Take Note

Ted Walker & Adam Webb

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

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100 episodes
Updated July 14

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Nov 15, 2023 · 48 min
Episode 189: Enon Avital of Dapper Notes!
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 producing beautiful books, the pleasure he takes in sharing the process, and the care he takes in creating objects that are inherently unexpected. Dapper Notes
Nov 9, 2023 · 36 min
Episode 188: Sucker
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
Oct 27, 2023 · 24 min
Episode 187: Megatherium
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
Oct 12, 2023 · 37 min
Episode 186: Carcasses
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 Blackwing Matte Erasable Podcast
Oct 4, 2023 · 37 min
Episode 185: Thank You, Mr. Long Arms
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
Sep 13, 2023 · 35 min
Episode 184: Hardcore
Field Notes Tin O Darts Field Notes Harvest Daniel Johnston and Wilco Field Notes Foiled Again Retirement the Margaritaville Way
Aug 30, 2023 · 58 min
Episode 183: Incompetent Crocodile
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
Aug 16, 2023 · 31 min
Episode 182: Lost Golf Balls
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
Jul 10, 2023 · 31 min
Episode 181: Beware, Julia
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
Jun 16, 2023 · 35 min
Episode 180: Gloria
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
Jun 5, 2023 · 30 min
Episode 179: Primo Tolstoy
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
May 19, 2023 · 36 min
Episode 178: Noise
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
Apr 21, 2023 · 30 min
Episode 177: Natural Dream Talent
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
Apr 4, 2023 · 31 min
Episode 176: Stuck Truckhorn
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
Mar 20, 2023 · 39 min
Episode 175: Conduit
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 Badly
Mar 1, 2023 · 31 min
Episode 174: Parading
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
Feb 16, 2023 · 25 min
Episode 173: Bedtimify
The Fabelmans Spoiler Salman Rushdie on The New Yorker Radio Hour CityCast Chicago Dapper Notes Texas Monthly 50th Anniversary Cover
Feb 1, 2023 · 29 min
Episode 172: Backdraft
Adam makes a song recommendation that becomes a cultural tidal wave in Ted’s household, and they swap yarns about going for the double cheeseburger, cabin fireplace safety, radical baseball honesty, and more. Spy novelist Mick Herron Field Notes Hatch Print Michael Marra on Spotify BBC Radio 3 (DJ honorific to Sarah Mohr-Pietsch) Robert Burns
Jan 25, 2023 · 38 min
Episode 171: Bartok
Sometimes we don't like notebooks, and we get into it by way of Murakami and Saunders.
Jan 13, 2023
Episode 170: Brain
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