Editing The Pen Addict 267/transcript (section)

== DC Pen Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm actually happy you're getting to go to a different pen show like DC. Yeah. You've been like, and we're going to talk about DC more during this episode, but just real quick, Myke has been peppering me like, what do I expect in DC? And I can't answer those questions accurately like I've been able to in the past because it's in a new hotel. So I feel like everything that I know is no longer. So I don't feel like I'm not that much help to you. I'm like, dude, I don't know. I think this is how it's going to be. Here's my assumptions, but I certainly don't know anything based on fact, based on the hotel move.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's part of the excitement of the whole thing, if you want to look at it that way. Or you can look at it as part of the horror.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I definitely don't look at it as the, wow, that really excites me. Let's upend this whole thing. Woo, I'm pumped. No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, it's the first time for me. So I have, you know, just the regular feelings, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we're going to talk about DC a lot in this episode. Yes. All right. I'll save my commentary.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We do have some other things that we want to talk about today. So why don't you set us off with those?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll save my commentary. Is it commentary or commentary? How do you say it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would say commentary, I think. Yeah. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I would like to commentary on the new issue of Plumbago that is coming out. I'm a huge fan of what the Erasable Guys do. And this is Andy, your buddy, Andy, Myke. My good friend. Your bestie. My good friend. My good friend, Andy. Andy Wellfleet is putting out issue two of his zine, which is about analog tools and pencils mostly. And I bought the first issue. Oh, gosh. I guess it's been like six months. It's been a while since it came out. And the response for Andy was overwhelming. Like he didn't print enough. Then I think he even printed a second run. And it's really like an old school zine mentality, which I've always been a fan of. That's actually, when I came up with the name Refill, I was thinking about a physical zine. But it ended up being the pen addict newsletter, which is better in my book. But I love zines as a format. And issue number two is coming out. And Andy's doing a pre-order this time. So everyone who wants it can get in on it. So I wanted to make sure to mention that. It's going to print soon. So they're going to eliminate pre-orders. I don't know the exact date it's going to end, but I think pretty soon. So we can get this going. But he's also got, you know, what the article list is like and everything you can expect in these issues. And it's a lot of work to put all this together. So thanks, Andy, for doing this. So y'all go support Plumbago issue number two. And we'll have a link in the show notes if you are not familiar.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It'll be right in there. Go and do it. And he is a very creative, wonderful person who I love dearly. And you should support him in his work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. And we'll talk about this in a couple of weeks as we get closer to San Francisco. But Andy, I'm trying to coordinate with him to make an appearance at the knock table so y'all can come and meet Andy. And he can sign autographs for you of Plumbago issue number two. Although it probably won't be out by then.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Although he'll sign them in pencil so they could just be erased. So that's a real problem.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, as long as you don't erase it, pencil does last forever, as our good friend Johnny Gamber likes to say. And he does have that one up there. As long as you don't erase it, it's not going anywhere. But yeah, don't get around it with an eraser. All right. So I did a post this week about a pen I love and a style of pen I love, which is pocket pen. And so I reviewed the Kaweco Lilliput brass ballpoint. And the question came up, which I never realized I haven't answered specifically. It was essentially, Brad, you always talk about pocket pens and why and that you use them all the time. But you've never said why. Why do you like pocket pens so much, Brad? And I thought that was an awesome question.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I said recently in the Pen Addict newsletter when I was talking about this actual Kaweco and how I lost it, which is part of the story. So you'll have to go read the review. I lost it. Then I found it. If I ever opened up a pen store of my own and I have no intention on doing so, it would just focus on pocket pens because I think it's such a good category of pens. It's so useful. And there's so many unique pens that fall in that category. And that's why I like them so much. I can get the quality of a great gel pen, the fine tip that I enjoy so much. I can get a fountain pen with a wide nib or a fine nib or get a nib modified that I move between different pens. And all of these fit in my pocket. Like they're easy to carry, easy to use. Unfortunately, they're easy to lose sometimes. So maybe that is a good business model, right? You'll have repeat customers until people get ticked off about, okay, I can't lose. I can't lose any more pens. But yeah, I love them because the style of the pocket pen is not something you find in normal pens, right? People do things, manufacturers do things differently with the pockets, pocket pens, whether that's unique materials, unique shape designs, unique retractable mechanisms. Sometimes, you know, sometimes they have to design their own to fit the smaller format pen. And I just think it's a really good playground for pens. And it ends up being useful. It's something I carry a pocket pen with me every day where I may not carry like a full size pen with me every day because I generally don't put the full size pen in a pants pocket. I'll want to clip it to my shirt. Well, maybe I'm just wearing a t-shirt and I want a pen to carry with me. So I'll take one of my pocket pens and put it in my shorts pocket, something like that. So in relation to this article, I took the six pens and one pencil, actually five pens and one pencil that I keep in this little area in my desk where all my pocket pens go, like my watch, you know, my wallet, my keys and my group of pocket pens for whichever one I want to grab. So I listed those out on the Instagram picture, which you might have seen. So you want to talk about those those few pens that I like so much?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I would love to because there's a couple that I don't know.