Watched Pot never boils and the Anticipated Mail Delivery never arrives. They apparently went to school together.
I’m anxiously awaiting two pens. One is an Esterbrook #32 dip pen and the other is my Pelikan M200 that has spent a week or two at the Dannzeman Fountain Pen Finishing School where it has been coerced [...]
Parker Vacumatic Standard
1st Generation
2nd Quarter, 1937
Burgundy Pearl Celluloid
Striped Section
Striped Jewels
Triple Cap Bands
Lock-Down Filler
Two-Tone Medium Nib
I purchased this near-mint Vacumatic at the 2009 Los Angeles Pen Show from Dr. David Isaacson of Vacumania.
The pen is so stunningly beautiful that I simply stared at it for a week before I could bring myself to ink and use [...]
Have you shopped for toothpaste lately? Just how many different brands, varieties, sizes and flavors are needed to satisfy the marketplace? I’d say four, maximum. Certainly not the forty-plus that exist today.
Having too many options hinders the decision making process. There’s even a term for it: Consumer Vertigo
The same vertigo can be experienced when searching [...]