As the school year comes to a close and the warm sunshine replaces that harsh winter cold, we find ourselves asking the same frustrating question we’ve been asking every year. Now that’s warm, why can’t we enjoy it? Maybe it’s the springtime college paradigm: as the weather gets nice, the schoolwork gets harder. Finally, we can sit on the hill without dying of hypothermia but we’re sitting in the library instead. In that spirit, we decided to not jump at the opportunity to showcase incoming spring style and instead focus on something more…academic.
Behold the Moleskin: a notebook of the gods used by the likes of Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway, and sold at Red & Black for your convenience. This wildly popular notebook around campus is identifiable and durable.
Lexi Sturdy ’10 uses a large, cardboard cover notebook.
Emmy Levitas ’11 painted hers with white acrylic paint.
Nora Gilbert ’10 takes notes in hers in Olin.
Jesse Coburn ’09, uses his for piano notes.
21 Comments
Alex
I find the whole moleskin thing kind of ridiculous. Behind the marketing is this assumption that if you are willing to shell 15 dollars or whatever for a notebook, then you clearly belong to this elite class of artistes: Hemingway et al. I’ll take my perfectly sturdy 2.99 notebooks any day. The glamor of carrying around a stylishly-marketed intellectual status symbol does nothing for me.
Savage Henry
lolhipsters
Alex
Alas, I’m not a hipster–and I have the ill-fitting bootcut pants and lack of disposable income to prove it.
Jon
I already saw this on “Stuff White People Like,” which apparently hipsters like.
Anonymous
How about someone who wants a hardcover, no frills notebook with an elastic strap to hold it closed. That comes in several versions: ruled, nonruled, sketch, reporter style. That fits in a pocket. Or comes in bigger sizes. And isnt a hipster?
Hmmmmmmmm kiddos
Person
This was on Stuff White People Like… essentially the same post but that one was written with some self-awareness.
Anonymous
I remember the day when I associated Moleskin with that sticky-padded stuff you put on your skin to protect the ever-so-adventurous hiker from receiving blisters on the sides of his or her feet.
Alas, my childhood days of wandering have been replaced with a brilliant marketing plan that tells me that I can be brilliant too if I write on the same type of paper as Hemingway. Does it come with a warranty? What is my time frame for hitting said greatness?
Student
Alas, shut the fuck up. Jesus.
Anonymous
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Anonymous
haha. moleskins are far past their prime
“Your style’s played out just like a Osh-Kosh jumpsuit.”
-Big L
Concerned in Connecticut
Not the first to point it out but — http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/24/122-moleskine-notebooks/
for real? Either this is second degree self aware, in that it assumes the level of self-awareness of stuffwhitepeoplelike and is opting in to the cliche in an ill-advised attempt at dead-pan critique, with the humor lying in the fact that some people may take it seriously (Read: self-aware hipster cliche trolling), or it is really pretty sad.
Anonymous
…it’s spelled with an ‘e’ on the end. Moleskine.
oh, and I didn’t realize they were a style. I’m just more likely to take care of a $15 notebook than a $3 one.
Anonymous
wow, like everyone didn’t already know about moleskins. terrible blog post.
John Galt
whhhhooooooo is aynnnn rannnnddd
a mole
diggin in a hole
diggin in my soul
Jemaine77
the white one looks like anthrax gross
Anti-Elitist
these are so expensive. If you own one, it means you’re a snob. Go back 2 prep school
Anti-Anti-Elitist
Go back to your parents’ basement
Carli
Hey where can I get one of these?
@Carli
They have them at stationary shops
Carli
They didn’t have them at Staples. Would Wal-Mart have any?