Sometimes we don't like notebooks, and we get into it by way of Murakami and Saunders.

Field Notes Snowy Evening

Schon Design Pocket Six

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Nemone on BBC6

Lessons by Ian McEwan

Midori Traveller's Notebook

Anderson Pens Vintage Pens

Field Notes Hatch Print

Lamy Tipo

Platinum 3776

Standard Memorandum 2023

McDonald Observatory

Dapper Notes Flying To

Lady Into Fox by David Garnett

Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Dinner by Cesar Aira

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Adam provides a timely addition to the ongoing summer beverage series, we run through some new stationery acquisitions, and Ted revels in a playlist Adam culled from the far reaches of Radio France.

Costco Vonbee Honey Citron & Ginger Tea

Fourth Pres Church, Chicago

Lousy Liner recycle ink and pens

craighill.co Kepler pen

Main Street Books Davidson

DDC Draplin "Surplus Green/Hazard Yellow" Field Notes

kameterior notebooks

Dapper Notes and Stationery

Folk Songs for Fones, playlist by Adam (Spotify)

Radio France FIP

Traveler’s Notebook inserts

Substack

Patreon

Leuchtturm Notebook

Papier Plume

Hugh Laurie on The Late Show

Elba Four-Ring Paper

Freewrite

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Adam and Ted get some IRL face time, Ted watches the old Willow with the family, and Adam negotiates with his reptile guy and puts in place a backup plan. We also talk about the new Field Notes edition and 

Field Notes Kraft Plus edition

anvil cards, Houston

Field Notes Hatch Show Print edition

Huckberry x Draplin Field Notes

Take Note Substack newsletter (sign up!)

We tangle with tough questions about social media and how to break unsatisfying cycles. Meanwhile, Ted finds his missing Lamy Safari, Adam enjoys an oversharing pilot who, disturbingly, compares a plane to an old operating system, and Adam tees up a clever Irishman. 

Fiskars scissors

Lamy Safari

James Acaster

The Longships by Frans Bengtsson

Sexy Viking

Sexy Beast

Tár

Fulgentius

What’s the proper note-jotting etiquette? Notebook vs. phone? We dig into the etiquette a little further. In whaddya gots, parents must choose whether to display their allegiance, Adam spins a yarn of disrespecting Natalie Merchant via submarine sandwich, has a near-miss medical non-situation, and plans ahead with Baron Fig.

Field Notes Harvest edition

Natalie Merchant Tigerlily on Spotify

Baron Fig planner

Sakura Pigma Micron

Logan Huntzberger

HDPE Tear Tabs

Mainstreet Books Davidson

Radiolab Loops

No. 91/92 by Lauren Elkin

Prepared with a nearly full set of hex wrenches, Adam takes note of his 10th anniversary of carrying a Field Notes book in his pocket, Ted enjoys a trip to the indie record store, Adam encounters a concerned citizen, a new thrifting strategy. We also take a look at the new Field Notes edition and talk Wilco.

Vinal Edge Records

Field Notes Hatch Direct from Nashville

Blackwing 200 Coffeehouse Edition

Blackwing 55

Nakabayashi Logical Prime spiral notebooks 

Jacques Herbin Shogun

Pitchfork Review: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco