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.

Light saber battles, Vermont farms in the '40s, and maybe we're all inside a computer program. Also pens from Ohto, pencils from CW, inks from J. Herbin, and pencils from the past.

David Lynch makes appearances throughout the episode, we discuss drawing and art to pass the time, Adam updates us on how we’re scaring/preparing our children, and we talk Blackwing pencils (shocking) and the new Field Notes national parks series.

This week Adam falls for the classic lemonade stand scam, Ted replaces a filter (or does he?), the wisdom of Louis Armtstrong, all the new Blackwing pencils, and more.

Ted gets back from vacation with a few thoughts, Adam and his kids develop a robust menu of curses, and we pretend to get to the bottom of the seed-mailing scam.

Ted's out this week so Adam discusses the 1990 film Slacker with guest Dan Kugler. This episode is a conversation about Slacker, which they have been talking and emailing about for years. The entire episode is about Slacker, not notebooks. The movie captures an analog lifestyle that doesn't exist anymore and is relevant to Take Note interests.

Pencils take top billing in this episode, while Ted reads a classic and Adam looks back to a notebook “glitch.”

We discuss Blackwing Eras pencils, the Zequenz Notebook, Wreck This Journal, and Parbuckle's Coffee. And briefly Ryan Walsh's Astral Weeks and Maurice Carlos Ruffin's We Cast A Shadow.

If you could only use one pencil for the rest of your days, would you choose the utilitarian standby or the flashies in the jar?

Ted and Adam discuss classic misprints, dimbulbery, the Atomic bomb, Beatles purple, task quadrants, and the goosebumpy moments of The Tweedy Show.