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While looking around at metafilter I found a link to Emeril vs. Cthulhu. Don’t tell Terence Chua or we’ll get a Cthulhu cooking filk.

Yes, I’ve fallen prey to the fad that’s sweeping the “blogosphere,” (see this metafilter page, for example) Moleskine notebooks. They actually are quite nice notebooks, and at roughly $11, not particularly expensive. Nice paper nicely bound, page-marker ribbon, handy little pocket in the back (keep a guitar pick in there and you’ll always have one, until you forget to put it back), and that nifty elastic band to hold it shut. I carry one with me, keep one in my car for expense recording and travel notes, and keep one by my bed as a dream journal.

It is handy to have a notebook with me. I now have a place for notes! No more buildup of bits of paper with book titles or URLs or grocery lists on them. It is also a place to record ideas and make note of interesting events in my life.

Naturally, I needed a small pen to carry with me to make use of the notebook. I bought a Lamy Pico. This cost me $33, making it the most expensive pen I’ve ever bought even if it is pretty cheap by luxury German pen standards. It is nicely made, as you’d hope, and has a clever retraction mechanism that extends the pen to about 12cm when writing and a compact 9cm closed. It is all too easy to loose, however. It has already spent the better part of a week lost under my girlfriend’s recliner.

Barnes and Noble sell Moleskines, but that is a shockingly unromantic place to buy them. If you live in the Milwaukee area you must see Broadway Paper, on 191 North Broadway in the 3rd Ward. It is an amazing store. Need some of those little boxes Chinese take-out food comes in? In colors? They’ve got ‘em. Be sure to go to the bathroom while you’re there. I don’t know about the Lady’s, but they have possibly the nicest public men’s room I’ve ever seen.

I bought my Pico at Daly’s Pen Shop, located in the Grand Avenue Mall in Milwaukee. This store is also a must-see, at least if you are the sort who must see a pen store. It is a very nice store with a great selection and very friendly staff.

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