Once, faced with a book marked with underlines, I thought hard about just underlining the whole thing, so I could approach it from a neutral place.

A bottle of Pelikan “Edelstein” ink with a Blackwing pencil inexplicably dunked in it.

Various stationery items and an invite to a pop-up shop on Feb. 28.

TO~NITE: the Philly Pen Circle will meet (6:30 pm), valiantly battling the elements—Landmark Americana, 34+Market; on Saturday, our little pop-up shop does a *make-up day* from noon to 6 pm. Hope to see ye.

Note: the shop’s usual Brompton sales + service will continue on Sat + Sun during the pop-up!

Who is Sean Strickland?

Post card, Pilotfountain pen, Waterman’s ink bottle, Rhodia notebook .

THIS VERY WEEKEND: a pen, paper + post card POP-UP, tucked right inside @trophybikes.bsky.social

You must also purchase a toast rack—then you’re all set!

ABOLISH ICE. You can’t rein in Dachau guards. Say it, @schumer.senate.gov — or STEP DOWN.

SNOW DAY NOTICE: after last week’s freeze-out, we’re meeting on MONDAY, FEB 2, at TEN STONE , 21 st + South Sts. ••• Starts at 6:30; bring some @phillypenshow stuff to flaunt, and/or Share The Wealth goodies to give away, maybe.

SNOW DAY NOTICE: post last week’s freeze-out, we’re meeting MON., FEB 2, at TEN STONE , 21 st + South Sts. •• Starts 6:30; bring some @phillypenshow stuff to flaunt, and/or Share The Wealth goodies to give away, maybe. OH, +cold weather is Letter Weather; bring stamps, envelopes + yr favwords. @whyy

He keeps referring to Greenland as Iceland.
His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.

This lightly-organized club for people who like people who like ink, pens, and paper Meets Monthly at 6:30 p.m. We oscillate between Mondays + Tuesdays! @wkdu @trophybikes @pilotpenusa

First Quarter Schedule for the Philly Pen Circle!

Are we?

If you didn’t make it, no worries! Next Philadelphia Paper Planners Commission meeting is SAT, Jan. 2, 2027.

A few tiny plastic people are resting on a @hobonichi TECHO planner. On 1/3/2026, we invite users of actual paper organizers to a meeting up stairs at Fergies Pub. Starts promptly at 1 p.m.

Paper covers screen. Rock breaks phone. Scissors cut cord. • On SAT , Jan. 3, 2026, at 1 PM, Bring your 2025 *paper-based* planner (agenda/diary/calendar etc) to Fergies Pub (1214 Sansom St., 2nd Fl.) We’ll review the past 12 months, eat lunch in the present, and ink in some goals for 2026.

Here’s a bottle of Edelstein TANZANITE Ink, and the 1Q sked for the Philly Pen Cirvle.

OK: Philly Pen Circle meetups for Jan-Feb-Mar are inked in! Bring a pen and a friend!

But it won’t be the last.

Greetings— but, geez all those books … with the spines turned so we can’t add more books to our must check out list, ha. (If you get around to it, but pay me no mind)

Big sale of pens, ink, postcards, journals, more; inside Trophy Bikes, 12/20-21. 133 S 23rd St. 10am to 5 pm.

Over at the Bike Shop, we’re hosting a Pop-UP of everything that ain’t AI: fountain pens, post cards, ink, journals, stationery and so on! Sat+Sun, 10-5. OH, and the incred @phillyprfm is right up the street from us. Hit two shops in one swoop.

On Dec. 20 + 21, come check out thousands of new + vintage POST CARDS, hundreds of fine FOUNTAIN PENS, gallons of beautiful INKS, and towering stacks of STATIONERY in Philly, right near the PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET.

It’s a little analog stationery bash, inside a bike shop, just a block from the @phillyprfm !

Empty bottle of ink, SAILOR fountain pen, and a *reminder* that the next Philly Pen Circle Meetup is Tuesday, 25 November (6:30 pm)at the Cherry Street Tavern. (At 22nd Street)

Ink ‘em if you got em! OH, and consider a visit to the Pen,Paper+PostCard POP-UP on Dec. 20-21, inside @trophybikes , with @federalistpens.bsky.social !

PEN CIRCLE MEETS MONTHLY!

Two more Philly Pen Circle meet-ups in 2025. Bring a pen and a pal!

GOOD GRIEF—it’s time for another Meet Up today at TEN STONE, 21+South St.; drift on in around 6:30 is the basic idea. @fitlerfocus

There is a dinky little pen+paper club meeting monthly: 7/29 (tues) at Fergies 1214 Sansom• 8/25 (mon) at Paris Baguette 3816 Chestnut • 9/30 (tues) Ten Stone 21st + South. All meetings start at 6:30 p.m. • Bring a pen and a friend.

Get it in writing, say we!

PHILLY PEN CIRCLE next meetup us Mon., 23 June, 6:30 pm, at Ten Stone, 21 + South Sts.

We recently decided to “oscillate” the Pen Circle – doing Monday one month, then a Tuesday, then a
Monday, etc., so that people have a better chance of being free

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

PEN MEETUPS! • Tues., 5/20 is PhillyPenCircle - 6:25 PM at PHO STREET, 2104 Market 🖋️ Sat., 5/31 is PhillyPenCollectorsGroup at the KIBITZ ROOM KofP, Noon. Details/RSVP on FB ( philadelphiapens )

PEN MEETUPS! • Tues., 5/20 is PhillyPenCircle - 6:25 PM at PHO STREET, 2104 Market 🖋️ Sat., 5/31 is PhillyPenCollectorsGroup at the KIBITZ ROOM KofP, Noon. Details/RSVP on FB ( @philadelphiapens )

Pen Circle meets 4/28 at 222 S. 40th St. (6:25 pm or so)

1) Yes, we taped a Philly Pen Circle flyer inside a trash can at the Drexel Flea Market [till 4pm,didn’t see any pens, lots of ephemera] . 2) Our April meetup (4/28) is in a new spot! GREEK LADY, 222 S. 40th, from approx. 6:25 p.m. @phillypenshow @kellywritershouse

AH, so here’s the 2Q Sked for the Philly Pen Circle: 4/28~GREEK LADY 222 S. 40th St. • 5/20~PHO STREET 2104 Market St. • 6/23~TEN STONE 21st + South Streets. ALL START at 6:25 p.m.

Have sold 5 or 6 brands of “folder” bike (since 2000) and now carry only B; the quality of some competitors is better these days—until the fold/unfold. I feel the extraordinary ease of folding action has *still* not been truly marketed by Brompton.

This statue of Lincoln on the edge of Kelly Drive in Fairmount Park is a fave, since he was a great, concise pen-wielder.

Words, then pics, we always say.