Bringing Sexy Back
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Posted by Blake the Megalomaniac (Follow Me)- Blake the Megalomaniac is a graduate of Virginia Tech and now lives the Adams Morgan section of Washington DC. - To see more posts by this author click here |
Call me desperate for inspiration or grasping for a topic but I found myself contrasting the upside of the pencil compared to the pen at work today and I’m thinking I want to bring the pencil back.
The pencil is somewhat of a workplace faux pas similar to how being sexy was a social faux pas until Justin Timberlake brought it back. I guess this post makes me the JT of writing utensils then? Lets get it on.
The typewriter (remember the typewriter), the antitheses of the computer, is completely outdated technology, so for me to sit here and argue for it would be an exercise in futility. The pen’s merits, however abundant they may be, overshadow the pencil so much so that we forget how pragmatic the lead-based product actually is.
Most people think of elementary school and multiple guess scantron exams when they muse over (got that term from the thesaurus) pencils. Many of you, depending on how well you did in the first 16 years of your schooling, may have fond memories of the #2 pencil. To you achievers it represents an accension up the social strata that is academia ultimately ending with the securing of a recession proof job. To the rest of us quarter-aged minions who did just enough achieving to get by, the pencil made no indelible mark.
To me the pencil simply stands for free will. It stands for change. The work of a pen cannot be undone similar to hurtful words spoken to a lover; once they’ve been spoken the damage is done and they cannot be taken back. The pencil’s margin for era is vast and being the careless, lackadaisical soul that I am that margin needs to be vast. Although the pen makes things like signatures and initials official the pencil doesn’t relate to those pretensions and is fine being the preferred tool of the practical and efficient.
Food for thought? udothedishes . . .
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I still get all warm and gooey inside when I smell a pencil.. It brings me back to elementary school where the only stress you had was when you had two friends with birthday parties on the same day and you had to choose just one….OH NO!!!
i’m a lefty so i hate pencils. there was nothing worse than writing in elementary school til my little hands were cramped only to get points taken off for having a messy paper as my hand would smudge the pencil as i’d write.
the only advantage to the pencil, is pencil fighting
Typewriters are still very valuable in the practice of notarization.
in response to stacks’ comment in re pencil fighting: i once broke a pen with a pentech classic. my skills were that nice. no bully.
S-Dott we all know you have super-human powers, stop rubbing it in… geeeeezzz
wait til u have kids blake, then pencils will come full-force back into your life