(Tamar Weinberg is a) Schwag Addict

On the topic of pens, that’s always something the old businessfolk seem to consider an absolute necessity. Since I do just about everything over the computer but occasionally sign receipts and the like, I like pens but they’re not as handy as they used to be. Regardless, some are aesthetically pleasing and others are just purely functional. When it comes to pens, you really can’t have too many. 🙂

One of the cooler pens that I own is the light-up pen that I have from Landing Page Optimization firm Widemile:

On a similar note, thanks to Ty Downing, I posted about an earlier light-up pen that actually has Google written all over it. Here’s the better picture (once again, for nostalgia’s sake):

At South by Southwest, I got yet another blue light-up pen (which is great, because blue is my favorite color). This one came from film production site SAGIndie:

Are these all the light-up pens that I have? Not even close. However, this is all I seem to have photographs of at the moment. There will be more!

At SXSW in March, a Blogger party was held. I didn’t really get there on time but my friends Jason Falls and Jane Quigley made sure that I was taken care of with these somewhat uncomfortable (but altogether pretty unique) gloves:

At South by Southwest, they also handed out HUGE Blogger stickers:

It’s a little too big for a laptop (especially the 12″ screen I’m using to write up this blog post), but it’s definitely got “memorable” attached to it!

Ty Downing from Red VW Bus and Perspective Internet Marketing from North Carolina sent me a really nice piece of schwag that I didn’t get at SMX West. I guess you can’t be everywhere at once. My goal is to capture every piece of Google schwag that’s available though (are you listening?) 😉 (You too, John!)

The cool part about this is that it’s a rocket pen — when the lights are off and you turn the pen on, you get a cool red light.

And in the off position, it just looks super sweet.

Thanks, Ty, for this nice little present, and for the amazing followup. You’re too kind, and I really appreciate it!

So as I said, I brought home a lot of t-shirts from SXSW. Here’s a picture of me holding everything:

After the jump, check out the rest of the shirts:

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