#META!!!
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A tattoo of a pencil seems wrong somehow. Unless she did it with graphite instead of ink.
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\m/ ( `â _â´) \m/
You left off the âLâ.
Actually, I know a guy with a metal hip. Would that make him a metal hipster?
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this is why the terrorists hate us.
thereâs a hipster girl in lower manhattan with a pencil tattoo and her own pencil store.
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When I saw this, I instantly wanted to go there. I love a good pencil. Is it a sustainable business model? I donât know. Itâs certainly not my problem, though.
@japhroaig
Iâve considered making my own pencils. My girlfriend got me one of these, knowing that I love pencils. The lead is ultra thick and can only be sharpened by knife (or using the strip of sandpaper I glued to my desk leg for this purpose). Itâs a boutique product, not something I would buy for everyday use, but if I did make my own, Iâd make a range of thick lead pencils.
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File the following under WHY DID WE NOT THINK OF THIS WHEN WE WERE KIDS? I was too busy wondering what a no.1 and no.3 pencil were like. And now I know where I might find one.
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Sounds like the beef jerky store that opened in Los Alamitos, CA. It didnât have its own brand, but instead sold all brands and types of jerky. Then it opened a second location in Long Beach.
I did all I could to support it, partly because I felt kinship (I dreamed about opening a potato chip store during my college years). Sadly, the beef jerky stores are no more. Sniff.
If you donât want to schlepp to NY, (unless you live there) try your local art supply shop. Iâve bought them, and theyâre pretty neat, wear down fast though. Actually, if youâre looking for a dark, hard pencil, buy some Staedtler Noricas; theyâre cheap. I never really liked the Blackwings because the graphite is so reflective and metallic, the Norica is very dark and matte by comparison.
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If by âboutique productâ you mean an âincredibly common souvenir object available at most museums, historic villages, souvenir shops, indian reservations, truck stops, and many national parks up and down the East Coast (and probably else where)â. We bought dozens if not hundreds of pencils like that as kids, these are a arguably better finished, but its a pretty common thing to come by. In different lengths and gauges, colors etc. I remember my sister had one that was more than an inch in diameter. The graphite was like 1/4 inch across. Though my impression of its size may have be exaggerated by the fact that I was maybe 6 at the time. Iâm not sure why I kept buying them (probably because they were cheap), and I never liked using them. A bit like writing/drawing with a crooked carpenters pencil, they also had a tendency to split/break.
Nice!!
I was wondering how they were madeâbored/drilled or two pieces laminated, and I was right! Two pieces are glued together with the writing material inside grooves.
Sooo - are they going to get enough business to pay rent in Lower Manhattan?
Boutique is a weird word. It can insinuate class, sophistication, and originality. It just means small. Clicky pens from a casino are also âboutiqueâ items, because theyâre limited by nature. Itâs just French for âsmall shop,â and English speakers tend to take French loanwords too seriously. Actually, the first time I really started using the word in everyday speech was when I had a professor talk about the different kinds of law firms, âboutiqueâ just means small, private firm.
Weirdly, I learned how pencils were made when I was eight, from a textbook at my elementary school. It was an amazing book. I read it on my own at least three times, cover to cover. We only ever read one section from it, as a class. I donât even know why they made us put it in our desks. It was called Full Circle, and I wish I could find a copy as an adult. Ever since then, I occasionally find where the case was glued together and split the pencil to get at the graphite. Then I glue it back together again. Weird. I know, but itâs oddly meditative.
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Maybe an entry in the Who Can Go Out of Business First contest?
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Finally. Now I donât have to shlepp out to Williamsburg for all my pencil needs.
I was going to say - thatâs a lot of fucking graphite and cedar. Or whatever wood is used for pencilsâŚ
Apropos, perhaps someone can help this non-native speaker.
Is there an English word that has more or less the same dictionary definition as âartisanalâ but different connotations? In many settings that word is too charged to be very useful.
If you look it up in a German-English dictionary, then you will find âhandwerklichâ. However that one has every different connotations. It is all about pride in traditional blue-collar work, unpretentious quality, independent local craftsmenâŚ
Hand-crafted? It still has certain connotations, but it has the benefit of having an easily digested, literal meaning.
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Will they sell these?
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If that works the way it is supposed to, then it is pretty nice.
