The best sentences I read this week: vol. 2

“The condensed version: In event of evacuation Casey ‘will be afforded a room that is pet tamper proofed and allowed to exercise.’ ”

Magician ordered to pull rabbit disaster plan out of his hat after he was forced to buy special bunny licence by Joe O’Connor

“When I’m putting pen to paper, though, there are no distractions. It’s just me and the ink.”

I Write All My Blog Posts Out Longhand, and You Should Too by Justin Peters

“If you’re some sort of Slugworth type looking for a Field Notes mole, he’s probably a good person to talk to, because he seems nice and wide-eyed and trusting.”

Welcome, Tyler! by Bryan Bedell

“Offering an all-American alternative to the popular Moleskine line, the Field Notes brand speaks more to the inner lumberjack than to the hipster artiste.”

Cooper-Hewitt

Writing it down

I came home after a long day and found a package waiting for me. My first thought was oh no what did order recently (I have a history of online shopping) and after wracking my brain nothing came to mind. Then I looked a little closer and noticed Field Notes stamp on the box and gleefully opened up my latest subscription shipment.

Field Notes subscriptions mean that you pay up front to get a quarterly shipment of notebooks made using experimental techniques, designs or materials for a year. Not to be outdone by new and wonderful notebooks Field Notes includes little extras like pens, a 2012 calendar and a delightful box for this quarter’s “National Crop” edition complete with poster and badge (of the boy scouts variety).

It is not just little bonuses and great pens (their pens are truly wonderful to write with) that make Field Notes magical. It is the font, the logo, the design, the fact that they have a program where you receive experimental notebooks four times a year — kind of like receiving experimental drugs but better to write things down on — and that it is not enough to just make “National Crop” edition notebooks but they must come in a box with a poster and matching badge.