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truepennyFrom the department of OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11!1!!!:
My fountain pen pr0n is totally on crack this quarter. Aside from Delta's Lucky Pen (complete with detachable "carno-pepperocino" charm) and Omas's Chateau Lafite Rothschild (pen-body made from the oak used for the casks in which Lafite Rosthschild is kept) and Monteverde's Perma Pen ("Luxury Refillable Permanent Marker"), FPH brings me news of Krone's Custer Limited Edition Pen, complete withrelics a fragment of Custer's personal powder horn and "a fragment of bead from one of Sitting Bull's camps" sealed in the cap. "Side by side, these artifacts are tied together as Custer and Sitting Bull were in life and legend."
(I really want to protest on Sitting Bull's behalf. How sharper than a serpent's tooth, to be stuck playing second fiddle in the popular imagination to the enemy you defeated.)
The sterling silver fountain pen is $4,800 (the rollerball $4,700), and if you want to go all out and celebrate G. A. Custer with the rose gold fountain pen, you can do so for $10,300. No, I didn't mistype that.
So here you have the chance to glorify both the genocidal policies of the American government in the nineteenth century and the leader of a famously massacred force, all in one pen! Let's cheer Custer for going out and getting all of his men killed!
(Please note hyperbole for effect. I know the Battle of the Little Bighorn, like any battle, was rather more complicated than that.)
I cannot imagine spending almost $5000 to commemorate Custer, of all people. I just ... I can't get there from here.
Buffalo Bill he said good-bye to the boys
Said they're spilling blood
And taking scalps
And making a joyful noise
Make a joyful noise
He said I'm off to fight the Indians
And take a little off the top
When I get home we'll all dress up
And ride around the old big top
Around the old big top
--Jeffrey Foucault
"Pearl Handled Pistol"
My fountain pen pr0n is totally on crack this quarter. Aside from Delta's Lucky Pen (complete with detachable "carno-pepperocino" charm) and Omas's Chateau Lafite Rothschild (pen-body made from the oak used for the casks in which Lafite Rosthschild is kept) and Monteverde's Perma Pen ("Luxury Refillable Permanent Marker"), FPH brings me news of Krone's Custer Limited Edition Pen, complete with
(I really want to protest on Sitting Bull's behalf. How sharper than a serpent's tooth, to be stuck playing second fiddle in the popular imagination to the enemy you defeated.)
The sterling silver fountain pen is $4,800 (the rollerball $4,700), and if you want to go all out and celebrate G. A. Custer with the rose gold fountain pen, you can do so for $10,300. No, I didn't mistype that.
So here you have the chance to glorify both the genocidal policies of the American government in the nineteenth century and the leader of a famously massacred force, all in one pen! Let's cheer Custer for going out and getting all of his men killed!
(Please note hyperbole for effect. I know the Battle of the Little Bighorn, like any battle, was rather more complicated than that.)
I cannot imagine spending almost $5000 to commemorate Custer, of all people. I just ... I can't get there from here.
Buffalo Bill he said good-bye to the boys
Said they're spilling blood
And taking scalps
And making a joyful noise
Make a joyful noise
He said I'm off to fight the Indians
And take a little off the top
When I get home we'll all dress up
And ride around the old big top
Around the old big top
--Jeffrey Foucault
"Pearl Handled Pistol"
