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Stipula Fountain pen
Got this pen on Valentine's Day, two weeks ahead was on sale on Ebay. This is the Passaporto by Stipula a tiny pen(can't tell by the picture), it fills with an eyedropper and been writing for five hours and doesn't exhaust the ink, huge reservoir and filled it with brown Pelican ink(I am partial to violet and brown) the color of the skin, the color ( Read more... ) -
A Day of Tea!
I remember when I bought this the date on it and I use it everyday almost sometimes more than once a day. I bought this with a book of Bede Griffiths and a straw porkpie hat that I used back then but had bought others since then that fit better with what I am wearing. I drink English tea, but not exclusively oolong and I had green tea just now. ( Read more... ) -
Have a Fun August
Before July ends like to say that on July 3 was Jim Morrison(already mentioned Morrison earlier)death as well as Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones who died in 1968. Jones was a very talented guy ~ that with Bill Wyman made a great psychedelic era Stones. Wyman had a great album which I occasionally listen to Monkey Grip. Here is the end of a very ( Read more... ) -
Classical Radio an Easy Listening Station
There were just playing recorder music on the radio, wow I seldom hear that, they said it was a primitive instrument. Recorders some of these can be extremely expensive, so one has to be wacked out of their minds to spend a few grands on a recorder, professional one. I have a very expensive Gibson mandolin. You never hear classical mandolin on the ( Read more... ) -
Michael McClure
Michael McClure (a friend of Richard Brautigan, also a mentor and friend of Jim Morrison with Morrison he wrote The Mad Club in Sunset Blvd(I also happen to live there one day too in California, but mostly in LA, as a child)Morrison's which death was July 3, 1971 ( Read more... ) -
Dreams Good and Bad
I never have bad dreams, must be my life doesn’t have lots of money to lose. I live with just enough to get by and have all my strings( little expenses) I have a used car from the early 90’s so I don’t have that expense which be very difficult. I can’t eat out or see a movie for that would break the budget, haven’t had bad nightmares on not having ( Read more... ) -
Strange Sleeper
Strange sleeper ( Read more... ) -
Summer Once Again
Ever since I was young enough to read I got into world religions and Zen and Vedanta in particular. My music has flowed from these wellspring as it was greatly admired by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood and the Alan Watts which I read everything he wrote at one time. I am here at school with a few copies of American Poetry Review which I ( Read more... ) -
Jack Kerouac List of Essentials
Belief & Techniques For Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac ( Read more... ) -
Fountain Pens
I love writing with a oblique double broad fountain pen of Pelican. With the Pelicans pens you can change the nibs and buy new ones. This is a Pelican 100 and is a calligraphy pen of 1.5, 2.0, but bought a oblique double broad, changed with the help of Pendemonium at 15 dollars. The pen was bought at an art store for less than 30 dollars a decade ( Read more... )