Take Note

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