Pencils and Pop-Culture: Bradbury Lit the Spark of Imagination The passing of Ray Bradbury yesterday at the age of 91 fills me with a certain kind of nostalgic sadness. His writings, from “Fahrenheit 451” to “The October Country” to “Dandelion Wine” were enormously influential on me as a young reader. I first read “Fahrenheit 451” […]
Pencils and Pop-Culture: Queen Elizabeth and the Diamond Jubilee Pencil Hail Britannia, PPC followers! It’s time for Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the II of England, and I will fully admit that I have a case of Jubilee fever (Jubifever? Feverlee? I’ll work on it). Yes, I was one of those crazy Americans who stayed […]
Mad Men Water Cooler – “The Other Woman” “Mad Men,” I don’t know if I can handle you. I will fully admit that last night’s episode was probably one of the hardest to watch. However, for me it was also the strongest episode of the season. It’s hard to find some element of writing or design […]
Mad Men Water Cooler – “Christmas Waltz” Welcome to this week’s “Mad Men” Water Cooler! Every week we take a look at the creative aspects of one of television’s most talked-about shows. The following discussion contains spoilers for this week’s episode, so if you want to remain unspoiled, hop in your Jaguar and speed away… […]
Pencils and Pop-Culture: The Pencil, Always in Style I’ve written before about the inherent seductive qualities of pencils. However, for all my admiration of pencil skirts and, in limited instances, pencils mustaches, I had never seen just how high-fashion a pencil could be. Enter Mary Katrantzou from Canada. I enjoy a good issue of Vogue […]
Mad Men Water Cooler – “Lady Lazarus” Welcome to this week’s edition of our “Mad Men” Water Cooler! Beyond this point, spoilers be waiting, so if you read on, beware, beware … Often a recap talks about the events of an episode, without addressing all that comes before – in this case, the title. “Lady Lazarus” […]
Pencils and Pop-Culture: The Sport of Kings, the Hat of Blackwings Today and tomorrow mark the 138th Annual Kentucky Derby, America’s tribute to the sport of kings. Now, there is nothing about me that could be described as “posh.” I don’t know anyone named Muffy or Bitsy. My driveway doesn’t have a ‘Benz; it has […]
Mother’s Day and Memory We’ve written a lot about the importance of a things that are hand-written over the last year, from thank-you notes to autographs, music lyrics and love-letters. It may sound hack-y when I say that I truly believe a hand-written letter is one of the best gifts you can give someone, but […]
Welcome to the Studio 602 “Mad Men” water cooler, where spoilers reign! If you haven’t seen last night’s episode, we suggest you join the lobsters dancing in a row as they shuffle off to Buffalo at the Codfish Ball… Mad Men Water Cooler – “At the Codfish Ball” Two things before we begin: -Does anyone […]
Pencils and Pop-Culture: Blackwings in the Wild! Usually I reserve this space as a spot to muse on pencils and pop culture on a broad scale. However, lately our Palomino Blackwing and Palomino Blackwing 602 pencils have been popping up in some pretty cool places, lending themselves to a pencils and pop culture round up […]
