by P. M. Starr | Jun 30, 2025 | Brown, Bullet Journaling, Fountain Pens, Gold, Green, Influences, Inspiration, Journaling, Lamy, Lists, My Colors, My Experience, My Fountain Pens, My Spaces, Parker, Planning, Quotations & Excerpts, To-Do Lists, Wisdom
BuJo Poetry To-Dos: Song of Myself I’m not hardcore into bullet-journaling, but I have incorporated some BuJo techniques and formatting ideas into crafting my to-do lists. I *am* into Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, though. Especially Song of Myself. Memorizing and...
by P. M. Starr | Jun 28, 2025 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, BRANDS, Fountain Pens, In the Media, Montblanc, Movies, Parker
I have a minor obsession with noting, inspecting, and capturing stills of fountain pens appearing on TV and in movies, and trying to identify them. This particular fountain pen’s appearance in a film is pretty easy to ID: Mont Blanc grail pen featured...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 27, 2025 | Colors, Green, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Parker, Robert Oster
Ryde Green Ink Refill Day February 27th, 2025 – Thor’s Day Time to refill the cartridges in two of my favorite vintage Parker Vector fountain pens: 50 mL bottle of Robert Oster Signature Ink next to vintage Parker Vector fountain pens Being that it’s...
by P. M. Starr | Jan 7, 2025 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Famous Pens and Pleasure Writing, Markers, My Collection, Philosophy, Red, Sharpie, Under $10
Here we are, January 2025, diving into another year and another term of profoundly absurd not-greatness. In “honor” or just plain recognition of that fact, I picked up some fresh Sharpies. I mean … it’s not ALL bad, signing your name BOLDLY...
by P. M. Starr | Jun 29, 2024 | Aesthetics & Style, BRANDS, cartridge, Ink, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Packaging & Presentation, Pilot, Purple
Purple Pilot Ink Splurged on my first taste of Pilot’s high-end Iroshizuku fountain pen ink: Beautiful new box of 6 Pilot Iroshizuku ink cartridges: $14 – MSRP > $11.20 @Goldspot.(Don’t worry; PleasureWriting.com is NOT actually printed on the...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 22, 2024 | Fountain Pens, My Experience, paper, Parker, Pink, Taccia
Discovered the pleasure of bringing a fountain pen with me on walk to the library, but no notebook. Relying instead on those tiny thin wafers of white paper, cramming as many pretty words as I could copy from a book of poetry I thought would make me want to barf...
