Take Note: Recent Episodes
Ted Walker & Adam Webb
Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.
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Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
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Bill Murray NYT Interview
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Scion xB 2004
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Any Person Is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert
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Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
Ted and Adam each traveled, on their own, to New York. They talk filmgoing in the city, note-taking in the city, clock-watching in the city, etc. Program note: I couldn’t get the Uniball One Gel P pen refill to work and said as much. Soon after recording, I got it to work. It’s awesome.
Wilco
Sturgill Simpson
Pete Doherty on Tommy Tiernan’s show
The Clock at MoMA
Field Notes movie night
AS Hamrah
Adam beams in from a room near the lobby of a Grand Cayman hotel room to discuss what we’ve been jotting in our notebooks, app boredom, school dropoff chaos, and book recommendations. And in a new feature, Radio Take Note, we offer up two songs that are worth sharing.
Book recommendations
A Gentleman in Moscow
Belcanto
My Brilliant Friend
Lonesome Dove
The Adult
All the Light We Cannot See
Angie McMahon
Sprints
Field Notes "The Chicago Look" Edition
Colt Bowden Sign Painting Books
Penchetta Pen and Knife Store
Profolio Oasis Notebook
Ted steps in it when comparing a local celebration to Mardi Gras, plus some impromptu haiku, real rodeo cowboy names, and notes from the baseball tournament. And a leading question: what pen is most like a pencil?
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Uni Jetstream Edge
Pentel sign pen
Project 3.18’s Spring Training Story
Adam's Notebooks
Just Tell Me Who It Was by John Cheever
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Jamelle Bouie favorite film genres
Annhiliation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
Pablo Delcan
The Imperfectionist (Oliver Burkeman)
The Secret Pentagon War Game…
It’s baseball season! To commemorate this happy time of year, Ted made an audio recording of an essay that he wrote in 2014 for a collection called “The Who, the What, and the When” put together by Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt LaMothe on the theme of historical sidekicks. Adam also contributed, as did Dan Kugler (underground legend for his work co-hosing the Slackers episode) and lots of other cool folks.
In Ted’s essay, he shares a vignette about Hiroshi Arakawa, the hitting coach of Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh. Every short essay is accompanied by a staggeringly beautiful illustration. The mind-blowing illustration accompanying his essay is by the awesome Paul Windle.
Notes from between 1606 and 1607, the beauty of alternate takes, using notebooks to refine ideas, and why the pencil is a Zen object.
Caravaggio essay, NYRB
Wilco, A Ghost is Born box set
Kafka’s Diaries
zen
DDC x FN Turquoise Tribute
At the Existensialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
Jokermen
Turkey and the Wolf
Casamento's
Midori Grain Memo Pad
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Ryan joins us as we prep for the big game with our talk of oyster restaurants, middle school recitals, and Adam’s approach to a “logbook” to track movies watched, stories read, etc.
Oysters in the New York Times
Bakewell’s book on existentialism
MJ Lenderman
You Must Remember This podcast
Patreon page (thanks for your support!)
In this episode we share notes from a Texas snowstorm, journals from the olden days spark creative, a dream journaling update, a new segment, and discuss the new work from John McPhee in the New Yorker. We also announce the new book we’ll read together and discuss. Please enjoy!
Stationerdy notebook from Dapper Notes
Ohto sharp pencil
Tabula Rasa Volume Five by John McPhee
Take Note book club, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
The Theme
Northwestern University Media Library
Today's Number Is…
Peggy Guggenheim Museum Shop
Easy Everything Internet Cafe
Rushmore
A Complete Unknown
Joan Baez Tax Debt
It’s 2025, we look at some year-starting notebooks, discuss how one might use the Notes app with paper notebooks, and share our slate of waddya gots. Ted’s audio changes a few minutes in, sorry about that!
On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
Octavia Books, New Orleans
Flights by olga tokarczuk
Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Rose Matafeo
Lamy Hardcover notebook with Lamy ruling
Doane paper
Standard Memorandum 2025 by Word. and designed by Jon Contino
Take Note Patreon
In the last episode of 2024, we haphazardly bring the heat, rambling from one topic to the next. We range across used bookstores, endurance in art, a notebook of the week, and a exegesis on Sirius radio.
Becker’s Books
John K King Books, Detroit
Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty
BookedUP AC, originally Booked Up, Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in Archer City, Texas
White Lines notebooks
The Work of Art by Adam Moss
Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour
Take Note Patreon
Enter the Wizard
B&N Villain NYT 2022
B&N Back NYT 2023
B&N Back NYT Also 2023
Mainstreet Books Davidson
Vectors by James Richardson
Glorious Exploits
Field Notes Vintage Edition
Boston General Store
Take Note Patreon
We spend some time discussing writer Oliver Burkeman’s thoughts on time and tasks, but not before covering wood chipping wisdom, baked waiters, salsa spiciness, and fast food divorce.
Oliver Burkeman
Solemn Oath Field Notes
Papier Tigre
The Unfinished Notebook podcast
Staedtler Lumograph Pencils
Beer recommendations
Pentel Calme
General’s Color-Tex Pencil
Tombow ABT Pens
Tombow Unions Hat
Complicated Halloween party scenarios, track meets, notebook use cases, doing a little better every day: it’s all here this week.
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
Clairefontaine
John Cheever stories
Daily Stoic
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Jeremy Strong on Fresh Air
Jeremy Strong on WTF
Victory Brewing Company
Keep Honking I Also Am A Goose Bumper Sticker
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
The Birds and Trees of North America Field Notes
Claire Fontaine Classic Spiral
Rhodia Sewn Spine Rhodiarama Notebooks
Spiral Decomposition Notebook
Ryan Slie joins us as co-host this week for a rousing round of waddya gots and a discussion of NEW TEETH by Simon Rich.
takenote_pod We’re on Instagram
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Hold Your Breath on Hulu
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Ted and Adam dig into the mailbag, the email bag: reading a week of emails from 2014 to see what we can learn from ourselves. Old brands, office pools, and errant invitations.
Al Pacino’s essay in the New Yorker
Main Street Books, Davidson, NC
Adam and Ted bring their notebooks to middle school and concert hall and to middle age.
Help The Aged
2024 XOXO Field Notes
Demetrius Oliver's "Aerial"
Field Notes Glitch Edition
Field Notes Index Edition
The Third Man
Colson Whitehead's Weird Little List
How To Write A Mystery
Our notebooks are sandy and water-stained, beat up and full of notes from the summer as we look to the next season.
Three Potato Four Notebook
Field Notes beer
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
Lauren Collins of the New Yorker
An Editor’s Burial, a companion to the French Dispatch
Paul Schrader on imdb
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Endo Announces Extension Of U.S. Rights For Voltaren Gel
New Yorker Summer 2024 Fiction Issue
Adam’s got some game-changing comfort ideas; Field Notes has a beer out; titles of Tolkien; mystery book chit-chat; some podcast recommendations.
Goshi wash cloth
Field Notes beer
Reckon True Stories
NYT 100 best of this century
Shell Game
New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue 2024
Fratelli Bonvini Milan
Check out the Scarabook
Edizioni Precarie
Beppe Giacobbe
Riccardo Luci Florence
Irish moss for paper marbling
We talk writing and music this week alongside our typical super-charged banter. And the notebook of the week!
Fire Mike Miles
Louise Gluck
The Work of Art by Adam Moss
Tabula Rasa: Volume Four by John McPhee in the New Yorker
Story Club with George Saunders
Waxahatchee
Good Morning
Charley Crockett
DEHD
NYT Magazine: How Khruangbin’s Sound Became the New Mood Music
Field Note Arceo edition
Doane Grid + Lines Notebook
The Last Kind Word Saloon
Norcom Spiral Notebook
Paul Auster Obit
Alice Munro Obit
Adam finds a tonic for spider bite, makes Uber conversation, Ted reads the Hobbit, Adam witnesses a short story, Ted passes a collision center. We also talk about the fun and potential of drawing little comics in our notebooks as more of a daily practice.
Original Sin Black Widow Cider
Vox review of Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Papier Tigre
From 2019: Sidenote: Chasing Paper in Paris
Work of Art by Adam Moss
Doane Paper Gridlines Idea Book
Denik Notebooks
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
Jeff Tweedy How To Write One Song
Baseball writer and storyteller Paul Jackson of Project 3.18 joins us to discuss his project, wherein he serves up truly fabulous true stories from baseball’s past. The kind of stories you’ll tell and re-tell at fantasy baseball drafts.
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Project 3.18 by Paul Jackson. Baseball stories!
an ill-fated night of Cleveland baseball
flour-bombing at Chavez Ravine
Jim McManus
A’s to play in Sacramento
Legatoria Polleria, Venice
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Field Notes Flora Edition
Emmy Star Brown
Jenna Blazevich
Pentel Sign Pen via Austin Kleon
Uni Style Fit
Motion
Trips to the museum, business dinners, digging into Ted’s pen haul from Jet Pens.
Picasso at the Art Institute
Werner Herzog’s book
George Saunders substack
Pilot ILMILY
Sakura Ballsign
Ohto FUDE
Tick and Pick
Field Notes Foiled Again
EnerGel Euro Needle-Point
UniStyle Fit Slim Gel Pen
TomBow Air Press Ballpoint
Sakura Ballsign Gel Pen
TomBow Mono Graph Lite Ballpoint
Kinokuniya Bookstore
Lauren Laverne on House Music
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Josh Ritter Sermon on the Rocks
Kehinde Wiley Notebook
Believer Issue 40
We dig into our book club read Vertigo by WG Sebald, share our notebook of the week, and more.
The Vaster Wilds by the master Lauren Groff
Denim jacket stuff on our newsletter
ABOUT: BLANKS, our notebook of the week
Boston General Store
The Locavore by Caroline Weaver
Peter Mendelsund
Vertigo edition with Mendulsund cover
Take Note episode about Slacker
Sebald obituary, NYtimes
Support the podcast via Patreon
Papermate Flair
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Three Potato Four Notebook
Across the Moominverse
Weird Science
The Vertigo by WG Sebald reading project continues, Adam pushes Mitt, and Ted has a denim jacket project.
Vertigo by WG Sebald, book club!
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
the only Bob Dylan patch
Gabbert Quote and Olives Pic
Deep Vellum
D For Dapper
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
World Within A Song by Jeff Tweedy
Vertigo by WG Sebald
Adam adjusts to getting glasses for distance and gives small business the business.
Write notebooks
Field Notes
Patreon: jump in to receive the annual commonplace zine
The Official Netflix Cookbook
Amazon Has Hollywood's Worst Shows but it's Best Business Model
Field Notes Birch Bark
Field Notes Heartland
Dan McCarthy
Dapper Notes – Enon Avital’s unique, beautiful notebooks covered in lush paper and fabric and filled with excellent paper – occupy a special place in the notebook landscape. Brimming with color and texture, they elevate the pocket notebook to an art form, and the hand of their creator quite literally graces every book. Enon is that creator, and we had a lovely time learning why he started producing beautiful books, the pleasure he takes in sharing the process, and the care he takes in creating objects that are inherently unexpected.
Dapper Notes
Candy Cane Green Tea
Clairefontaine Mini Notebooks
Pocket Leuchttturm
Evan Osnos' China's Age of Malaise
Apple Store Employees Can't Use These Words
Essayism
Sara Levine
Lindsay Hunter's Hot Springs Drive
Maria Bamford
Wilco at Metro
Ted and Adam hone their predatory instincts by writing daily poems.
Field Notes Foiled Again
Megatherium
Creature Conservancy
Daniel Clowes - Monica
Last of the Summer Wine
Patreon
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Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay and Lebogang Mashile on Start the Week
The Trumpet of the Swan
How Emilly Wilson Made Homer Wilson Modern
Emily Wilson YouTube
Field Notes Birch Bark
Field Notes Shelterwood
Robert Frost Birches
Vandals Who Trashed Robert Frost's Home Take Poetry Classes as Penance
Dromgoole's Clairefontaine Collection
Atlas Stationers' Clairefontaine Collection
Sakura BallSign ID
Blackwing Matte
Erasable Podcast
Ted and Adam navigate numerous potential false memories. Adam remembers his trip to Poland – and a unique stationery store – quite well. Adam also runs through a haul of Japanese stationery.
Texas Instruments model 104 watch
Top Drawer Helvetica pen
Midori Grain memo pad
Olga Tokarczuk
Ro-Biki notebook
Kinokuniya Katy
Field Notes Tin O Darts
Field Notes Harvest
Daniel Johnston and Wilco
Field Notes Foiled Again
Retirement the Margaritaville Way
Summer is almost over, so what could be more appropriate than breaking down the stories in the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue? Ryan Slie joins us, to our delight. Sign up for the Substack newsletter!
Field Notes DDC Standard Issue Factory Floor
Elton John’s “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”
Houston Astro Bill Doran
Field Notes Kraft - Amber
Dapper Notes
Walking In Memphis
"The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff New Novel
Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Cattan
4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman Archive at The Guardian
Dickerson on the Urgent/Important Matrix
Summer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more.
Some Came Running
Lauren Groff
Georges Simenon
JustWatch
Field Notes
Dapper Notes
Mulholland Drive
Always Take Notes
Solarpunk
Judge John Hodgman: This is the Name of Your Mullet
Galveston Railroad Museum
Field Notes Coffee Farm Costa Rica
Field Notes DDC Logos
Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak
Jesse Ball
Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker
Adam's June 2023 Playlist (Apple Music)(Spotify)
The Wager by David Grann
The Collected Maxims of W.G. Sebald
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Adam reflects on his experience with Martin Amis, Adam’s archive is all screwed up, Ted bounces around San Francisco and reads a couple of books. And a correction: Ryan Slie was not reading Anna Karenina.
Field Notes Leap of Faith
Martin Amis
Kinokuniya San Francisco
Lamy Flagship Store San Francisco
City Lights bookstore
The Real Work by Adam Gopnik
All Known Metal Bands
Dapper Notes Playground
Field Notes Craft Plus
Pentel Calme
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Kundun Soundtrack Phillip Glass
Eric Nusbaum on Take Note
Radio 3 Record Review
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the Twentieth Century
We talk more about notebooks for a specific purpose, wherein Ted gives up on his dream journal while Adam thrives as a dream journaler. Meanwhile, Packaging World breaks news of new Pentel packaging: we break it down.
Dapper Notes
Pentel Reimagines Blister Packs as Plastic-Free, Packaging World magazine
Saving Time by Jenny O’Dell
We talk journals for specific purposes (aka a good excuse to start another journal) and Ted shares his books and stationery explorations in Charlotte, NC. And listener Scott B. builds on our discussion of refilling Pilot pens.
Main Street Books, Davidson, NC BOOKS!
Good Postage
Elisa Gabbert
Fine Point Communications
Write Notepads Paper Journal Banana
John Prine "Lake Marie"
The Decembrists "Don't Carry It All"
Michael Marra "The Lonesome Death of Francis Clarke"
Buster Keaton "One Week"
Uni Ball Jetstream
Uni Ball Signo 207
The Rest is Noise
Kakuyo Lead Pencil 1.3
Field Notes Unexposed
Dapper Notes Playground
Baseball Prospectus 2023
David Lynch Weather Report
Radio France La B.O.
Klimt (Malkovich)
Rodin
BBC3 Sounds of Cinema Animals Behaving Badly
Adam returns from Mardi Gras to share tales of the spectacle and we ponder privacy settings spurred by news of an unsettling Roomba-related breach.
Sue Halpern: Private Eyes
The Fabelmans Spoiler
Salman Rushdie on The New Yorker Radio Hour
CityCast Chicago
Dapper Notes
Texas Monthly 50th Anniversary Cover
Adam makes a song recommendation that becomes a cultural tidal wave in Ted’s household, and they swap yarns about going for the double cheeseburger, cabin fireplace safety, radical baseball honesty, and more.
Spy novelist Mick Herron
Field Notes Hatch Print
Michael Marra on Spotify
BBC Radio 3 (DJ honorific to Sarah Mohr-Pietsch)
Robert Burns
Sometimes we don’t like notebooks, and we get into it by way of Murakami and Saunders.
Field Notes Hatch Print
Musgrave New Yorker pencil
Midori Traveller's Notebook
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Murakami Against Notebooks
Patreon
Field Notes Snowy Evening
Schon Design Pocket Six
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Nemone on BBC6
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Midori Traveller's Notebook
Anderson Pens Vintage Pens
Field Notes Hatch Print
Lamy Tipo
Platinum 3776
Standard Memorandum 2023
McDonald Observatory
Dapper Notes Flying To
Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Dinner by Cesar Aira
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Adam provides a timely addition to the ongoing summer beverage series, we run through some new stationery acquisitions, and Ted revels in a playlist Adam culled from the far reaches of Radio France.
Costco Vonbee Honey Citron & Ginger Tea
Fourth Pres Church, Chicago
Lousy Liner recycle ink and pens
craighill.co Kepler pen
Main Street Books Davidson
DDC Draplin "Surplus Green/Hazard Yellow" Field Notes
kameterior notebooks
Dapper Notes and Stationery
Folk Songs for Fones, playlist by Adam (Spotify)
Radio France FIP
Traveler’s Notebook inserts
Substack
Patreon
Leuchtturm Notebook
Papier Plume
Hugh Laurie on The Late Show
Elba Four-Ring Paper
Freewrite
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Adam and Ted get some IRL face time, Ted watches the old Willow with the family, and Adam negotiates with his reptile guy and puts in place a backup plan. We also talk about the new Field Notes edition and
Field Notes Kraft Plus edition
anvil cards, Houston
Field Notes Hatch Show Print edition
Huckberry x Draplin Field Notes
Take Note Substack newsletter (sign up!)
We tangle with tough questions about social media and how to break unsatisfying cycles. Meanwhile, Ted finds his missing Lamy Safari, Adam enjoys an oversharing pilot who, disturbingly, compares a plane to an old operating system, and Adam tees up a clever Irishman.
Fiskars scissors
Lamy Safari
James Acaster
What’s the proper note-jotting etiquette? Notebook vs. phone? We dig into the etiquette a little further. In whaddya gots, parents must choose whether to display their allegiance, Adam spins a yarn of disrespecting Natalie Merchant via submarine sandwich, has a near-miss medical non-situation, and plans ahead with Baron Fig.
Field Notes Harvest edition
Natalie Merchant Tigerlily on Spotify
Baron Fig planner
Sakura Pigma Micron
Logan Huntzberger
Prepared with a nearly full set of hex wrenches, Adam takes note of his 10th anniversary of carrying a Field Notes book in his pocket, Ted enjoys a trip to the indie record store, Adam encounters a concerned citizen, a new thrifting strategy. We also take a look at the new Field Notes edition and talk Wilco.
Vinal Edge Records
Field Notes Hatch Direct from Nashville
Blackwing 200 Coffeehouse Edition
Blackwing 55
Nakabayashi Logical Prime spiral notebooks
Jacques Herbin Shogun
Pitchfork Review: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Field Notes Leap of Faith edition
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias
Zebra V-301
Field Notes Green Mind Green edition
Field Notes Wilco edition
Ryan Slie joins us and brings some tales from getting to the ballpark, Adam enjoys a special day at the dive bar, we share Sunday rituals and salami slices choices, and we test inks! Riding the high from Adam’s discussion with Keith McLeary, we run through a selection of ink samples and see what lands.
Wabash Feed
Randomthinks
Diamine Inks
Anderson Pens
Ezra Klein "How We Look Matters as Much as What We See"
Nope
Weekday Matinees
Field Notes Salt Shed Notebooks
Robert Earl Keen "No. 2 Live Dinner"
Robert Earl Keen "Picnic"
Jody Rosen "White Christmas"
"Willie Nelson's Long Encore"
One True Podcast
"The Trees" by Percival Everett
"Oh William!" by Elizabeth Strout
"Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan
"Nightcrawling" by Leila Mottley
We launched a Patreon.
We chat about toddler hijinx on the road this summer, salty lox conundra, and Adam’s fountain pen phase, while Adam spins up some surprise endings and Ted describes the chaos of notebooking while traveling.
We launched a Patreon, so if you’d like to support the show, we’d greatly appreciate and will put everything back into it.
Lamy 2000
Field Notes "The Great Lakes"
Fancy Chimpanzee from Ryan Slie
Nanami Seven Seas Writer
French Truck Coffee
The Good War by Studs Terkel
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Trees by Percival Everett
Randomthinks Instagram
A5 Hobonichi Techo Cousin
Field Notes End Papers
Elisa Gabbert on the NYT Book Review Podcast
Japanese Hanko Stamp
Lamy 2000
Colorverse Hubble
Diamine Inks
Ink Flight Box
Goulet Pens
Anderson Pens
Vanness Pens
Pen Chalet
Goldspot Pens
N+1 Unleash the Niche
Tombow Unions Hat
Cervezas Polar Hat
Rachel Syme "How I Learned to Wear a Baseball Hat"
Lauren Collins New Yorker Archive
Kansas City Katz Sweatshirt
Portland Beavers Jersey
La Michoacana Premium
New Yorker July 11, 2022
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle
"The School" by Donald Barthelme
Denis Johnson's Angels
Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers
William Eggleston
W.G. Sebald
In Our Time (BBC) Death of Stars
In Our Time (BBC) Shakespeare's Sonnets
"Step" Vampire Weekend
Many Glacier Guided Boat Tour and Hike
Field Notes "Leap of Faith"
Field Notes "The Great Lakes"
Field Notes "National Crop"
Field Notes Subscriber Box by René Arceo
Nanami Seven Seas Writer
We dig into notebooks on vacation and the associated techniques; read our summer magazines backwards; a touch of vertigo kicks off some movie reflections for Adam; Ted takes on an electric pencil sharpener restoration project.
Monocle Magazine
Moleskine Paris notebook (this looks different from the one I used)
Write purbound notebook
Nanami Seven Seas Writer
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Zebra Sarasa 0.3
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Pilot Juice Up 0.3
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Ballsign ID Mysterious Black 0.4
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Midori Brass Ballpoint Bullet Pen
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Pentel Energel 0.5
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Dad Jokes Served Fresh Daily
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Country Songs for Clones (Spotify)
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Country Songs for Clones (Apple Music)
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Folk Music is Insane
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Donald Barthelme
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City Life Barthelme
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McSweeney's 24
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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Inprint Houston
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Take Note Patreon
Adam and Ted discuss sandwich dreaming, how to get excited about and make the most of a writing workshop, why we write down lists, and whether to post a kids’ book on Goodreads.
Also, we launched a Patreon. We welcome your support of this podcast, which is a real passion project for us that we hope has provided you with some laughs and some thoughts.
Inprint Houston
University of Houston Creative Writing
Donald Barthelme
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Ruff House Print Shop
T Magazine
Coney Island restaurants
Country Songs for Clones (Spotify)
Country Songs for Clones (Apple Music)
Field Notes Signs of Spring
Uniball Signo UM-153
Tombow Mono .38
Ryan Slie joins us for our 150th episode, in which we share our latest round of waddya gots, Ted asks readers to share how your Prius died (because we know it did and we know it was weird), and we exchange sweaty summer book ideas and our creativity goals for the sunny season.
Quiet Collector on Etsy
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaason
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Vacationland by John Hodgman
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere
The Skints
Who the hell are Arcade Fire?
Uniball Jetstream
Pentel EnerGel Kuro
Pentel Inkjoy
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Lamy 2000
UniBall Signo UM-153
Lamy Tipo
Field Notes Signs of Spring
From the Take Note blog: Signs of wear on Signs of Spring
Quiet Collector
Detroit TypeWorks
Ted visits Petco, Adam and Ted get grossed out and squeezed in on airplanes. Then we check in on recent Field Notes notebook editions – Signs of Spring delights and inspires a vision.
Field Notes Leap of Faith edition
Field Notes Signs of Spring
Trader Joes Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives
International Cat Federation
Detroit Type Works
Graphite Confidential
CW Pencils
California Typewriter
Lettera 22
The Cameraman by Dana Stevens
Bowler Hat
Ezra Klein and Annie Murphy Paul on Notebooks and Screens
Getting Things Done
Hermes Rocket
Adah Fitzgerald, owner of Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina, joins the show to talk stocking a pen for the first time Special offer: enter the discount code TAKENOTE when you enter your online order and get 20% off of your purchase, excluding shipping costs.
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi coming out in May
MoonWitch, SpiderKing by Marlon James
Pure Color by Sheila Hedi
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel
Herbin pens now available at Main Street Books
Public - Supply
Oliver Burkeman makes a compelling case for morning pages
PROMPTS newsletter – we sent two in 2021
5-Minute Morning Yoga
"If you don't have time to meditate…"
How To Do Nothing
Adam and Ted discussed How To Do Nothing days before COVID shut down the world
In our neverending exploration of life through the notebook, we delve into Joan Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook” and explore how we use a notebook, why, and what it means to us.
New Yorker: 1995 article on the Bloomsbury Group
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
On Becoming Lucy Sante by Lucy Sante
Blog Post: How to Keep a Notebook
Slate Political Gabfest
Image: John Locke’s Method for Commonplace Notebooks, The Public Domain Review
City Cast Houston
The Orange Show Houston
Phillip Pyle II
George Saunders Story Club
Kerouac On The Road Scroll
Second City Corporate Education
NYT Daily: Russia and the U.S. Face Off Over Ukraine
Freewrite
Field Notes Heavy Duty
Field Notes Heavy Duty x Magnetic Tape Hack
Field Notes Trailhead
Field Notes Harvest
Ryan Slie joins the podcast once again to discuss Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire in depth, to check in on our stationery-related hauls after the holidays, and to discuss Adam’s very large planner.
The National WWII Museum
Maker’s Cabinet ferrule
Sports Stories ballcap
Ebbets Field Flannels Musgrave cap
Paris Review 238
Crispin Finn Planner
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Brian Boyd
NYTimes review, 1962
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrea Pitzer
“Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city…”
Ted and Adam resist the urge to switch over to a ghosts/murders podcast by digging in on the stationery we’re using, debate the use of voice-typing in a group setting, and try and pay some attention to all of the things we subscribe to. And of course whaddya gots.
Jamelle Bouie’s cereal reviews
Who’s the Most Lovable Pooches?
Field Notes All Trails
Field Notes Harvest edition
Tombow Mono Graph Lite ballpoint pen
Narwhal fountain pen
Tokyo Inklings podcast
Subscriptions we came up with between the two of us
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NY Times
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NY Review of Books
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The Economist
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Monocle
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National Geographic
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Texas Monthly
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N+1
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The Week (for kids)
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Rosetowne, fancy postcards
Streaming
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The Internet
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HBO Max
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Apple TV
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Hulu/ESPN/Disney Plus
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Netflix
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Amazon Prime
Digital
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MaxFun
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Erasable Patreon
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Effectively Wild baseball podcast
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Fangraphs.com
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Kottke.org
Email newsletters
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George Saunders Story Club newsletter
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Starship Casual by Jeff Tweedy
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Lettre Recommandée by Lauren Collins
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Sports Stories by Eric Nusbaum and Adam Villacin (I said they’ve only done this for a year, I was way off)
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Take Note Prompts newsletter
Many more…
Wombo Art app
"I don't like Mondays"
I'm a Writer But… podcast
Paramedic and author Ted Flanagan
Ted Flanagan's index cards
Pale Fire
Pilot Precise V5
Brad Dowdy's Dotdash Index Cards
Analog Index Card System
Adam and Ted reckon with the reality of NaNoWrimo, we talk planners and the lack thereof, Adam is in danger of breaking an impressive streak of Field Notes releases, and he has a transcendent experience watching Get Back about the Beatles.
Field Notes Harvest edition
Port Aransas, Texas
San Jose Island (Ted called it San Juan by accident)
Field Notes Ignition edition
Word. Standard Memoradum 2022 by Jon Contino
Baron Fig deskpad
Blackwing’s latest lab
No More Jockeys on YouTube
Uhh Yeah Dude
Uniball Signo UM-153
Pentel Energel Euro
Get Back, Beatles documentary
Song Exploder
We check in our our respective #NanoWrimo progress, make some bold motivational offers, find good (and old) character names, and explore strategies to keep going and write gooder.
Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing, the Guardian
Elena Ferrante
Larry McMurtry
Field Notes Trailhead edition
Field Notes Harvest edition
Smoke Hole Sessions with Martin Shaw
Saint George’s Day
The Other Paris by Luc Sante
Erasable Podcast
How to Win Nano Podcast
Wine and Crime Podcast
Pentel Energel Euro
Pen Addict 485
15 NaNoWriMo Strategies for Desperate Moments
We get into it on appliances singing songs to us, the perils of the corn maze, fencing studio signage and wisdom, we skirt the Waymo suits, Ted shares some meme-worthy tombstone inscriptions, and of course we ponder trying National Novel-Writing Month.
Main Street Books Davidson - Use the code TAKENOTE for 20% off (not including shipping)
Take Note Tweet of Oct. 8
Ted misnamed Lydia Davis (it’s not Laurie Anderson), regarding a Granta story about the voices of everyday things, can’t find the link
At North Farm by John Ashberry
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings
Colson Whitehead and Nabokov using index cards, Take Note blog
Main Street Books Davidson - Use the code TAKENOTE for 20% off (not including shipping)
Commander Cody on Letterman
"The beauty, eccentricity, and precariousness of life on the river side of the New Orleans levees." (The source of that beached corpse quote)
Waxahatchee
Rockin' the Suburbs Podcast
My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy
At North Farm
The Silken Tent
Adam reads the same poem all month and finds a discrepancy at the wire, Ted bakes in peacetime, Adam witnesses some A-plus sideline coaching, and we discuss what it’s like to misplace a notebook. We also discuss the new Field Notes Harvest edition.
Visit Main Street Books Davidson, order a book, and enter TAKENOTE at checkout for 20% off (not including shipping)!
The Silken Tent by Robert Frost
King Arthur Baking Company baguette-making tutorial
Field Notes Harvest edition
My Quotable Kid from Chronicle Books
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: Get reading for episode 140!
Main Street Books Discount Code: TAKENOTE
Fancy Chimpanzee Ryan Slie
Humblebrag
CW Pencils Closing
Field Notes 52 coming September 20
The Joys of Reading Many Books at Once
Adam and Ted discuss Sally Rooney’s new book Beautiful World, Where Are You?, but not before revisiting a decades-old saxaphony scandal, re-learning how to be in the world, bringing out the tried and true “Stickin’ With It” segment, and prepping Adam to start a month-long poetry-reading project.
We lead the show with an endorsement of Main Street Books in Davidson, NC. Order your books online from an indie bookstore, where they really care about books! Enter code TAKENOTE for 20% off (not including shipping costs).
I Think You Should Leave by Tim Robinson
r/panelshow
r/extinct_hockey
The Silken Tent by Robert Frost
V by Tony Harrison
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Adam and Ted discuss purch, long sentences, and hyperobjects
Swann's Way
Javier Marias
Henry James
Lydia Davis Essays One
Cuyahoga
Timothy Morton's Hyper-Pandemic
Tales of the Big Bend
Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence
Timothy Morton talks on Youtube
Adam visits the whiskey room and tries to make a mystery out of it, Ted observes the goings on at the farmer’s market lemonade stand, Adam works on summarizing stories simply to learn about stories, and we go on about George Saunders and Ezra Klein and stories and whatnot.
Field Notes Trailhead
Uni Jetstream
Uniball One .38
The terrible Rhodia pencil
Ottessa Moshfegh
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
The Dead Hotel by Kevin Powers on the Stinging Fly
The Ezra Klein Show with George Saunders
Stainless Steel Lamy 2000
Simon Rich
Moose Drool Brown Ale
A Fire in Minnesota. An Arrest in Mexico. Cameras Everywhere.
Hugh Jackman thing
Ernest Hemingway PBS
New Yorker 2021 Summer Fiction Issue
Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney profile by Lauren Collins
Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" [Full text]
We discuss the new releases from Blackwing and Field Notes before whaddya gotting as Adam anticipates a mid-life crisis as indicated by an interest in whales, the Kindred Spirit mailbox on the North Carolina beach (a bit of heavy content there, so TW), and delve further into our ongoing meditation on notebook usage for creative writing.
Field Notes Trailhead
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (actually published in 1998, not 1987 as I joked about)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Blackwing Lab 7.29.21 non-repro blue pencil
Kindred Spirit mailbox
UNC Wilmington archive
The blackest ink
Apica C.D. Notebook
Narwhal fountain pen
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People podcast
Timothy Morton appears on Beatie Wolfe’s podcast at dublab
New Yorker Summer Fiction issue
The Libby app by Overdrive, for libraries
Tudor Trilogy
Ali Smith on Start the Week
Be The Serpent Podcast
Neapolitain Novels
No Plot? No Problem
How To Write One Song
We discuss what to do with the joists, refreshment concepts, adjacency to John Malkovich, handwriting ergonomics, and Ted improvises a rainy walk to work.
Josh Gondelman’s podcast, Make My Day
It Never Ends by Tom Scharpling
UCLA Ergonomics - Handwriting for Healthy Hands
Field Notes 50th
PaperMate Flair
My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante
It’s the summertime, and Adam and Ted rap about hair stylist conversations, our shared love of Sport Clips, ghost kitchens, commonplace books, and Ted’s dramatic rediscovery of the memo.
Salads Here (just don’t)
A Capitol Records memo shared by Ryan Walsh on Twitter
Sweet Theft by JD McClatchy
Letts Travelers
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Paul Holdengräber on dublab
Field Notes End Papers
No More Jockeys
Wes Anderson’s film soundtracks play an outsized role in both of our lives, so we decided to hold a draft. Who will win? What does winning mean in this context? Who knows?! Plus, a buddhist chant gifted, a summer beverage series entry that includes some beverage confusion, and ballpark rules violations.
Pilot Precise V5
Dependency (Copenhagen Trilogy) by Tove Ditlevsen
BBC World War 2 - Witness History radio shorts (The Fall of Paris)
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Uniball Air
The Story of Film by Mark Cousins
We are joined by Ryan Slie to discuss the fiftieth edition of Field Notes, Blackwing's Independent Bookstore pencils, and how these companies differentiate between their quarterly editions and their collaborations that don't go to subscribers. We also shop the closet to appreciate some slightly older stationery items.
Ryan Slie at Fancy Chimpanzee
Cesar Aira's Ghosts
Jonathan Lethem's "The Crooked House"
Pleonasm
Nanami Seven Seas Notebook
Letts Travelers
Standard Memorandum 2021
Field Notes End Papers
Field Notes Fifty
Pop-Tone paper has been used in Field Notes Just Below Zero, Packet of Sunshine, and Sweet Tooth editions
Main Street Books, Davidson, NC
Blackwing Independent Bookstore Pencils
We discuss why Field Notes is special as they launch their 50th quarterly edition. We go on to talk about: an unfinished finished puzzle; a BFG lexicon; connecting with cute dogs across the street; newspaper target practice; very strong feelings against the Sunday style section; ancient charlatans; and reading a magazine backwards.
Pilot Precise V5
Sakura Pigma Micron
Matt Thomas, who used to read the entire Sunday New York Times
“The Rules of the Confidence Game” by Anna Della Subin, NY Review of Books
Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists
The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth
Field Notes releases its 50th quarterly edition
Field Notes Kraft
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Bill Wittliff
In A Narrow Grave
John Graves
Edward Hoagland
Pilot Precise V5
Billy Collins MasterClass
John Ashbery
Podcasting luminary Tim Wasem of Erasable joins us to chat books, songwriting, the forthcoming Plumbago music zine, and more.
Erasable podcast
Plumbago
Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Q: Into the Storm
Field Notes Clandestine
My Octopus Teacher
Hemingway PBS
Sailor Pro Gear Realo
Montegrappa Pens
Kansas City Star Style Guide
Edna O'Brien
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang
"You put your weed in it" sketch
Sharpie Metallic Bronze
Pentel Sign Pens
Monocle "Open Book"
Little Otsu
Adam Boardman
Headwear to get you there, new terminology to capture this particular time, Adam airs some grievances, and Ted provides an update on his vinyl treasure trove. We also have the chance to try out and discuss some very nice products from Letts of London and FiloFax.
VACCINATED hat
Ezra Klein interviews Ted Chiang about AI
Blackwing 223 (Woody Guthrie edition)
Letts of London
Filofax
Letts Legacy Slim Notebook
Letts Icon Book Travel Journal
Filofax Clipbook
Filofax Notebook Architexture
The Sympathizer
Erwin Kreuz
Tupelo Honey
Professor Longhair - The Last Mardi Gras
Field Notes Underland
Kinokuniya
Pilot Juice Up .04
Zebra Sarasa Vintage
Uni Style*Fit (it appears that this is typically a multi-pen but they now offer them as these slender singles)
We dive in on the things you can learn by reading a magazine backwards, how your viewpoint can change when you decide you are writing in a log rather than a diary, and how the shape of a notebook can shape what you do with it.
Ted Lasso
Power paste
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People podcast
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Ziggy Marley talks to Malcolm Gladwell on the Broken Record podcast
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Roni Horn in the New York Times
2009 Eggo Shortage
Notebook of Anton Chekhov
Anvil Cards
Wilco X Field Notes
Pilot G-2
Muji Notebooks
Muji Underwear
A Man of Many Moods by Burke Nixon
Bob Dylan BU Armory Setlist (11/10/00)
The 12 Caesars
Dick Biondi
"My Own Version of You"
Night Shop
Cut Worms
Vikingur Olaffson "Reflections"
Christian Lee Hutson
Buck Meek
n+1
Ryan's Field Notes Shuttle Deader Print
Renato Bialetti
Letts of London
Baron Fig Squire
Field Notes Dime Novel
Field Notes Signature
Field Notes Commerorative Reprints
What's on Adam's Desk? Baron Fig Confidant Planner
Nanami Cafe Notebook
What's on Ted's Desk
Inventor of the Index Card
The pleasures and limitations of sharpening pencils with knives, DIGging into some new pencil products – and one very old one -- work notebooks, and memorable temp jobs.
Nuro
Kirkland Signature Logo T-Shirt
Normcore
Wet and gushy
Everyday Ichiro
Pilot Metropolitan
Lamy Safari
TWSBI
Kaweco
Kaweco Frosted Coconut Ballpoint
Pen Addict Top Five
What's on Adam's Desk
How to Write One Song
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Nuro
Kirkland Signature Logo T-Shirt
Normcore
Wet and gushy
Everyday Ichiro
Pilot Metropolitan
Lamy Safari
TWSBI
Kaweco
Kaweco Frosted Coconut Ballpoint
Pen Addict Top Five
What's on Adam's Desk
How to Write One Song
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Adam and Ted travel down yet another side road to discuss Michael Chabon’s first novel, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH.
Sidenote: 30 Years of Slacker
Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Fountain City, Chabon’s “wrecked” novel
The real “cloud factory” in Pittsburgh
Raising Arizona by the Coen Brothers
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Lydia Davis Essays One
Sparrow (Poet)
Field Notes X Wilco
Dime Box, TX
Oliver (Hannah Montana)
Papier Tigre Memory products
Accidentally Wes Anderson
Laser Cats
Pencils You Should Know
World of Wonders
Artforum by Cesar Aira
Caste
Daily Stoic
Doxology by Nell Zink
The Earth Dies Streaming
A.S. Hamrah Best Movies of 2000
The Hardest Job in the World
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
House of Glass
Killers of the Flower Moon
Voice of Chernobyl
We Cast A Shadow
Stealing Home
Baron Fig planner
Knickerbocker watch cap from Manready Mercantile
Japanese Goshi shower towel
Hail Caesar!
Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
Ted Lasso
How To with John Wilson
Stuff in Our House, where you can watch the Tweedy Show
Blackwing Eras
Field Notes Snowy Evening
Field Notes National Parks
Blackwing X Hardest Job in the World by John Dickerson
Nanami Seven Seas Writer
Field Note sHeavy Duty
Monocle
The Saturday Guardian
Plumbago zine from the Erasable crew
APBA baseball
Topo Chico Augmented Reality Experience
33 Best Soups in Chicago
The Atlantic Donald Hall Documentary
Field Notes Snowy Evening
Bugle Pencil (Tinted)
Nataraj Stripes
E+M Pencil Extender
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Cloak and Dagger
His Girl Friday
How much should a notebook tell you how to use it? We discuss while battling turkey fever and Blackwing teasers.
NYTimes Turkey Pho recipe
OK Connery from the most recent episode of Sound of Cinema
Blackwing Volume 6 teaser
Baron Fig Guided Editions
Word Notebooks 2021 Standard Memorandum
Sports Stories newsletter - subscribe!
Shane MacGowan Hell's Ditch
Shane MacGowan: If I Should Fall From Grace on Kanopy
Traveler's Notebook Passport
Lamy Vista
Field Notes Day Game
Blackwing Eraser Solution
Ted's November 9 Playlist
The Front Bottoms
Adam's 2005 Mix CD
John Prine on his song "Lake Marie"
Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Field Notes Group 11
Bobo’s Hot Dogs
How To Write One Song
Be the Serpent podcast
Eyes on Cinema twitter
Under the Tuscan Sun
The Happy Life of Diane Lane
The Phantom Menace
Firehouse Subs
How To Write One Song
Citycast
Radio France
Radiooooo
Khruangbin
Teju Cole Spotify
The centennial episode features a characteristically under-stated celebration with Ryan, Ted, and Adam looking back to notebooks from a more innocent time, then reflecting on how our note-taking habits have evolved over time.
Pilot Metropolitan
Field Notes Northerly
Cavallini & Co. notebook
Field Notes Mt. Rainier
CW Pencil Enterprise
Greer Chicago
Atlas Stationers
Dromgoole’s in Houston, TX
Caran D’Ache Grafwood and mini 541
Viking Element 2
Papier Tigre
Enjoy this trip down memory lane. Here are some favorite moments from the first ten episodes. Yes, the first few clips have our vocals isolated on opposite channels. I wasn’t going for a binaural effect, I was just really screwing things up a couple years ago.
Fall is in the air, the yard pools are all packed away, and beach house walls are talking. Adam and Ted cover the latest from Field Notes, some new stationery additions, and the pleasures of smelling nice for once.
Links:
Rhine Hall, host of Adam’s e-cocktails birthday party
Thomas Kinkade, the painter of light
CW Pencils cap
Monocle Magazine
Baron Fig Pen Stand
Dromgoole’s, Houston TX
Nanami Paper Seven Seas Tomoe River
Rhodia Composition Book
DS and Durga fragrance
Field Notes United States of Letterpress
Field Notes Empty Bottle
Ohto Liberty
Ohto Horizon
Simulation Hypothesis
The Farm in the Green Mountains
Pica
CW Pencil Enterprises
J. Herbin Poussière de Lune Ink
Bullet Pencils
Uniball Jetstream Ballpoint
David Lynch Theater
Field Notes Day Game
Blackwing Vol. 19
Blackwing Eras
Gilmore Guys
The Big Con
Field Notes National Parks, including Series E (Olympic, Denali, Cuyahoga Valley)
Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty
Art Set 4 on the iPad
Artist Jorge Colombo
SABR Membership
Spaghetti Warehouse
Louis Armstrong Desert Island Discs
Field Notes National Park
Field Notes Day Game
Uniball Signo 153 Black Blue
Sharpie Gel Pen
Blackwing X Hardest Job in the World Pencils
Blackwing Eras
Blackwing Volumes XIX
Oxford Pennant Company
Analog Kickstarter
IKEA Bergennes Phone Holder
APBA Baseball
A Feminist SF Anthology
Jorge Luis Borges talking to William F. Buckley, Jr.
Scythe at Merriam-Webster
Field Notes Grand Canyon National Park
Traveler’s Notebook - Passport sized
Ewan takes over my Zequenz notebook on vacation
Slacker reviewed by Roger Ebert
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Blog post: Ted’ writing advice, take it or leave it
John Dickerson x Blackwing pencils
The Hardest Job in the World By John Dickerson
Blackwing Era
Field Notes Glitch on Take Note
Field Notes End Papers
Haruki Murakami: The Day I Became A Novelist
Parbuckle's Coffee
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Jonathan Richman
We Cast A Shadow
Field Notes Signature
Field Notes Dime Novel
Baron Fig Confidant Plus
Billy Collins MasterClass
Blackwing Eras
Zequenz Notebook
Wreck This Journal
Field Notes End Papers
Tombow Unions hat
Daniel Johnston hat from the Hi, How Are You? project
Song Exploder with Khruangbin
Jet Pens
Baron Fig Squire
Uniball Signo UM-153 blue-black
Uniball Signo DX .5 blue-black
Traveller’s Notebook refills
Kaweco Skyline Sport Clutch
Adam’s Pencil Post
Mitsubishi Mark Sheet White
Blackwing 10001
Marina Hyde
The other dimbulbery guy
Bob Dylan and the Atomic Bomb
Field Notes End Papers
Muji Polycarbonate Selectable Gel Ink Pen
MUJI US Bankruptcy
Mont Blanc Beatles Purple Ink
The Hardest Job in the World
John Dickerson on the Important Urgent Matrix
Priority Matrix by Appfluence
Field Notes Heavy Duty X Magnetic Tape collab
Viarco Magneto pencil
The Tweedy Show car show
Field Notes Vignette edition
Khruangbin t-shirts
Franklin Christoph Model 20
Field Notes Deader Prints
Austin Kleon
New Yorker fiction issue (Murakami, Cline, and Hemingway)
Lance Henriksen
The Remains of the Day
BookCrossing
Vice Movie
A Wizard of Earthsea
Blackwing Volume 3
T Magazine Silk Road
Field Notes Deader Prints
Casio F91W
Field Notes Heavy Duty
Doane Paper
Field Notes Front Page
Mark McConville
Pistol Shrimps Radio
Rollbahn
Field Notes Third Man Records (Dot graph, graph, and lined.)
CW Pencils Subscription Box
General Pencil Co.
General's Cedar Pointe #1
General's Notation Pencil
General's Color-Tex Carmine
General's Sketch & Wash
General's Softa
General's Tel-E-Marker
Mr. Sketch Scented Marker
Forest Choice Pencil
Musgrave Tennessee Red
An arthritis commercial mesmerizes Adam and his family, and other rips in the fabric of space-time. The rip unleashes an old email about Jimmy Buffett tunes.
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Blues Format AAB
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Circus Came to Town, Then It Couldn't Leave
Remembering the 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus
Field Notes Kraft
Trivia Hall of Fame
Strat-o-Matric
APBA Baseball
Liberty!
The 400 Blows
Bob Dylan San Francisco Press Conference 1965
Mavis!
Kanopy.com
Field Notes Deader Prints
Field Notes Vignette
Musgrave Tennessee Red Cedar Pencils
Musgrave Single Barrel 106 (Ted totally botched this in the episode)
We're hosting a meetup on May 23 at 11 PM Eastern/8 Pacific. There will be a real trivia game with a leaderboard, buzzers, and general knowledge trivia (plus some stationery Qs thrown in). Sign up at bit.ly/takenotetrivia
The Q Queue
How I Filled My Second Coronavirus Notebook
Field Notes Deader Prints
Aaron Draplin Pretty Much Everything
Field Notes Rooster 2019
Mitsubishi Nanodia
Uni-Ball Jetstream .7
Super Mario Maker 2
R72-1KS-4LG
Lakitu
Indigofera Notebook
Killers of the Flower Moon
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Denny's in Adam's Village
Bernina Pass Train Video
Dr. Grip Pen
CW Pencils
Ryan Slie
Color Block Pencil
Koh-I-Noor 3400
Koh-I-Noor Magic
Tennessee Red
Caran D'ache 541
Craft Design Set of 3 Pencils
Satantango by Bela Tarr
Steve Coogan on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
Nathaniel Rateliff on Song Exploder
Music Exists with Chuck Klosterman
Sugar Calling with Cheryl Strayed
Best American Essays 2013 ed. Cheryl Strayed
Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
2010 Best American Sports Writing
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Boomtown by Sam Anderson
Paul Theroux on taking notes in strange times for NYT
PitchersandPoets.com
To learn more about theosophy and the zoot suite riots, read the book!
Djuma Dam Wild Earth Live Stream
Mario Speed Run videos
n+1
Laura Marling
Fiona Apple
Bill Frissell
John Fahey
Víkingur Ólafsson's Glass Étude No. 5
Kundun Soundtrack
Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
Fancy Chimpanzee by Ryan Slie, full of great short fiction and sketches
Schon design pocket 6 pen
Field Notes American Elm
Wild Earth - Djuma Preserve Web Cam
Baron Fig Vanguard notebooks
Baron Fig Trace notebook
Tennessee Red by Musgrave
Caran D’Ache Swiss color set
Kitaboshi Beginning Pencil
Washi tapes from Jet Pens
Our homepage: takenote.space
Library of Congress: Your Personal Archive
Staple Day
Hackwing
Roger Ebert on John Prine
Mead wirebound memo book
Burk Uzzle
Grandpa Was a Carpenter
Help the Aged
Hello in There
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
Bookshop
Main Street Books, Davidson, NC
Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX
Literati Books, Ann Arbor
City Lit Books, Chicago
Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
Nathan Hale, graphic novelist
Erasable podcast
Erasable group on Facebook
Kishi Bashi
Hacksaw Jim Duggan
Josh Ritter Instagram
Lucius Instagram
Courtney Barnett
Susan Tweedy
Ben Gibbard
Beginning Pencil
Field Notes Chicago Flag
Travelers Notebook
NanoDia - Actual Diamond Pencil Incorrectly Referecned in the Show
UniBall Jetstream 0.7
FIeld Notes Vignette
Field Notes XOXO 2019
In The Great Green Room
Field Notes Northerly Edition
Shakespeare and Co.
Monocle Magazine Issue 130
Kubrick’s Boxes on takenote.space
Sailor Ink Studio #760 at Dromgoole’s
Flaming Lips - ZAIREEKA
Field Notes Vignette
Arlington Heights Residents Are Fed Up With the Lost And Late Mail
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Flaneuse
Proust Will Change Your Life
Ten Rotisserie Chickens, Ranked
CW Pencil Box
NJK 531S Sharpener
In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn't Just a Chocolate
Traveler's Company Brass Pencil Holder
Four & Nine in Napa Valley
Mrs. Grossman's Stcker Factory
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Musgrave USA 320 Harvest
Erasable Live from the Baltimore Pen Show
Pen Addict #400
The Salt Storage Handbook
Dome Corporation
Dog in suitcase story origin
Baron Fig x Erasable
Field Notes Group Eleven
Blackwing Vol 42
Indigofera Field Notebook
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
The I Ching
Bob Ross
The Great Portrait Artist TV Show
Mexico One Plate at a Time
Yoga for People That Can’t Be Bothered To Do It by Geoffrey Dyer
Chicago Boardgame Cafe
Field Notes 5e Character Journal
Strat-O-Matic
Austin Kleon turning books into time capsules
Book Crossing
I posted on the blog about finding Kavalier & Clay
Blackwing with its new look
The Erasables talk Blackwing redesign in this episode
Baron Fig Work/Play edition
Midori Traveler’s Notebook
Apsara Platinum Extra Dark Pencil
Write Notepads In the Pines
Camel HB Pencil
Paper Mate Flair
Death of George Washington
Raina Telgemeier
The Sixth Extinction
BD Fungus
Closing Time on Song Exploder
"Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop
Google Photos Edit Date
Daniel Johnston 2017
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Sports Stories by Eric Nusbaum
Adam Villacin
Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
Stealing Home with Marc Harmon
Werner Herzog on writing versus filmmaking
OF WALKING IN ICE by Werner Herzog
The Little in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Blackwing 54
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Field Notes Group 11
Bronze Kaweco Sport
Write In The Pines edition
Camel HB pencil
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Field Notes End Papers
Fancy Chimpanzee
Wilco Field Notes
Mitsubishi 10B pencil
Art Supply Posse podcast
Papier Tigre
CW pencils subscription box
Yoshimi Tokui appologizes
Camel Pencil Catalog
Wilco "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" Live at the Chicago Theater
Kanopy
Heartworn Highways Revisited
Best American Essays 2019
My Father Says He's A Targeted Individual. Maybe We All Are.
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Write Notepad In the Pines
Norderly Co
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Wilco X Field Notes
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Texas Ren Fest
Camel HB
CW Pencil Baseball Scoring Pencil
Field Notes Pencil
Machine Era Field Pen Twist
Itoya Aqualroller Refill
Everyman Grafton Pen
Mile Marker Field Notes
Waistcoat!
Staedtler Mars Technico
CW Pencil Box
Kuratoga Advanced Mechanical Pencil
Caran d'Ache Edelweiss
Uni Nano Dia Pencil
Viarco Magneto
Kakuyo Kadokeshi Eraser
Hook
- wilco field notes books
- terrace house
- almodovar
- Erasable facebook page
- ikea pencils
- field notes elemental edition
- ambition edition
- national parks edition
- xoxo 2019 edition
- maja dlugolecki
- Neenah royal sundance felt
- nanowrimo
Wilco X Field Notes
Palomino Golden Bear
Camel HB
Craft Design Technology Leather Pencil Cap
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Jenny Bick Notebook Cover
Palomino Blackwing 811
The Suburbs
Loka. The compostable dry erase marker.
REM Monster 25
Two out of three Erasable hosts joined us to talk about NaNoWriMo. Thanks to Johnny Gamber (the first voice you’ll hear), Tim Wasem, and Andy Welfle (who edited the episode).
Dromgoole’s Fine Writing Instruments, Houston
The Pen Addict by Brad Dowdy
Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
Robert Earl Keen
@coffeemike
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Rhodia pencils
Jerry Seinfeld
NanoWrimo
The Most Dangerous Writing App
Wilco X Field Notes
Lami Safari Red
Diamene Salander Ink Reviewed at Pen Addict
Dromgoole's
Brewer's Advent Calendar
Lucy Dacus
Liza Ann
Magic Eye
Cup Game
Wilco Live at Brooklyn Steel
John Waters' Role Model
Serial Mom
Nomatic
Hipster PDA
Bellroy Note Sleeve
How to Win Nano
NaNoWriMo: 9 Steps to Build A Strong Plot
In this episode, Adam and Ted gather their thoughts and rally the creative troops for NanoWrimo, parse 90s sitcom visual style, and analyze the economics of the everything bagel.
Adam’s fall music: Bob Dylan,The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)
Lawrence Azerrad
Billy starring Bill Connolly
Ballpoint from Papier Tigre
NanoWrimo
Field Notes National Parks Yosemite notebook
GGM oral history
Elif Batuman “Short Story & Novel”
How To Be A Poet by Wendell Berry
The Membership Podcast
Velocity by Billy Collins
Billy
Field Notes Autumn Trilogy
Field Notes Shenandoah
Red Lamy Safari
Jonathan Lethem's Oddball Trove
Chekhov's Note-Book
My Struggle Book One
NanoWrimo
Classic summer beverage the Jalapeno Cheddar Cheetos
Marc Maron, WTF
Field Notes National Parks
TWSBI Diamond 580
Wilco x Field Notes
Clairefontaine Flying Spirit
Midori Traveller's Notebook, Passport size
Muji notebooks
Golden Bear pencils from Palomino
Adam's prompts
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
From the Pen Cup by Mary
Nanami Seven Seas Notebook
1857 podcast
Field Notes headquarters one of Chicago's Coolest in 2018 Crain's
Jim Coudal, our gracious host at FNHQ
CWPE Camel Pencil
Pop A Point Pencil
Caran d'Ache Supacolor
Nataraj Marble Pencil
J.R. Moon Big Dipper
Mossery Thumb Stickers
Herb Lester Hotel Empire Notepad
Yamato Glue Stick
Matomaru-Kun Sticker
Sportea
Midori MD Paper Notebook Light
Gelly Roll Pens
And How Are You Dr. Sacks?
Rhodia Bloc No. 10
NanoWriMo
Ira Glass on Creative Work
No Plot? No Problem!
Ted learns something shocking about Adam before they delve into grocery shopping list analysis, including the best deal on lentils; Ted gets a mail call of pencils and a familiar pen from Adam; Adam goes for a nice, long walk; then they dig deep about Facebook and Ted's ship-jumping from the platform.
Mindhunter
Deerfeeder
French school lunches
Bringing Up Bébé
Sharpie Pen
Pigma Micron
J Herbin Corail Des Tropiques
Kiri-same Iroshizuku
TWSBI ECO
Aspara Elephant Jumbo Pencils
Kutsuwa Metal Pencil Caps
Kutsuwa Highlighter Pencil
Craft Design Technology Pencil Cap
Adam and Ted bring in the school year with a bevy of whaddya gots, checking in on the Wilco x Field Notes and Clairefontaine, extol what they’ve stuck with for years, and talk note-taking and page-ripping.
Taking a different approach in this Sidenote, Ted takes you along his Parisian stationery excursion. With a reprieve from Paris through the kids-eye view, he takes inspiration from Flaneuse by Lauren Elkin, bouncing from the delightful Papier Tigre to the chic Papier Plus and the venerable Melodies Graphiques. Enjoy something a little different from Take Note, and let us know what you think and what else you’d find interesting.
Monet's Garden in Giverny
An American Band
Spotify Wants Its Money Back
Blackwing 42
Mitsubishi All-White Marksheet
Flaneuse
Papier Tigre
Papier Plus
Melodies Graphiques
The Milk Room
Monocle Summer Weekly
Clairefontaine
Apocryphal Mark Twain Quotes
Mineko Grimmer
What Heard That?
Cornell boxes at Menil
James Turrell at MASS MoCA
Leuchterm 1917 Bauhaus
Ebbetsfield Tombow Unions
Erasable #120
Erasabale #121
Wilco Ode to Joy Pre-Order with Pencil
Wilco Case In Point Pencil Set
Ode to Joy Cover Designed by Lawrence Azerrad
Wilco X Field Notes Box
Adam's current notebook & pen
The Pawful Truth
Schlitterbahn
Uni-Ball Jetstream 1.0
The Daily Stoic
If You're Angry, You're Part of the Problem
Five-Year Diary by Tamara Shopsin
Unable to Focus, OK with That
Field Notes Wilco edition from the Solid Sound festival
Souldier Guitar Straps (and belts), Chicago, IL
Field Notes Summer 2019 National Parks Edition
Shawna X and the XOXO edition (Ted said Sherry X in the episode)
Big Bend National Park
Three Missions (see the video where they shoot a thing into space)
Begin the Begin: REM's Early Years
Slacker by Richard Linklater
Seth on Design Matters that Adam didn't quote
Emmanuel Carrere quoting Ludwig Borne:
It’s a piece of advice given by the German Romantic Ludwig Börne. “For three successive days, force yourself to write, without denaturalizing or hypocrisy, everything that crosses your mind. Write what you think of yourself, your wives, Goethe, the Turkish war, the Last Judgment, your superiors, and you will be stupefied to see how many new thoughts have poured forth. That is what constitutes the art of becoming an original writer in three days.”
Wilco X Field Notes
Solid Sound Festival
The Story Pirates
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy
Take Note Episode 33
A Ghost is Born
R.
Ryan Slie’s Fancy Chimpanzee
Notebook Prompts by Adam
Clairefontaine Collection 1951
Nanami Seven Seas Microdot notebook
George Eliot “The Lifted Veil”