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Notebook Review: Quo Vadis Keith Haring Artist Series by Rants of The Archer on Nov 20, 2011I have a lot of notebooks. I actually have an insane number of them inside my 'notebook cabinet'. While some are from my impulse buys, most of them came from my silent sponsors, as samples for review. I'm fascinated by colorful things, but I have alw...

Notepad Review: Rhodia dotPad by Rants of The Archer on Jan 25, 2011Sometime in spring last year, Rhodia introduced a new addition to their line of notepads, and they called it the dotPad. dotPads are "functional black stapled notepads with a dot grid." Yes, the dotPad has dots – not lines, just dots – tiny,...

Ink Review: J. Herbin 1670 Ink by Rants of The Archer on Nov 4, 2010Red was your colour. If not red, then white. But red Was what you wrapped around you. Blood-red. Was it blood? Was it red-ochre, for warming the dead? Haematite to make immortal The precious heirloom bones, the family bones. - Ted Hughes, 'Red' Kare...

Ink Review: J. Herbin Poussière de Lune by Rants of The Archer on Apr 9, 2010The moon shines down on a sleeping lizardLittle fish rain down from the sky. Outside the window there are soldiersSteeling themselves to die. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore I'm back to blogging, reviewing, and writing after a long absence. An...

Quo Vadis Habana Notebook: A Review by Rants of The Archer on Nov 10, 2009Here is the Quo Vadis Habana notebook from the kind people at Exaclair, Inc. Those close to me know how much I love pens and notebooks. I always have a lot of both – in my backpack, on my office table, on my work table at home; even my closet has...

Happy Halloween! by Rants of The Archer on Oct 31, 2009I have always wanted to write something for Halloween but didn’t know for sure what to blog about. For an Addams Family fan and an aspiring mortician like I am, it should be a comfortable topic, but I'm still left scrounging for ideas. I don’t ha...

Inks on Review: J. Herbin Rouge Opera and Bleu Pervenche by Rants of The Archer on Oct 15, 2009When I started using a fountain pen, I only had one ink color in mind: black. After I found a bottle of old washable black Parker Quink at a brick and mortar shop here in Los Banos, it worked fine for me. The fine-nibbed maroon Parker Vector and bott...

Christmas in September by Rants of The Archer on Oct 8, 2009My first Rhodia: Rhodia No. 10, from Exaclair's Bastille Day inks offer. Oh, sure, it's that small, and that's a regular teacup. :)September has been another hectic and trying month for me. A lot of things went on at the same time, and all equally re...