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Happy ^-^HalloweenM^-^

"^-^HalloweenM^-^"
By Lorretine @ Moleskinerie/FLICKR
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For your listening pleasure, may we recommend "Into the Land of Phantoms" ?
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Update: 3.50 P CST

The Brown truck just delivered the biggest Halloween treat ever...

Thanks to "Anonymous"

Philofaxy

"It hit me one day as I fumbled with the Device, attempting to translate arcane scribbles on its screen into recognizable text. I remembered the substance that had sustained me in ancient times. A substance that, alchemically combined with ink, could be manipulated in infinite ways. A substance that, depending on my mood, could be as strictly rule-bound as any computer or as free-form as an artist's canvas.

Paper.

I set aside the Device, and bought a Filofax.  And it was good.  No, great.

The Device now gathers dust, and the Filofax gathers no moss. I carry it with me around the house, to the bathroom, to the family room. I set it next to me in bed.

My relationship with the Filofax is in its infancy. My return to paper occurred in earnest only a couple weeks ago. But I have found there is very little on the internet in the way of planner-love. I know there are others out there, secretly laboring as members of my brotherhood. Planner-lovers, unite! You may be a devotee of Filofax, Day Timer, Day Runner, Franklin Covey, Exacompta, or wall calendars with photographs of puppies and kittens. It matters not. Rejoice in the experience of pen to paper. Rejoice in the use of alphabetic tabs. Rejoice in the critical decisions a planner maker must use: Week on a page? Week on two pages? Page-a-day? Notebook-size? Pocket-size? It's all glorious!..."

Philofaxy

VISIT

"The Orange and the Black"

"Being a little squeamish, I take another route -- the all orange-and-black dinner. Explanations for the traditional Halloween colors vary. Black is certainly the symbol of death while orange is probably a reflection of the fall harvest.

Setting the table for this holiday dinner is easy. Halloween paraphernalia starts showing up in stores toward the end of summer, and the choice is vast: spider web cocktail napkins, foam tabletop tombstones, pumpkin candleholders, wire trees with faces, black plastic spiders. You don't have to go any further than the corner drugstore.

 

For my table, I use an orange tablecloth, black napkins and black plates, all of which I got at yard sales. I have a $1.29 black plastic cauldron from the drugstore that I fill with an orange mum. I use orange tapers in glass candlesticks and votive candles shaped like candy corn and then, of course, sprinkle the table with real candy corn. At each guests place is a little orange and black plastic jack-o'-lantern full of black licorice sticks.

 

Appetizers can be baby carrots and orange pepper slices with a black olive tapenade; red fish roe or smoked salmon on squares of black bread; orange cheddar cheese encased in black rind with dark rye crackers or pumpernickel bread; black olives; blue corn tortilla chips (they look black) and red pepper hummus. If you want to go downscale: Cheetos...."

"The Orange and the Black"
Bonny Wolf
NPR

More: Halloween Tricks and Audio Treats

Write Like Jane Austen

"Paying homage to a favourite author can be a painful and tricky thing, so please don't suppose that this font, though made up out of characters written by Jane Austen, is really quite equal to her handwriting. Like every intelligent person, she commanded lots of varying letter forms, depending on the way those letters were connected, and their position in a given word. Her words are clearly diminishing towards the end. Her i-dots are flying around a good deal, but of course they never collide with other characters (which will happen inevitably, when they are fixed in a font), and, worst of all, her strokes will sometimes look rather blotchy and sometimes rather thin, depending on how many ink was in her pen at a given moment -- and had that pen been recently mended, or was it in urgent need of mending? -- so that it's next to impossible to decide on their intended broad- or thinness. However, creating something like an average image has been the aim of my font, and naturally, this has endowed it with the principal flaw of all typefaces: it's looking far too regular..."

Pia Frauss
Jane Austen Fonts

[via Bookworm]

Little Annie

"When poor Little Annie sat on her swing,
She never suspected a bite or a sting,
But Hazel's pet spider was hungry that day,
And pleased that dear Annie had come out to play!"

GOREY DETAILS

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Greetings to our friends in Santiago, London, Clyde, NC., Toulon,  Abu Dhabi,  St. Petersburg, RF,  Midvale, UT,  Ramsis, Kampala, Moscow, Bangkok, Guaynabo, Bermuda, Dublin and...Transylvania^ _^

AFK*: Chicago Botanic Garden

"Please stay on path. Thank you."

Images: ABF
*AFK: Away From Keyboard

As part of our 2nd Anniversary celebrations (1.12.06 ) Moleskinerie is launching "Moleskine Notes", a series of essays by Moleskine users around the world starting next month. To be considered, write an essay (500-1000 words) on your Moleskine experience and email it to us. Put "MOLESKINE NOTES ENTRY" as subject. If chosen, you will receive a gift from Moleskinerie. We look forward to reading your story soon!   

Birthday greetings to our friends @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT:

John Harrigan October 27, Patrick Gage Kelley October 28, Stephan Lamprecht October 29,  Ben Turley October 30, Lauren S November 01, Rob O'Keefe November 03 and Lise Sutherland-Fraser November 05.

Get out, have a life - and write about it! Be back on Monday.

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- Sorbile is selling 2 unopened Moleskines over at LJ. Check it out.

Oh Feltrinelli!

"People have been reporting sightings of this little red book that can only be found in Italy. It is a special edition done for la Feltrinelli and finally I got it! Thanks to a kind lady over there who found a copy from her office and sent it over for me. I appreciate a lot Monica! The copy I got was #14981 obviously a limited special edition just for Feltrinelli. The red color is extraordinarily bright and on the cover there is the Feltrinelli logo embossed. It is a "Weekly Notebook 2005-6" different from the existing one, which the week view is on the left page and lined note on the right. So far I've seen special editions done for corporates such as Moet, Siena University (image here) but this is by far the most outstanding in terms of color and configuration. I have confirmation from Modo&Modo that this special format is going to be all over the world in 2006-7"

Patrick Ng
moleskinearrt.com

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MY MOLESKINE EXHIBITION

Here's your last chance to see "My Moleskine Exhibition" in Japan.

Date:OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 31
The exhibition is spread over five different locations :
■ Aoyama Book Center
■ Libro Aoyama
■ Nadiff (Aoyama)
■ Tower Records Shibuya 7F TOWER BOOKS
■ Tsutaya Tokyo Roppongi

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Wil Lau

"Prepping for the HK/Shanghai trip in Nov and I've decided to go with the workhorse L2K. Versatile, holds a tone of ink and not too flashy for customs.

If for any reason I end up returning without it, it's probably the most "replacable" of pens in the current collection.

I am not so confident about the Visconti travelling ink pot. As recommended, I've test filled the Lamy with water a few times without incident. Tested one final time with ink and it worked great. It's the whole capping mecha that seems a bit unsecure. Wonder how cool it'll look when it's wrapped in a Glad sandwich bag for insurance?

[Moleskine journal and 1:500 Herpa Southwest Boeing 737 in background]"

"L2K / Visconti Travelling Ink Pot"
Wil Lau @ FLICKR
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