Comments on: Late Nite FDL: An Ode to School Supplies http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:11:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Sixpak Chopra http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279477 Sixpak Chopra Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:29:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279477 <p>I’ve always liked the like of things written with fountain pens. Like someone else upthread, I’m a lefty too. The ink doesn’t dry before my hand goes over what I’ve just written…</p> <p>:-(</p> I’ve always liked the like of things written with fountain pens. Like someone else upthread, I’m a lefty too. The ink doesn’t dry before my hand goes over what I’ve just written…

:-(

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279128 SouthernDragon Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:46:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279128 <p>I still have two Sheaffer fountain pens, one is gold made in the early 60s and the other stainless from the 70s. I use them both out of the house but prefer to dip with a nib and holder at home. The old composition books are still the best for journals and such and real ink doesn’t bleed out on the page. I keep all my excerpts in them. We have a small family-owned office supply store on the beach and the aroma is to die for. Real paper and real ink. Shelby Foote wrote his 3-volume civil war narrative entirely with a dip pen. </p> <p>Primary day here in Florida. I’m hoping Harris wins so we can hammer her in November. Her losing in the primary isn’t punishment enough IMHO. But being Treasurer for Samm Simpson, I’ve got enough to worry about trying to unseat Bill Young. Ray McGovern is coming next weekend for a fundraiser for Samm on Sunday and a 9/11 peace rally in Tampa sponsored by Veterans For Peace on Monday.</p> I still have two Sheaffer fountain pens, one is gold made in the early 60s and the other stainless from the 70s. I use them both out of the house but prefer to dip with a nib and holder at home. The old composition books are still the best for journals and such and real ink doesn’t bleed out on the page. I keep all my excerpts in them. We have a small family-owned office supply store on the beach and the aroma is to die for. Real paper and real ink. Shelby Foote wrote his 3-volume civil war narrative entirely with a dip pen.

Primary day here in Florida. I’m hoping Harris wins so we can hammer her in November. Her losing in the primary isn’t punishment enough IMHO. But being Treasurer for Samm Simpson, I’ve got enough to worry about trying to unseat Bill Young. Ray McGovern is coming next weekend for a fundraiser for Samm on Sunday and a 9/11 peace rally in Tampa sponsored by Veterans For Peace on Monday.

]]> By: Frank http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279060 Frank Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:53:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279060 <p>School supplies are still exciting and full of promise for me as well. It was Weaver fountain pens for me, woth the soft plastic blue ink loads. Got a new one every year.<br /> My 10 year-old daughter was just gushing about her new two-tip Sharpies. </p> <p>And an office supply store is the only store I actually enjoy spending time in.</p> School supplies are still exciting and full of promise for me as well. It was Weaver fountain pens for me, woth the soft plastic blue ink loads. Got a new one every year.
My 10 year-old daughter was just gushing about her new two-tip Sharpies.

And an office supply store is the only store I actually enjoy spending time in.

]]> By: Frank http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279045 Frank Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:42:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-279045 <p><a href="#comment-278612"><em>TRex @<br /> 101 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>I am an emphatic blue ink person. Other fountain pen friends have tried to convince me to try all sorts of greens and sepias or even particularly brilliant blacks, but I just keep coming back to as royal a royal blue as I can find. Which, at this point is <a href="http://cathedralpens.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=126">Private Reserve’s American Blue</a>, but I am very partial to <a href="http://www.pendemonium.com/ink_pelikan.htm">Pelikan Blue Black.</a></p> <p>Sheaffer used to make a Sapphire Blue that was particularly good, but they don’t anymore.</p></blockquote> TRex @
101

I am an emphatic blue ink person. Other fountain pen friends have tried to convince me to try all sorts of greens and sepias or even particularly brilliant blacks, but I just keep coming back to as royal a royal blue as I can find. Which, at this point is Private Reserve’s American Blue, but I am very partial to Pelikan Blue Black.

Sheaffer used to make a Sapphire Blue that was particularly good, but they don’t anymore.

]]> By: » Blog Archive » Summer’s Lease http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278966 » Blog Archive » Summer’s Lease Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:40:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278966 <p>[…] I read this piece, “An Ode to School Supplies” at firedoglake and thought it funny and poignant. When I was a lad, and many of you will remember this yourselves, our summers were not rigorously structured into camps, workshops, off-season athletic practices, or French lessons. Summer came and our parents basically kicked us out of the house with our bicycles in the morning and reeled us in at dinner time, sunburned, bug-bitten, and exhausted. […]</p> […] I read this piece, “An Ode to School Supplies” at firedoglake and thought it funny and poignant. When I was a lad, and many of you will remember this yourselves, our summers were not rigorously structured into camps, workshops, off-season athletic practices, or French lessons. Summer came and our parents basically kicked us out of the house with our bicycles in the morning and reeled us in at dinner time, sunburned, bug-bitten, and exhausted. […]

]]> By: DallasNE http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278951 DallasNE Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:26:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278951 <p>I do not see reason for dispair regarding a facist takeover of America. Why? Demographics. Voters under 25 are solidly Democratic from the polling reports I have seen. And that is also where Howard Dean’s 50 State strategy comes into play. Make the Republican work to retain seats in currently “safe” districts. Challenge Trent Lott in Mississippi. With economic conditions what they are in Mississippi there is no reason 80% of white voters should vote for Lott. Except for ship building, what has Lott done for Mississippi.</p> I do not see reason for dispair regarding a facist takeover of America. Why? Demographics. Voters under 25 are solidly Democratic from the polling reports I have seen. And that is also where Howard Dean’s 50 State strategy comes into play. Make the Republican work to retain seats in currently “safe” districts. Challenge Trent Lott in Mississippi. With economic conditions what they are in Mississippi there is no reason 80% of white voters should vote for Lott. Except for ship building, what has Lott done for Mississippi.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278860 Adie Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:47:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278860 <p>Spiral notebooks. Isn’t that how the rapture is supposed to arrive?</p> Spiral notebooks. Isn’t that how the rapture is supposed to arrive?

]]> By: portia.vz http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278848 portia.vz Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:38:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278848 <p>Ok, here’s one for you. My daughter’s teacher sent home a list that requested “4 single subject notebooks. No spiral notebooks for safety reasons.”<br /> Can someone please explain to me how you can possibly be injured by a spiral bound notebook? What suburban Soccer Mom’s twisted mind came up with an injury that could be caused by such things? I feel like the knight in the Holy Grail who makes fun of the vorpal bunny. It’s just absurd. In all my 40 years, I have never known anyone to have suffered at the hands of a spiral bound notebook.<br /> Well, they’ve taken all of the fun things out of the playgrounds and regulated suburban childhood to death. I suppose notebooks are the logical next step. I can imagine the incensed teachers beating children over the head while screaming, “I said, No wire notebooks!”<br /> It took me a half an hour longer of searching the Staples store to locate the elusive single-subject-but-not-spiral-notebooks. (No ordinary composition books would do because the pages are not 3-hole punched.) 99% of their inventory was spiral and other teacher’s kids were snapping them up left and right. I found my cache tucked away in a corner, covered in dust.<br /> This does not bode well for the rest of the school year.</p> Ok, here’s one for you. My daughter’s teacher sent home a list that requested “4 single subject notebooks. No spiral notebooks for safety reasons.”
Can someone please explain to me how you can possibly be injured by a spiral bound notebook? What suburban Soccer Mom’s twisted mind came up with an injury that could be caused by such things? I feel like the knight in the Holy Grail who makes fun of the vorpal bunny. It’s just absurd. In all my 40 years, I have never known anyone to have suffered at the hands of a spiral bound notebook.
Well, they’ve taken all of the fun things out of the playgrounds and regulated suburban childhood to death. I suppose notebooks are the logical next step. I can imagine the incensed teachers beating children over the head while screaming, “I said, No wire notebooks!”
It took me a half an hour longer of searching the Staples store to locate the elusive single-subject-but-not-spiral-notebooks. (No ordinary composition books would do because the pages are not 3-hole punched.) 99% of their inventory was spiral and other teacher’s kids were snapping them up left and right. I found my cache tucked away in a corner, covered in dust.
This does not bode well for the rest of the school year.

]]> By: BQ http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278808 BQ Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:53:12 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278808 <p>I too am an office/school supplies addict. Sometimes it’s a full-on OfficeDepot spree, others just a quick hit on the “on sale” tags at the local pharmacy. </p> <p>I’ve always had a thing for good pens - not necessarily high-end, just ones that are comfortable to use and have good ink flow. Even though our office supplied pens, I would use my own, which led to inquiries, which led to demands that the office order the pens I used… From then on, every time I “traded up,” so did they.</p> <p>Ah, the smell of mimeos! Remember how everyone in the class would suck the whole page to their collective faces to breathe deep that strangely intoxicating aroma? </p> <p>Our school had old radiators, too. We moved beyond crayons when they produced that gum in the 70s that had a liquid center. That blew up real nice. </p> <p>I feel bad for kids today that seem to have every moment scheduled, even in summer. I remember going to the library once a week and wandering the stacks, just pulling books that caught my eye, scanning the endflaps, and compiling a tottering stack that I would shove along with my foot til I was done. Once I discovered <em>The Count of Monte Christo</em>, I read it at least once every summer. Always a book, a tree, a dog, and me. Sure, some more populated and rioutous times, but those days are the ones I can transport myself back to with a whiff of new mown grass or freshly harvested wheat.</p> I too am an office/school supplies addict. Sometimes it’s a full-on OfficeDepot spree, others just a quick hit on the “on sale” tags at the local pharmacy.

I’ve always had a thing for good pens – not necessarily high-end, just ones that are comfortable to use and have good ink flow. Even though our office supplied pens, I would use my own, which led to inquiries, which led to demands that the office order the pens I used… From then on, every time I “traded up,” so did they.

Ah, the smell of mimeos! Remember how everyone in the class would suck the whole page to their collective faces to breathe deep that strangely intoxicating aroma?

Our school had old radiators, too. We moved beyond crayons when they produced that gum in the 70s that had a liquid center. That blew up real nice.

I feel bad for kids today that seem to have every moment scheduled, even in summer. I remember going to the library once a week and wandering the stacks, just pulling books that caught my eye, scanning the endflaps, and compiling a tottering stack that I would shove along with my foot til I was done. Once I discovered The Count of Monte Christo, I read it at least once every summer. Always a book, a tree, a dog, and me. Sure, some more populated and rioutous times, but those days are the ones I can transport myself back to with a whiff of new mown grass or freshly harvested wheat.

]]> By: beard5 http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278806 beard5 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:52:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/late-nite-fdl-an-ode-to-school-supplies/#comment-278806 <p><a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/05/true-or-false/">New Post!</a></p> New Post!

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