Things I learned today

• The Art Store is now owned by the Dick Blick art supply empire.
• The branch of The Art Store in lower Manhattan has these coupons for 40% any one regular-priced item, good through the 11th (Wednesday). I bought me another of them Holbein-Japan spiral-bound drawing pads.
• Strathmore makes pads of dry media paper, also good for pen and ink, it says.
• A cute Asian girl, a friendly shop clerk, and a bald fat middle-aged comics nerd can spend half an hour pen-geeking.