Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for March 02, 2025

that’s me when i wear white for going out – I swear nothing comes on my clothes, except when I wear white.

Back in grad school drafting classes, we had to use rapidograph pens of various sizes. They were lovely when the ink was fresh, but if you were careless enough to fail to clean them each and every time, you ended up with a clogged mess. And those pens were expensive to replace on a teaching assistant stipend.

You need an ’artist’s smock’. (One of Dan’s favorite dress shirts? Worn backwards of course.)

Urban Dictionary definition of “dweek”: "A dweek is someone who has only watched one episode of what they call “The Doctor Who” and then pretends they are the ultimate fangirl." I suppose fanboi is presumed for some dweeks.

Won’t that ink come out after a laundry session? Or multiple sessions? (A little Spray ‘n’ Wash might help.)

I like the “Ink Pen” as well. Too bad that strip’s in repeats now.

One of my pet peeves is those stupid little glasses cloths. They need to be ten times bigger for my fat old fingers to work.

For some reason my grammar school still used dip pens and inkwells in the early ‘50s. No ballpoints till 5th grade. I never got the hang of ballpoints. I’ve always used a fountain pen. Yes, occasional spills and stains.

There is a special soap in the oil paint aisle of the art store. It cuts through every stain, spill, or paint on my hands and clothes (and even my hair). Expensive but so worth it. It even gets out blood!

As far is ink stains are concerned this crazy cat lady is right but I learned that there are other things, things don’t take up a great deal of space in your cupboards or cost a bunch of money, such as lemon and baking soda that takes out protein stains, sometimes just lemon juice does it. For ink stains, a little spritz of rubbing alcohol before washing, not too sure how long to let it sit. Dip a Q-tip in rubbing alcohol to clean ink off of a photograph or smooth surface that you don’t want to spray the alcohol onto, and so much more can be done with household product.