my brother uses a pilot precise V5 extra fine rolling ball pen with admirable results

my baby brother jedd will be thirteen in a month (what!). he has very elegant, if childish, penmanship and relies almost solely upon script rather than print. sometimes i think this is funny, because he's not a very elegant sort of person. his hair is always messy and his glasses are always broken. (my brother is a real-life harry potter. it's true.) --and he never wears button-up shirts, no matter how politely i ask him to. he has about twelve sitting in his dresser, untouched. my mother keeps buying them. i think she is in denial.

but secretly, jedd has a very elegant side to him that i catch glimpses of every so often. his penmanship shows it every day, but one night while i was writing letters in my bedroom, he came in and wanted to test out some of my favorite pens. he rarely draws anything because he doesn't like to. (and he doesn't like to because he thinks he's no good at it. ah! he won't listen to me tell him otherwise.) but once he popped the cap off one of my pilot precise V5 extra fine rolling ball pens, he had to drawing something. those pens have that effect on people, i'm telling you.

check this out. this is jedd's rendition of the raconteurs' R sticker. jedd is a big jack white fan. (i am too! but i prefer the stripes.) he carries the sticker around, but never sticks it on anything. i think it's awesome that he thinks this sticker is so awesome, but i think it's even more awesome that jedd's version has teeth.



below, a misspelling turns an exclamation of surprise into a pity party with a classy capital W:



well, anyway, my brother is one of my favorite people in the world.
just sayin'.