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Test Your Pencil Knowledge

Every day through March 15th, we’ll ask a trivia question about pencils. And each day we’ll give a pack of Kitaboshi highlighter pencils and hardbound notebook to someone who answers correctly. At the end of the [...]

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The 15 Best Baseball Songs Ever Written

The World Series is underway and while pundits across the globe examine Tony LaRussa’s bullpen management or Nelson Cruz’s ability to hit a fastball from Arlington to El Paso, I’m going to focus on baseball’s more [...]

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The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

When country music legend Hank Williams died in the backseat of a cadillac somewhere between Knoxville, Tennesse and Oak Hill, West Virginia on New Year’s Day 1953, police found alongside him an empty bottle of bourbon, [...]

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How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan

Often, the hardest part about creative expression is trying to get started.  It’s a challenge everyone faces at one time or another, including the great Bob Dylan. While Dylan is known first and foremost as one [...]

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75 years of Kris Kristofferson

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An All-American athlete, a fighter pilot and a Rhodes Scholar walk into a bar. His name was Kris Kristofferson. 75 years ago, on June 22, 1936, Kristofferson was born [...]