Take Note

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.

Ryan Slie joins us (which he does every tenth episode) to talk about fiction, factions, fractions, and other distractions.

This week we dream about reality, meet virtually, cross books Bookcrossingly, and discuss Blackwing Volume 3.

We discuss Field Notes Summer release, Heavy Duty, and the edition they've made for Third Man Records. Plus the Summer pencil box from CW Pencils.

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.