This was rather funny. Well, Actually very funny BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... in a really sad way.
I think that many of us have walked this road ourselves at some point. (Mind you - the whole buying the pen, books etc...well that MIGHT be a little bit over the line.
Everyone wants to look super cool, super smart, super in the groove .... does anyone recall that cool dude who always had a copy of a Herman Hess book on the coffee table? Or the Alexandria Quartet? Those books would always have a very obvious book mark in them, to infer that the owner was actually reading those books ...