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Episode 144: Where I Feel Most Free (with special guest Aaron James Draplin) Jul 02, 2020

Show notes

Maybe you’ve heard of the incredibly popular notebook brand Field Notes. Maybe you’ve heard us mention them a few times over the last six years. Tune in as we get to chat with Aaron Draplin, graphic designer extraordinaire, Field Notes inventor, and all-around awesome guy.

Warning: this episode has several R-rated words that we decided not to bleep out, due to the color and richness it lends to the conversation. You may not want to listen to this with kids.

Show Notes and Links

Draplin Design Company

Field Notes Brand

Field Notes Heavy Duty

Third Man Field Notes

Leah’s Note To Self

Baronfig Simple Observations

Blackwing Volume 3

Walt Whitman, Song of Himself

Padma Lakshmi’s “Taste the Nation” on Hulu

How to be an Anti-Racist

White Fragility

Jason Isbell Live at the Brooklyn Bowl

Talking to Strangers

Hello from the Magic Tavern

Outstanding in a Field

Pencil Sharpener Sumulator

Aaron on Pencil Revolution (2011): Part 1 Part 2

Our Guest

Aaron James Draplin
Draplin Design Company website
@draplin on Twitter and Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

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Episode 143: Black Lives Matter Jun 08, 2020

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We’re not bringing you an episode about pencils this week, but instead a short message, and some resources for how you can work toward ending systemic racism in your community.

Black lives matter. Period.

If you’re in the United States, please consider a sustained donation to The Bail Project and other organizations working to bring judicial reform to our government.

Being non-racist is not enough: we need to learn how to be anti-racist. Author Ibram X. Kendi has an Anti-racist reading list for us as we begin and progress through our journey.

And when you do pick up these books, be sure you do it from a Black-owned bookstore nearest to your community.LitHub has a great list.

After the media event around the protests against police brutality inevitably ends, white people need to find ways to sustain our support. Tatiana Mac is a software engineer, a writer, and an activist, and has a great Twitter thread with practical ways to avoid burnout and keep up momentum.

Last week, one of our Facebook group members crowd-sourced a list of Black-owned stationery companies or shops that we could support. Here’s what we came up with:

GREERChicago

Loyalty Bookstore in Silver Springs, MD

Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, MA

Page Eleven Paper Goods

The Quiet Life Los Angeles

Semicolon Bookstore

Odin Leather Goods

The Desiderata Pen Company

Methodical Stationery UK

Paper Penguin Co

We’re sure there are lots more. If you have a Black-owned stationery company or shop, feel free to link them in the comments, and we’ll be sure to add to this list.

Episode 142: Happy Birthday, Blob Dylan May 27, 2020

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It’s been a long time since we updated our Top 5, and tonight’s the night! Tune in to find out what’s the same, what’s off the list, and what’s on.

This episode is sponsored by Kamikokuen, an online stationery shop selling vintage Japanese pencils and fun pencil-themed stickers. Save 20% on your order of 2 items or more, plus a fun sticker, with the coupon code ERASABLE20.

Show Notes & Links

Kamikokuen

Erasable Patreon

Jason Isbell Reunions

Sourdough

Broadchurch

Bubblegum

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

My Family and Other Animals

Robert Frost, Complete

Field Notes Deader Prints

Keith McCleary/RandomThinks

RandomThinks at Notegeist

WorkFromHomeDesks.com

Musgrave Tennessee Red

Viking School Pencil

Palomino Golden Bear

Musgrave Test Scoring 100

Camel HB

Vintage Velvet(pencils

Berol Mirado

FaberCastell/Eberhard Faber “American”

PaperMate Mirado Classic

Episode 141: An Operating System for Your Life (with guest Steven Lawson of Monk Manual) May 13, 2020

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Today’s episode is a short one, but don’t equate that with being light on subject material! We have a chat with Steven Lawson, the creator of a notebook organizational system called Monk Manual. He tells us about his holistic approach to helping people organize their lives and themselves — professionally, personally, and philosophically.

Show Notes & Links

Reunions by Jason Isbell

The Wander Society

American Experience: George W. Bush

Stopping the Noise in Your Head

Stopping the Noise in Your Head videos

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Rick Steves on Hulu

The Membership Podcast

World-Ending Fire

Field Notes Deader Prints

Baron Fig Adrift

Baron Fig Fanatics

Our Guest

Steven Lawson
Monk Manual website
@monkmanual on Instagram

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 140: Thumb Ring, Tank Top, Lucky Coin (with special guest Kiki Petrosino) Apr 29, 2020

Show notes

Perhaps this year more than in years past, poetry can help to sustain us spiritually and intellectually during the COVID-19 pandemic. To help us wrap-up National Poetry Month, renowned poet and teacher Kiki Petrosino was kind enough to join us to talk poetry, writing, pencils, and how literature heals the soul.

Kiki’s new book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia comes out May 5! Order it from her publisher, Sarabande Books.

Show Notes & Links

Kiki Petrosino (official site)

Kiki Petrosino at the Academy of American Poets

Kiki Petrosino at the Poetry Foundation

Pre-order White Blood

Pencil of the Month: The Viking Skoleblyanten

Star Trek: Picard

Yacht Rock “channel” on Pandora

John Prine: John Prine, The Missing Years, and The Tree of Forgiveness

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

American Songwriter

The Show and Tell Show

Huge box of Arrowhead erasers

“Thigh Gap” by Kiki Petrosino

Our Guest

Kiki Petrosino
Website
New book

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 139: It's All Well and Good Until You get Arrested for Mail Fraud (with Courtney Cochran) Apr 15, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic is still gripping the globe, and most of us are quarantined to some degree in our homes. To be human is to be connected with other humans, no matter how introverted we are. And letters are the natural way to reach out to other people for the Stationery Inclined. Join the Erasable hosts for a chat with Courtney Cochran, founder of the Snail Mail Social Club — all about letter-writing!

This episode is sponsored by Notegeist, an independent, one-stop stationery shop online. Use code ERASABLEFUN on your order of $30 or more to get a special goodie bag and 15% off Blackwing products. Limited to the first 50 orders or April 30, whichever is reached first.

Show Notes and Links

Notegeist

Snail Mail Social Club

Snail Mail Social Club Patreon

Courtney’s past Erasable Episode

Buy stamps online

Pencil of the Month

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

How to Change Your Mind

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Counterpart

Parker 98r safety razor

La Berlue pencil case

Review of the same

Bulsa Bags

Johnny’s favorite Airmail envelopes

Our Guest

Courtney Cochran
Snail Mail Social Club
Instagram
Facebook
Patreon

Your Hosts

Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem
@TimWasem

Episode 138: A Podcast of One's Own Apr 01, 2020

Show notes

While March is Women’s History Month, we’re kicking off April with a question based on Virginia Woolf’s 1929 A Room of One’s Own — if you have a room of your own (man, woman, or nonbinary), what does it look like? What kind of stationery is in it to assure maximum productivity? How is this room serving you during remote work? And if you don’t have a room of your own at the moment, what does it look like in your dreams?

Show Notes and Links

PDF of A Room of One’s Own

Ladies of Erasable playlist on Spotify

Iron Curtain Press Task Pad

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit

The Queen by Josh Levin

Shinola stationery

Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins recipe

Pier 1 Papasan chair

Baronfig Gather Review Journal

Episode 137: YOLO Pencils (a special live COVID-19 episode) Mar 25, 2020

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Social distancing doesn’t mean we need to be socially isolated. On March 23, 2020, while the world is staying indoors and away from others to stem the surging tide of COVID-19, we recorded a special episode live, as Zoom webinar. We talk about how we’re occupying ourselves, our partners and our children with stationery, in order to stay happy and healthy during a supremely stressful time.

Because of the unusual nature of this episode, we do not have show notes for this episode.

Episode 136: Scrooge McDuckin' Some Pencils Mar 18, 2020

Show notes

We are back from our Baltimore adventure, with stories to tell, tattoos to show off, and to celebrate our six years of podcasting. Tune in as we reminisce about our weekend together and rap about the new spring releases from Write Notepads, Field Notes, and Blackwing.

Show Notes and Links

Erasable Patreon

Baltimore Washington International Pen Show

Pencil of the Month: Mitsubishi 9852EW HB

Oracle Night

Needing to Know For Sure

Hunters

The Future of Another Timeline

Erin Rae

Townes Van Zandt (Be Here To Love Me)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

H. R. Spanks Tattoo

Write Notepads Amethyst

Field Notes Vignette

Blackwing Volume 840

Legendary Lead Co.

Episode 135: Live from the Baltimore Pen Show Mar 09, 2020

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(On February 28, 2020, Johnny, Tim and Andy met up in person — for the first time ever — in Baltimore to hang out, get tattoos, and record an episode in front of a live studio audience at the Baltimore Pen Show. This is that recording.)

Since we were recording in front of an audience at a pen show, we thought it only fitting to make the case for wood case — pencils, that is. Joined by pen show superstars Ana Reinert and Brad Dowdy, and fellow graphiteer Dade Scolardi from The Weekly Pencil and the RSVP Stationery Podcast, we laid out what we hope is a compelling case for those who are into fancy fountain pens to pick up and consider a humble wooden pencil.

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