When your favorite film loses the Best Picture Oscar on Sunday night, don't be surprised. While it's no secret Academy voters aren't exactly the most fair or progressive bunch, it's always disheartening to be reminded of the fact that many Oscar voters—like many American voters, really—are bordering on senility, a little bit sexist, a lot a bit racist, and really just looking out for their own sexist, racist, and limited interests.

In a 1,500 word article, titled "Why Is Hollywood Obsessed with This Pencil," we learn why the Eberhard Blackwing 602 wasn't just any old Numero Dos, it was a cult pencil. Favored by writers like Truman Capote and Vladmir Nabokov, animators, and musical legends Quincy Jones and Stephen Sondheim, the pencil was praised for its creamy writing ability and the fact that, thanks to its rectangular eraser, "it never rolled off the page."