56 Going to the Mountain

In today’s episode, we will be talking about strange things afoot in the ink world and apparently all things Mont Blanc.AcquisitionsJohn- New Super Orange Mark One from Studio NeatPostal BulletinKatharine Graham (1917–2001)United States Postal Service300th Anniversary Station (Barrington, not the USPS)Happy Birthday, Barrington!Noodler’s Anti-Semitic AnticsControversial earlier this year This week’s label issue, not noticed since about ‘18-’19 Noodler’s Statment Goulet Statement Anderson Pens and Atlas Stationers are also dropping Noodler’s New Ink namesKeeping Oregon Strange(r)Letter writing is getting expensive in the UK.Can writing a letter help you get the winning bid for a house?  It can again now.The Mont Blanc monolith has been spotted in GermanyAnd Mont Blanc in Kenya (130,000 KES = 1,119.53 USD)NERD Alert! It’s a Jony Ives article and his favorite toolshttps://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/09/jony-ive-essential-tools-designing/https://trendfool.com/business/jony-ive-chooses-the-12-tools-of-his-trade/https://www.ft.com/content/b73731f5-7563-4ff3-9c78-a226643b4648 https://hwebber.co.uk/product-category/c-s-osborne-leather-working-tools/edgers-creasers-bone-folders/https://www.montegrappa.com/en/cluster/fattoperte/myfirstmontegrappa/fortuna/https://shop.mitutoyo.co.uk/web/mitutoyo/en_GB/mitutoyo/01.05.05/Universal%20Bevel%20Protractor/index.xhtml