Tryphena... says 'LATESHIIIIFFFTTTTT'

00:11 / 01.12.03

"When you can take this Mont-Blanc out of my hand, then Grasshopper, I can teach you no more"

01:02 / 01.12.03

Ugh, I’m painting a little picture of Donald Rumsfeld, I don’t think I’d realised before what a fantastically ugly and evil looking face he has. His sticky-out chin makes him look like the wicked witch of the whitehouse.

By the by, I am using a brush to do this, not a pen, because I am a cultured and sensitive English fop

01:06 / 01.12.03

I imagine Donny Rumsfeld starting each day by going to the mirror and making an attacking bear pose while saying "Grrrr!", then sighing then going about his day.

I also use paints, even tjough I am an uncultured Canadian bonvivant.

Baz Auckland

01:13 / 01.12.03

"this is my mad face! Arrrr!"

...sorry. Stuck in library for the last time of semester. Paper must be written TONIGHT. (sigh). Hope everyone else is well. I must dive back into the 18th century for a few hours...

night all! Welcome Bed Head!

01:13 / 01.12.03

Paints? Paints with pens??!! Your power knows no bounds sir!

How the dickens do you make that work, or are you one of those fangled multi-disciplinary artists, straddling mediums like a colossus?

And yeah: "Bear face! Lemon face! Bear face! Lemon face! okay, lets blow something up"

01:15 / 01.12.03

Hello! Ten pages down, twelve pages to go, library server is down! Hotcha! Dead Norwegians, my friends, dead, bearded Norwegians.

I don't much care for Mont-Blanc, just based on size. I have wee hands, I might have to re-learn how to write with one of those broad little things. So I'll just leave it where it is. I'm actually a big fan of the Pilot Varsity, which is a disposable fountain pen. Writes broad, flip it over and write with the back of the nib to write narrow, I'm quite fond.

Everybody doing okay?

01:15 / 01.12.03

Hello! Jack Denfeld here! Hello! Tiger Army Never Die!!!! Arrrrgh!!

01:21 / 01.12.03

Hi Jack, Maz and a Hi/Bye! to Baz.

Maz: Ive never liked M.B.s either. The pens I love are the Pigma Custom Micron (or is it Micro?) cause they have the smallest damn nibs I've ever seen. .003mm... its like whispering with a penstroke.

Bed Head: I dont paint with pens. I paint with brushes and draw with pens. And Yes! I am one of those fangled multi-disciplinary artists, straddling mediums like a colossus?

01:27 / 01.12.03

Daaamn. The smallest Micron I ever had was .05. I didn't know they made one smaller.

There's a ginchy show on Discovery now, speaking of swords, called Extreme Martial Arts. They're showing the fan weapon now. In spite of the lame series title, it's really cool. The katana is coming up soon.

And speaking of cookies, which we weren't, white fudge oreos, mes chers, they are in season, and they do not run, so they are a prey I can easily hunt.

Ethan Hawke

01:29 / 01.12.03

man, i have to wait 22 days before I change my name back to "todd." Why am I so stupid?

Hi all. I was just trying to work on the barbelith notebook and broke my tool. Gotta get a new one.

01:30 / 01.12.03

I think I’m going to have to investigate the world of pens. There’s obviously more to it than I’d thought, I always figured pens were just, y’know, secondary to the silky majesty that is a good brush.

Are these dip pens?

01:32 / 01.12.03

go here:
http://www.gellyroll.com/products/pens/pigmamicron/pigmamicron.html

01:38 / 01.12.03

thanks man, I've seen a display that looks like that in my local artshop, I'm sure. Thats my mission for tomorrow. Monday will be pentastic

01:40 / 01.12.03

Then you too may add {I just bought pens!) to your name!

01:40 / 01.12.03

Do you write with your microns too, keggers, or reserve them for drawing purposes?

Perfect Tommy

01:43 / 01.12.03

I liked writing with microns, but they seem to dry out awfully damn fast. I do most of my writing with a type of rollerball pen which, inexplicably, has vanished from all the art and office supply stores in the last week.

01:44 / 01.12.03

I think I might just steal them. I dont like the evil witch who owns my local art shop. She boils up children to make glue, you know

01:46 / 01.12.03

My microns are strickly for art (and occasionaly magick). I use regular whatevers laying about the house pens for writting.

01:46 / 01.12.03

...Nothing wrong with that of course, but I dont think she deserves my custom

01:53 / 01.12.03

Pens suck!!!! It's all about pencils! It's all about the pencils baby!

01:56 / 01.12.03

Has anyone tried the Cross Ion? It's a gel pen, refillable, quite short, runs around twenty dollars. Seems like a bit of a sucker's game to me, but I'm not wholly adverse to the idea of a high quality gel. They do write smooth, even if they have a tendency to smear.

01:58 / 01.12.03

It's all about the pencils baby!

Sounds like fear of commitment to me, but the real question is what kind of pencils, Denfeld?

01:58 / 01.12.03

Oh Jack! Live in the now. Pencils are soo out of fashion. The woody wonders have past their prime. Ink is in!

01:59 / 01.12.03

Booooooooo! on the Cross Ion. What I wanna know is has anyone tried the no.2? The no.2 pencil sharpens great, and it's great for taking tests as well! You can erase your mistakes! Including picking pens over pencils! Hahahaha.

02:00 / 01.12.03

Im not much for trying new pens. 20$ for a peay too much for something that I'll ruin inside of a month.

02:01 / 01.12.03

that should be "20$ for a pen is way too much for something that I'll ruin inside of a month."

02:02 / 01.12.03

Yeah, economical reasons as well. You can beat the piss out of elementary students and take their pencils.

02:02 / 01.12.03

I guess us perfect people dont make mistakes and so dont need the crutch that an eraser offers.

02:04 / 01.12.03

try a Quill pen. they're free as long as you have the cunning to catch a swan

02:04 / 01.12.03

it's great for taking tests as well!

Sure, I mean, if you take those sissy multiple choice tests. A pencil on an essay? Bah. You'll have a hand covered in graphite before you hit page two, and your doubt and erasures will be your downfall. The use of a pen is an act of faith, by damn. It says, 'this idea is brilliance. Even if it is proven wrong, its elegance demands a permenance that no pencil can provide.'

Sorry. The dead Norwegian is getting to me.

02:06 / 01.12.03

It's not a crutch at all!!!! It's a wheelchair! A great big wheelchair of time travel! In which you can break your legs and sit in the wheelchair thereby breaking the mistakes you made in the past, like Barry Allen Flash! An eraser is a pencil's best friend, but a pen stands alone, like a smelly pair of underwear.

02:09 / 01.12.03

You young'uns will never learn. I still have the quill pen my grandmother used to take her tests in elementary school. I dont see your high falluting pencils lasting three generations!!!

02:10 / 01.12.03

The pen is mightier than the sword! And you can't beat that with a bat!

02:11 / 01.12.03

quill pens shouldnt last three generations, you should get a fresh one every day. Then your name could be Kegboy: scourge of neighbourhood swans