phillypencircle

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.

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?

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: 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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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 !

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

Get it in writing, say we!

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 )

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.

Words, then pics, we always say.