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20 Days Until Art Car Fest 08

I am totally behind on blogging but ahead in getting my car ready for this years Art Car Fest 08. I am in the process of remodeling, which only means taking old pens off the car and replacing them with fresh ones. I just finished the back fin of the car which sorta looks like a blob of pens all piled up, but trust its a fin. I want to get the car ready before I release any more photos and when I am done I will take the car out for some glamor shots of the Mercedes Pens. I will then flood Al Gores world wide web called the “Internet” with photos of my newly remodeled art car covered in about 10,000 pens. I am also going to buy some fuzzy orange seat covers for the front and make my own for the back seat, spruce up the fake grass and put some down in the back as well.


My daughters first ride in the Mercedes Pens Art Car, notice she is holding a “pen”. I wonder were she got that?

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Someone more addicted to pens than me, I don’t think so!

Today I was thinking it would be great to actually write about pens and write reviews of ones that I like the most. Before I started blogging I journaled a lot and have kept the practice now since 2000, with 22 filled journals thus far. I am so in to it, that I journal about the things I blog about, its sick I know. Anyways I found this great pen review blog called The Pen Addict which has an extensive list of pen reviews and links to other pen addicts of various flavors. Maybe what I should do is review the pens after they have been glued on my car for about two years and talk about how they held up in the sun and rain. Anyways I have to go, it’s late and I am tired, good night.

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100% Clear Silicone from Sebastopol Hardware Center


I must say I love 100% Clear Silicone for gluing pens to my car, and I especially love it when its donated by the awesome folks over at Sebastopol Hardware Center. As gas prices go up so does the price of other petroleum products such as Silicone but the price of their Ace brand is holding nicely at around $4.99 a tube. The stuff is really good for holding pens on the Mercedes pens for around two years and then its time to put fresh ones. The constant beating of UV, heat and rain on the car really does a number on the pens but with a fresh batch of silicone it will allow me to glue more pens at City Kids Festival, Saturday August 23, 2008 – Julliard Park. Art Car Fest is also just around the corner during the last weekend in September 25-28, 2008 so I only have two more moths to figure out how and where to attach four thousand more pens.

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Pen Donantion Keep Pouring In!!!

For the last to three months I have gotten pen donations mailled to me fron all over the country. Some anonymous and some with a return address. To all of you I want to give a big thanks who have supported this project first by donating your pens and by spending your har earned cash to pay for shipping. Thats commitement.