More than 5,000 Czechs have signed up to a Facebook campaign to mail pens to President Vaclav Klaus after a video of him sheepishly pocketing a pen during an official signing ceremony in Chile became widely popular on the Internet.
Our apartment is comfortably messy, and I don't often clean — the 1950s red Formica table that belonged to Douglas's grandmother serves more as dumping ground than a dining surface: unopened mail, pens, receipts, loose change, a lamp with a ceramic dog base, two electric toothbrush chargers, a spool of green twine.
We get the tribulations and adventures of Eddie Reno, an ageing K-Mart employee who throws up his job to investigate a strange nineteenth-century diary he has been sent in the mail, penned by one Matthew Robert Princeton, a traumatised Civil War veteran now making a living in a New Orleans brothel.
Mr. T began to make himself at home, confiscating mail, pens, and whole pizza slices and dragging them under the sofa, then chewing a crawl space inside the sofa itself.
An article in the Daily Mail penned by Tom Kelly, claimed that the episode was symptomatic of the BBC's "left-wing bias", arguing the episode's villain, Charles Augustus Magnussen, was portrayed as a capitalist, foreign-born newspaper baron, with similarities to Rupert Murdoch.
Besides walking sticks, keys get dropped, mail, pens, socks, cell phone and single post it note.
Even in this age of the text and e-mail, pen and paper remain the standard.
To borrow from Ann Kirschner, an e-mail pen pal in Brooklyn, the protesters will now have to depend on their tenets, not their tents.
An e-mail pen pal of mine in Alaska (no, not her, someone else) wrote the other day mentioning Marshal Philippe Pétain.
The festival centerpiece will be "Great Expectations," an exhibition at Grand Central Terminal featuring booths for sampling food, checking out new designs (like e-mail pens and a high-tech doghouse) and learning about the services of British businesses and organizations.
A chipped mug with the congealed remnants of yesterday's latte, a mountain of unopened mail, a pen holder so overstuffed that it can't accommodate the pens you use?
