Editing The Pen Addict 54/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pen Geeks ==


'''Ana Reinert:''' Oh, I was going to say the review on Fountain Pen Geeks was actually by Aziza, who is somebody that I follow a lot on Twitter. She does some great fountain pen reviews and stuff too. So if anybody hasn't read her yet, we will – I'll find her website and put it in the show notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's gourmetpens.com. Aziza is a great friend of Pen Addict. She does some awesome reviews. And now that you say that, we're going to have to get her on this show. Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' She's on Fountain Pen Geeks podcast now. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And she does some of the fountain pens TV and all that stuff. So they're doing a good job over there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really like her Instagram.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. She does a good job. And she's the one – I give her a hard time because I guess it was her husband that gifted her every color of Oro Shizuku ink. And it was like the coolest thing ever. She like took a picture of every bottle like on the shelf. I was like, oh my gosh.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I saw the pictures but I didn't hear the explanation for how she acquired all of those.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. I think her husband – I don't know if it was a birthday or anniversary present or something. But that was one of the coolest things I've seen on her blog. I was like, wow. Now that's a gift.

'''Ana Reinert:''' That's impressive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's cool. So I've got this Tomo River paper and it looks silly. It looks ridiculous. And it's just getting rave reviews. I've got to try it. So I will work on a review for it. You know, it doesn't come in any other format right now other than like these loose leaf sheets like you see in their review. And I know there's someone that's buying these and binding them into journals and things like that. I forget his name. But I'll put it in the show notes if I can think of it. And he's – Julie at pens, paper, inks, whatever has done a review of this product, this journal that this guy is making with this Tomo River paper. But anyway, if any listeners out there have used the Tomo, I'd like to hear – shoot me an email or a tweet and just let me know your feedback on it, what you think of it and how it's doing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So one thing you mentioned just a second ago, Ana, was the hand lettering. And I wanted to mention his name, and I'm blanking on it. But there's – I know I follow someone I've had conversations with on Twitter several times, one of the calligraphers at Hallmark. Is it Josh?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, Josh Scruggs.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Josh Scruggs, yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' He's actually one of the type development designers at Hallmark. So he actually takes – he does his own hand lettering, but he also takes lettering that other people have done and converts it into fonts. So we actually have our own font development team, which is my dream job.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So – yeah, that's pretty cool. Just saying.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll tweet Josh. But he's a super nice guy. Yeah. And he's active on Twitter. So I'll find his Twitter name. We'll put that in the show notes. I'll go stalk him. But Josh is a good guy. And he's done some stuff for JetPens years ago doing some calligraphy samples and things like that. So he's a really good guy. Really good guy.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, he does beautiful lettering.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So another thing, and you mentioned it, and we mentioned it before last week when we were just talking on our own, that one thing that's difficult, and it came up earlier talking about index cards, you mentioned Post-it notes.