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**Take Note**

Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 161: It Stinks! Sep 22, 2022

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Field Notes Leap of Faith edition

Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias

Zebra V-301

Field Notes Green Mind Green edition

Field Notes Wilco edition

Episode 160: Magic Sunday Sep 12, 2022

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Ryan Slie joins us and brings some tales from getting to the ballpark, Adam enjoys a special day at the dive bar, we share Sunday rituals and salami slices choices, and we test inks! Riding the high from Adam’s discussion with Keith McLeary, we run through a selection of ink samples and see what lands.

Episode 159: Salty Girl Aug 30, 2022

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Ezra Klein "How We Look Matters as Much as What We See"

Nope

Weekday Matinees

Field Notes Salt Shed Notebooks

Robert Earl Keen "No. 2 Live Dinner"

Robert Earl Keen "Picnic"

Jody Rosen "White Christmas"

"Willie Nelson's Long Encore"

One True Podcast

"The Trees" by Percival Everett

"Oh William!" by Elizabeth Strout

"Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan

"Nightcrawling" by Leila Mottley

We launched a Patreon.

Episode 158: Old Silver-Plated Aug 15, 2022

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We chat about toddler hijinx on the road this summer, salty lox conundra, and Adam’s fountain pen phase, while Adam spins up some surprise endings and Ted describes the chaos of notebooking while traveling.

We launched a Patreon, so if you’d like to support the show, we’d greatly appreciate and will put everything back into it.

Lamy 2000

Field Notes "The Great Lakes"

Fancy Chimpanzee from Ryan Slie

Nanami Seven Seas Writer

French Truck Coffee

The Good War by Studs Terkel

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Trees by Percival Everett

Episode 157: Randomthinks Aug 10, 2022

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Randomthinks Instagram

A5 Hobonichi Techo Cousin

Field Notes End Papers

Elisa Gabbert on the NYT Book Review Podcast

Episode 156: Sorry Gops, or Articulacy Aug 03, 2022

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N+1 Unleash the Niche

Tombow Unions Hat

Cervezas Polar Hat

Rachel Syme "How I Learned to Wear a Baseball Hat"

Lauren Collins New Yorker Archive

Kansas City Katz Sweatshirt

Portland Beavers Jersey

La Michoacana Premium

New Yorker July 11, 2022

Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle

"The School" by Donald Barthelme

Denis Johnson's Angels

Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers

William Eggleston

W.G. Sebald

Episode 155: The Great Lakes Jul 14, 2022

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In Our Time (BBC) Death of Stars

In Our Time (BBC) Shakespeare's Sonnets

"Step" Vampire Weekend

Many Glacier Guided Boat Tour and Hike

Field Notes "Leap of Faith"

Field Notes "The Great Lakes"

Field Notes "National Crop"

Field Notes Subscriber Box by René Arceo

Nanami Seven Seas Writer

Episode 154: Road Trip Notebooks Jul 09, 2022

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We dig into notebooks on vacation and the associated techniques; read our summer magazines backwards; a touch of vertigo kicks off some movie reflections for Adam; Ted takes on an electric pencil sharpener restoration project.

Monocle Magazine

Moleskine Paris notebook (this looks different from the one I used)

Write purbound notebook

Nanami Seven Seas Writer

Episode 153: Hackles and Haunches Jun 23, 2022

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- Zebra Sarasa 0.3

- Pilot Juice Up 0.3

- Ballsign ID Mysterious Black 0.4

- Midori Brass Ballpoint Bullet Pen

- Pentel Energel 0.5

- Dad Jokes Served Fresh Daily

- Country Songs for Clones (Spotify)

- Country Songs for Clones (Apple Music)

- Folk Music is Insane

- Donald Barthelme

- City Life Barthelme

- McSweeney's 24

- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

- Inprint Houston

- Take Note Patreon

Episode 152: Dagwood Jun 10, 2022

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Adam and Ted discuss sandwich dreaming, how to get excited about and make the most of a writing workshop, why we write down lists, and whether to post a kids’ book on Goodreads.

Also, we launched a Patreon. We welcome your support of this podcast, which is a real passion project for us that we hope has provided you with some laughs and some thoughts.

Inprint Houston

University of Houston Creative Writing

Donald Barthelme

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

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