Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a public library. We explore how to be a curious conversationalist and engage in an expanded discussion of using a daily worksheet to help in focusing on what’s important at work. No more letters in DenmarkTom SachsAustin Kleon
Merlin Bird IDDeja Blue is not new. Founded 1996.Alpine Cowboys BaseballRangra Theatre, Alpine, TXBohuslav Martinů's Symphony No. 5Good Postage North CarolinaMidori Traveler's Notebook PassportCavallini & Co.Inprint HoustonParis ExpressHow to Make Money in New York City Selling Pizza
Ryan joins us before the next decasode as we delve into three stories from the New Yorker’s Fiction issue (our 6th time doing it!). Alongside your regularly scheduled whaddya gots and summer beverages. A bit of saucy language…New Yorker Fiction issue (July 7-14, 2025)Happi THC seltzer
An article on The Phoenecian Scheme and Wes Anderson's "late style"Christiana Amanpour and Wes AndersonThe Big Picture with Wes AndersonKeith BotsfordThe Music Box TheatreField Notes Film FestivalCoastal (Field Notes)Heavy Duty (Field Notes)Birds and Trees of North America (Field Notes)Harvest (Field Notes)United States of Letter Press (Field Notes)Polar Seltzer Ginger Lime Mule
A bunny-based gambling game to spice up your marriage, scenes from Las Vegas, balloon stories, a discussion of justice, and how we notebook, or want to notebook, while we travel. Plus the latest Summer Beverage Series.Bryan Cox McDonald’sKunisawaSupport Take Note on Patreon (thank you!)
- Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell- Bill Murray NYT Interview- Scion xB 2004- Any Person Is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert- Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
Ted and Adam each traveled, on their own, to New York. They talk filmgoing in the city, note-taking in the city, clock-watching in the city, etc. Program note: I couldn’t get the Uniball One Gel P pen refill to work and said as much. Soon after recording, I got it to work. It’s awesome.WilcoSturgill SimpsonPete Doherty on Tommy Tiernan’s showThe Clock at MoMAField Notes movie nightAS Hamrah
Adam beams in from a room near the lobby of a Grand Cayman hotel room to discuss what we’ve been jotting in our notebooks, app boredom, school dropoff chaos, and book recommendations. And in a new feature, Radio Take Note, we offer up two songs that are worth sharing. Book recommendationsA Gentleman in MoscowBelcantoMy Brilliant FriendLonesome DoveThe AdultAll the Light We Cannot SeeAngie McMahonSprints
Field Notes "The Chicago Look" EditionColt Bowden Sign Painting BooksPenchetta Pen and Knife StoreProfolio Oasis Notebook
Ted steps in it when comparing a local celebration to Mardi Gras, plus some impromptu haiku, real rodeo cowboy names, and notes from the baseball tournament. And a leading question: what pen is most like a pencil? Houston Livestock Show and RodeoUni Jetstream EdgePentel sign penProject 3.18’s Spring Training Story
Adam's NotebooksJust Tell Me Who It Was by John CheeverVineland by Thomas PynchonJamelle Bouie favorite film genresAnnhiliation by Jeff VanderMeerThe Acid House by Irvine WelshPablo DelcanThe Imperfectionist (Oliver Burkeman) The Secret Pentagon War Game…
It’s baseball season! To commemorate this happy time of year, Ted made an audio recording of an essay that he wrote in 2014 for a collection called “The Who, the What, and the When” put together by Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt LaMothe on the theme of historical sidekicks. Adam also contributed, as did Dan Kugler (underground legend for his work co-hosing the Slackers episode) and lots of other cool folks. In Ted’s essay, he shares a vignette about Hiroshi Arakawa, the hitting coach of Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh. Every short essay is accompanied by a staggeringly beautiful illustration. The mind-blowing illustration accompanying his essay is by the awesome Paul Windle.
Notes from between 1606 and 1607, the beauty of alternate takes, using notebooks to refine ideas, and why the pencil is a Zen object. Caravaggio essay, NYRBWilco, A Ghost is Born box setKafka’s Diarieszen
DDC x FN Turquoise TributeAt the Existensialist Cafe by Sarah BakewellInside the Fight Against a Los Angeles InfernoJokermenTurkey and the WolfCasamento'sMidori Grain Memo PadThe Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Ryan joins us as we prep for the big game with our talk of oyster restaurants, middle school recitals, and Adam’s approach to a “logbook” to track movies watched, stories read, etc.Oysters in the New York TimesBakewell’s book on existentialismMJ LendermanYou Must Remember This podcastPatreon page (thanks for your support!)
In this episode we share notes from a Texas snowstorm, journals from the olden days spark creative, a dream journaling update, a new segment, and discuss the new work from John McPhee in the New Yorker. We also announce the new book we’ll read together and discuss. Please enjoy!Stationerdy notebook from Dapper NotesOhto sharp pencilTabula Rasa Volume Five by John McPheeTake Note book club, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
The ThemeNorthwestern University Media LibraryToday's Number Is…Peggy Guggenheim Museum ShopEasy Everything Internet CafeRushmoreA Complete UnknownJoan Baez Tax Debt
It’s 2025, we look at some year-starting notebooks, discuss how one might use the Notes app with paper notebooks, and share our slate of waddya gots. Ted’s audio changes a few minutes in, sorry about that!On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej BalleOctavia Books, New OrleansFlights by olga tokarczukBrief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesRose MatafeoLamy Hardcover notebook with Lamy rulingDoane paperStandard Memorandum 2025 by Word. and designed by Jon ContinoTake Note Patreon
In the last episode of 2024, we haphazardly bring the heat, rambling from one topic to the next. We range across used bookstores, endurance in art, a notebook of the week, and a exegesis on Sirius radio.Becker’s BooksJohn K King Books, DetroitLarry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy DaughertyBookedUP AC, originally Booked Up, Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in Archer City, TexasWhite Lines notebooksThe Work of Art by Adam MossBob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio HourTake Note Patreon