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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

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

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

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...

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

The Vertigo by WG Sebald reading project continues, Adam pushes Mitt, and Ted has a denim jacket project. Vertigo by WG Sebald , book club! Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley Foundation by Isaac Asimov the only Bob Dylan patch

Gabbert Quote and Olives Pic Deep Vellum D For Dapper The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert Exteriors by Annie Ernaux World Within A Song by Jeff Tweedy   Vertigo by WG Sebald

Adam adjusts to getting glasses for distance and gives small business the business.  Write notebooks Field Notes Patreon: jump in to receive the annual commonplace zine

The Official Netflix Cookbook Amazon Has Hollywood's Worst Shows but it's Best Business Model Field Notes Birch Bark Field Notes Heartland Dan McCarthy

Dapper Notes – Enon Avital’s unique, beautiful notebooks covered in lush paper and fabric and filled with excellent paper – occupy a special place in the notebook landscape. Brimming with color and texture, they elevate the pocket notebook to an art form, and the hand of their creator quite literally graces every book. Enon is that creator, and we had a lovely time learning why he started producin...

Candy Cane Green Tea Clairefontaine Mini Notebooks Pocket Leuchttturm Evan Osnos' China's Age of Malaise Apple Store Employees Can't Use These Words Essayism Sara Levine Lindsay Hunter's Hot Springs Drive Maria Bamford Wilco at Metro

Ted and Adam hone their predatory instincts by writing daily poems. Field Notes Foiled Again Megatherium Creature Conservancy Daniel Clowes - Monica Last of the Summer Wine Patreon Email us at takenotecentral@gmail.com

Lemn Sissay Lemn Sissay and Lebogang Mashile on Start the Week The Trumpet of the Swan How Emilly Wilson Made Homer Wilson Modern Emily Wilson YouTube Field Notes Birch Bark   Field Notes Shelterwood Robert Frost Birches Vandals Who Trashed Robert Frost's Home Take Poetry Classes as Penance Dromgoole's Clairefontaine Collection Atlas Stationers' Clairefontaine Collection Sakura BallSign ID Bl...

Ted and Adam navigate numerous potential false memories. Adam remembers his trip to Poland – and a unique stationery store – quite well. Adam also runs through a haul of Japanese stationery.  Texas Instruments model 104 watch Top Drawer Helvetica pen Midori Grain memo pad Olga Tokarczuk Ro-Biki notebook Kinokuniya Katy

Field Notes Tin O Darts Field Notes Harvest Daniel Johnston and Wilco Field Notes Foiled Again Retirement the Margaritaville Way

Summer is almost over, so what could be more appropriate than breaking down the stories in the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue ? Ryan Slie joins us, to our delight.  Sign up for the Substack newsletter! Field Notes DDC Standard Issue Factory Floor   Elton John’s “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” Houston Astro Bill Doran Field Notes Kraft - Amber Dapper Notes

Walking In Memphis "The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff Lauren Groff New Novel Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles Birnam Wood by Eleanor Cattan 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Oliver Burkeman Archive at The Guardian Dickerson on the Urgent/Important Matrix

Summer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more. Some Came Running Lauren Groff  Georges Simenon JustWatch Field Notes Dapper Notes Mulholland Drive Always Take Notes

Solarpunk Judge John Hodgman: This is the Name of Your Mullet Galveston Railroad Museum Field Notes Coffee Farm Costa Rica Field Notes DDC Logos Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak Jesse Ball Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker Adam's June 2023 Playlist (Apple Music) (Spotify) The Wager by David Grann The Collected Maxims of W.G. Sebald Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Adam reflects on his experience with Martin Amis, Adam’s archive is all screwed up, Ted bounces around San Francisco and reads a couple of books. And a correction: Ryan Slie was not reading Anna Karenina. Field Notes Leap of Faith Martin Amis Kinokuniya San Francisco Lamy Flagship Store San Francisco City Lights bookstore The Real Work by Adam Gopnik

All Known Metal Bands Dapper Notes Playground Field Notes Craft Plus Pentel Calme   The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross Kundun Soundtrack Phillip Glass Eric Nusbaum on Take Note Radio 3 Record Review G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the Twentieth Century

We talk more about notebooks for a specific purpose, wherein Ted gives up on his dream journal while Adam thrives as a dream journaler. Meanwhile, Packaging World breaks news of new Pentel packaging: we break it down.  Dapper Notes Pentel Reimagines Blister Packs as Plastic-Free , Packaging World magazine Saving Time by Jenny O’Dell

We talk journals for specific purposes (aka a good excuse to start another journal) and Ted shares his books and stationery explorations in Charlotte, NC. And listener Scott B. builds on our discussion of refilling Pilot pens.   Main Street Books, Davidson, NC BOOKS! Good Postage   Elisa Gabbert Fine Point Communications Write Notepads Paper Journal Banana

John Prine "Lake Marie" The Decembrists "Don't Carry It All" Michael Marra "The Lonesome Death of Francis Clarke" Buster Keaton "One Week" Uni Ball Jetstream Uni Ball Signo 207 The Rest is Noise Kakuyo Lead Pencil 1.3 Field Notes Unexposed Dapper Notes Playground Baseball Prospectus 2023 David Lynch Weather Report Radio France La B.O. Klimt (Malkovich) Rodin BBC3 Sounds of Cinema Animals Behaving...

Adam returns from Mardi Gras to share tales of the spectacle and we ponder privacy settings spurred by news of an unsettling Roomba-related breach.  Sue Halpern: Private Eyes