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.
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21 comments
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.
Alex
April 1st, 2009
3:47 pm
lolhipsters
Savage Henry
April 1st, 2009
4:34 pm
Alas, I'm not a hipster--and I have the ill-fitting bootcut pants and lack of disposable income to prove it.
Alex
April 1st, 2009
5:10 pm
I already saw this on "Stuff White People Like," which apparently hipsters like.
Jon
April 1st, 2009
8:06 pm
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
Anonymous
April 1st, 2009
9:05 pm
This was on Stuff White People Like... essentially the same post but that one was written with some self-awareness.
Person
April 2nd, 2009
2:02 pm
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?
Anonymous
April 3rd, 2009
5:02 am
Alas, shut the fuck up. Jesus.
Student
April 3rd, 2009
6:46 am
?
Anonymous
April 3rd, 2009
5:29 pm
haha. moleskins are far past their prime
"Your style's played out just like a Osh-Kosh jumpsuit."
-Big L
Anonymous
April 6th, 2009
2:16 am
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.
Concerned in Connecticut
April 7th, 2009
10:06 pm
...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
April 11th, 2009
3:15 pm
wow, like everyone didn't already know about moleskins. terrible blog post.
Anonymous
April 11th, 2009
8:40 pm
whhhhooooooo is aynnnn rannnnddd
John Galt
May 1st, 2009
3:43 am
diggin in a hole
diggin in my soul
a mole
May 5th, 2009
12:29 am
the white one looks like anthrax gross
Jemaine77
May 27th, 2009
3:03 am
these are so expensive. If you own one, it means you're a snob. Go back 2 prep school
Anti-Elitist
May 29th, 2009
5:22 pm
Go back to your parents' basement
Anti-Anti-Elitist
May 30th, 2009
12:40 am
Hey where can I get one of these?
Carli
June 1st, 2009
5:27 pm
They have them at stationary shops
@Carli
June 2nd, 2009
10:23 pm
They didn't have them at Staples. Would Wal-Mart have any?
Carli
June 5th, 2009
10:07 pm
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