Take Note

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Take Note episodes

May 29, 2024 Episode 202: Pun Mum
Field Note Arceo edition
Doane Grid + Lines Notebook
The Last Kind Word Saloon
Norcom Spiral Notebook
Paul Auster Obit
Alice Munro Obit
24 min
May 09, 2024 Episode 201: New York Apples
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
30 min
April 22, 2024 Episode 200: Eclipse (Not That One)
Ryan Slie joins Adam and Ted as they bring their notebooks back to the grocery store. Also, there's a few notebooks of the week and we've shared what we've learned over the last six years about stationery, keeping a notebook, and life.
40 min
April 21, 2024 Episode 200: Eclipse (Not That One)
Doane Paper Gridlines Idea Book
Denik Notebooks
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
Jeff Tweedy How To Write One Song
40 min
April 05, 2024 Episode 199: Paul Jackson of baseball storytelling Project 3.18
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
43 min
April 01, 2024 Episode 198: Only the Present Moment
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
34 min
March 16, 2024 Episode 197: Voluptuous Staples
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
32 min
February 27, 2024 Episode 196: Mountaintop

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
34 min
February 05, 2024 Episode 195: The end of the moment before the internet
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
36 min
January 30, 2024 Episode 194: My Time in the Ballet

Papermate Flair
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Three Potato Four Notebook
Across the Moominverse
Weird Science
29 min