Take Note

In this episode, we talk about t-shirt scams that aren't scams, losing your notebook, clipping and pasting things, tabletop baseball, and Take Note's trivia night. This episode was recorded before the recent protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd in the United States and beyond. Black lives matter.

A murder mystery so mysterious it may not even exist, and we talk more Deader Prints, French New Wave cinema, Musgrave, and more.

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

Adam and Ted discuss Field Notes Deader Prints, keeping a coronavirus notebook, Monocle magazine, and more.

An ugly pen, some new pencils, an underground level, train videos, and a Denny's accident.

We are pleased to welcome Eric Nusbaum to the podcast. The author of Stealing Home discusses researching a book-length work, the joyous little stories that emerge from research, and how he wove together the narrative strands of family, politics, and baseball. Eric also describes some fantastic stationery he uncovered in his research.

We bring our notebooks to southern Louisiana and the Kruger National Park of South Africa without leaving our homes. How do we moderate our media diet? What music are we unwinding to? These are not just rhetorical questions, they are the content of the show.

It’s a decasode so that means we are joined by occasional co-host Ryan Slie and we share some whaddya gots, talk quarantine stationery purchases, and how we’re getting by and hoping you are too,

Ted plays archivist with his journals. Adam plays quizmaster with notebook slang. Plus notes on John Prine and a mysterious suitcase for a MacGuffin.

Adam tangles the threads of reality and fiction in the latest episode of our podcast about notebooks and pens and pencils, while our co-hosts struggle to come up with pithy and amusing anecdotes, instead settling for an invigorating conversation between friends about routines new and old and using note-taking to get by. Adam also gives you some tools to support indie bookstores. Plus: we will be reading and discussing Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum, so read ahead!

Intro music: The Strapping Fieldhands “In the Pineys”