When I was in Europe two weeks ago I fell in love with Moleskin notebooks. I know I am neither a college-age girl or a pretentious artist but these things are great. The paper is soft and thick, there’s a little pouch for your documents at the end, and they survived the abuse of me running around Paris doing research which is more than I can say for most reporters notebooks I’ve used. But yes, they are kind of for weenies but I’m giving some cool, specially engraved notebooks away, so read on.
Anyway, if you’re a weenie like me you’ll enjoy NotebookEngraver.com and JournalEngraver.com. For a little over the price of the notebook you can get almost anything laser cut into your Rhodia notebook or Moleskin Journal.
They sent us some TC and CG notebooks to give away so I’d like to see your best lines of pretentious poetry in comments. One comment is one entry and we’ll close the contest at noon Eastern on Wednesday, December 3. Please also note which type you’d like, TechCrunch or CrunchGear. We have four total to give away, so get cracking.
I am not entering the contest but just have to mention Moleskines are not for weenies. I have been using them for journaling purposes for about two years now (thanks to my ex) and won’t write in anything besides a Moleskine. And I’m no weenie!
Ha! Seriously though; these notebooks/journals/art pads are great and will last forever.
I love moleskin notebooks and have been using them for a while now. These really would make great gifts (at least, given to me).
Umm.. contest should close in December, since that’s the month we’re in.
I’d like the Journal please.
sorry. fixed.
That could be a great marketing tool, or also great for a gift, imaging a book with a nice birthday message on it, cool.
Remember, guys, the contest is for LINES OF PRETENTIOUS POETRY, not blog spamming or random comments regarding the usability of moleskins. I’ll give Gary and Jay the benefit of the doubt but please at least write a limerick.
Is this open to those outside the US? I would love to get the journal. As for the pseudo-poetry:
“T’is better to have said something at the comments section /
Than not to have said anything at all /
All for the sake of a lovely Moleskine.”
I’m still waiting on my previous prize I won here at crunchgear, couple of months ago..
Journals are here,
Journals are there,
Write it or not,
Who does Care !
#oscarwildeday
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Moleskine diaries rock.
Oh my, oh my,
A notebook I spy?
Oh yes, oh yes,
with TechCrunch on it!
(Journal)
Blindy running, eyes blurred
with the wintry backwash of the city
and mouth bleeding drops of day-glo
I seeth and vibrate, I yearn
to create that which cannot
be created until I am told
by a bum-drunk on power
You are free. You are free.
God damn it all (damn indeed)
But you are free.
/how’s that?
There once was a notebook from Mole / Whose spine was as strong as a troll / But the words on the front / Weren’t nearly as blunt / As the ones penned inside from my soul.
There was a lady newbrook
Who wanted to win a notebook
So after her lunch
she visited TechCrunch
but got layed off because the company didn’t get the second round of venture funding. . . .ah the economy
sorry…in case I win, crunchgear, please.
Thanks!
Oh, that I should ever see a Moleskin notebook come to me.
Thou smoothed skin so fine and fresh,
Tis oft be known to take thy breath.
Away go I to dream once more,
Of Moleskin notebook at my door.
BTW It doesn’t matter which
Give you up. give you up
Give you up, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, five you up
I just wanna tell you “I need the TechCrunch Notebook!”
Gotta make you understand!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
Cheers!
A vestibule for these words I seek,
A medium quite entirely unique,
Amorphous prose completes my hunch,
That none could rival a techcrunch diary.
If I were a pretentious technology troll,
I would lob vicious phrases like a pompous ***hole,
They would ban my IP,
So it’s a proxy for me,
Cuz’ there’s more than one way to skin a mole.
TechCrunch Moleskine por favor.
Crunch Gear is where I’m at,
Free journal? I sure like some of that,
Should I get TC or CG?
It does not matter since it’s all free.
But if I must pick,
TC will do the the trick.
:D
Not custom, but these moleskine designs are friggin’ amazing. I bought a couple this fall – http://www.modofly.net/collections/journals-sketchbooks
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee
That mordiously hath bitled out
Its earted jurtles
Into a rancid festering
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts
And living glupules frart and slipulate
Like jowling meated liverslime
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon
See if I don’t.
I see you read the books huh . . .
uh, the techcrunch large one please!
“lazy
lazy
lazy
lazy
lazy
lazy arrington
wanted to give away a moleskine
so he waited
and waited
and waited
and waited
and waited
for someone to care again”
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding
I am…
A journal
(Apologies Counting Crows)
O great Moleskin,
With an ‘e’ or without,
You are to my pencil what pollen is to a bee:
The ingredient of importance,
The essence of the crop.
O Moleskin, O great one,
When I write on you I cannot stop.
Some admonish you saying you are a weenies book
But I love you all the same
Useful, functional and beautiful,
The perfect trio for productivity.
O Moleskin, O great one,
Please be mine this nativity.
My girlfriend has a Mole
It is Cindy Crawford-esque
She has beautiful Skin
But all I see are breasts
A mole and pretty skin
But no MoleSkin?
I’m getting pretty pissed
Lets go bowling
SHUTUP DONNY YOU PRETENTIOUS PRICK THE WORLD DOES NOT START AND STOP AT YOUR CONVENIENCE
Sorry for that interlude
Not intended to be rude
What I pray for as I eat my lunch,
Is MoleSkin Engraved with Tech Crunch!
Or CrunchGear, I’m not Picky
Cmon Dawg don’t Michael Vick-me
“It’s Christmas, I think I’ll pass. I’m not a grouch, just no money in my pouch. I need a journal, to put down my sorrows into a fall. Please giive me one, so I can get off your lawn.”
the paper that i’ve written on,
has seen it’s value soar,
because the words i pen to it,
are quite unlike most bores.
i know the tech’s a bit behind,
a blog nobody reads,
but Dickens did it the same way,
and his results did please.
just think of all the things i know,
that dickens could not have dreamed,
trust me when i say how it will go:
read my journal – your pants get creamed.
(TC preferred, yo.)
put pen to paper
only then will the moleskine
know that it is loved
There once was a blog named TechCrunch
and people read it a bunch
whether because they agreed and would cheer
or to spam the comments, year after year
and today is a super special day
because they have a giveaway
to win something would be the bee’s knees
so I would like the TechCrunch Journal please
“If you would not be forgotten
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either do things worthy of writing
or write things worthy of reading”
Not me, that was Benjamin Franklin, I can pass the journal along to him if you like :)
I think I would like the TechCrunch one, but whatever you want to send me.
See it
Hear it
Write it
Forget it
Play Free Bird :)
They was a man who couldn’t write
but nonetheless would always fight
to find a canvas to paint his thoughts
he really believed that Techcrunch ought:
To send him a Techcrunch notebook!
Success!
My thoughts between your covers
Oh Rhodia, you should be so lucky
I prefer the TC version.
A Holiday Gift Idea
Was the title of the post
That brought to mind
The reason I find
Gives more meaning to life than most.
Because Holiday really means Holy
Something sacred and pure and true
Remembering a day
When God came to say
It is finished, it is through
In a manger, born of flesh
A substitute in every way
To live without sin
And yet die in the end
To give you life while taking your guilt away.
They will laugh and call you a fool
Write it off as pretentious for sure
That won’t change the fact
That history stays in tact
No matter what redactions are procured.
So celebrate this season of Christ
Humble enough to be born a man
While holding the power
To create stars or a flower
And set grace as the heart of his plan
No worldly religion can claim it
Grace is granting what we don’t deserve
And all others are based
On rules not on grace
But perfection can not be graded on a curve
So accept God’s gift this season
His son sacrificed willingly
For all else is fleeting
As superficial as cheating
And grant me a TC Moleskin, hopefully.
Now is the time that
We lust for a TechCrunch book
And record their notes
(haiku format)
Being an obnoxious ass,
my mere persona reeks with class.
Generally, I would never stoop,
for such journalistic poop.
In this case, a free moleskin please,
I beg of you from my knees.
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
Give me a CG moleskin,
Or I pity the fool!
Can’t seem to understand the words I type
perhaps it would be better via Skype
A moleskin with any moniker will do
for one who wants for further spew.
Notebooks of moleskin;
feel as soft as rose petals.
How I would like one.
I am open as to which version I would win.
i love moleskin – so durable, classy, and just the right size. I’d love a TechCrunch one!
I love the moleskin notebooks, been using them for years. Always a hip accessory at meetings.
pseudo poetry… hmmm… “uh urhmm…” (as I clear my throat)
moleskin, moleskin
or let’s not lose more skin
mortgages went zooming
now ballooning
an over baked turkey gone ‘Kapoof!”
yet some ask to see more proof
more to come
ho, diddy dumb
silent murmurs of credit card debt cresting
oh crap where should i invest in???
hmm???
working away
or should i play
pour another stout
won’t the government still bail me out?
cheers
Soft and kind,
what a find!
Send TechCrunch please,
and make it mine.
Bought one of the journals. Can’t wait to see it. If i like it, I will buy more.
“O thank ye wise ones for ye is but a guiding ship among the sea”
“O thank ye wise ones for ye is but a guiding ship among the sea”
Want anything said at all, which I still doubt
Sphinx of questioning substance, or a sort
One flash of eye, or blow one clarion-blast;
Snow haze gleams like sand.
Bronze the sky, with no
The surge of swirling wind defines
Standing in the way of the truth.
* * *
Either would be fine, thanks!
CrunchGear !!!!
When you’re feeling left out, and untold,
When you’re feeling helpless, and not so bold,
Open up a Moleskine or a Rhodia,
It will hold your thoughts day by day.
Either one will do, thank you!
I wonder why
I wonder why
I wonder why I wonder
I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder
- Richard Feynman
I think
I am
I think I think I am
I am, I think, because I think, therefore, I am
Inspired by cogito ergo sum