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Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch, a Singular Sensation – PPC

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Pencils and Pop Culture: Marvin Hamlisch, a Singular Sensation The music world lost one of its greats this week with the unexpected passing of songwriter, composer and musician Marvin Hamlisch. Once called, "The Fastest Pencil in the Country"…
Pomp and Circumstance

Pomp and Circumstance… and Pencils – PPC

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Pencils and Pop-Culture: Pomp and Circumstance... and Pencils All right readers, hands up – who’s been watching the Olympics this summer? For my part, I know I’ve been glued to the screen, soaking in all of the pomp and circumstance and…
pencils and hope

Pencils and Pop Culture: You Can’t Erase Hope

Pencils and Pop Culture: You Can't Erase Hope I had a lot on my mind sitting down to write this week's "Pencil and Pop Culture," since frankly, it's not the happiest time in the pop culture world. You don't need my take on what happened…
DIY crafts

Crafting Your Way to DIY Greatness – PPC

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Pencils and Pop-Culture: Crafting Your Way to DIY Greatness While channel-surfing the other night, I happened to stumble on TLC’s latest reality competition series, “Craft Wars.” Now, I’m not much of a DIY-er myself – I always seem…

Silence – the Ultimate Form of Expression? — PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: Silence - The Ultimate Form Of Expression? On this blog, we talk about expression - creative expression, expressing yourself, expressive gestures, expressions that have passed from the common vernacular. You name it,…

Bradbury lit the spark of imagination – PPC

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…

Queen Elizabeth and the Diamond Jubilee Pencil – PPC

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?…

The Pencil, Always in Style – PPC

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…
sport of kings

The Sport Of Kings, The Hat of Blackwings – PPC

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…
Blackwing pencils

Stop the Presses: Blackwings in the Wild! – PPC

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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…