Ryan Slie joins Adam and Ted for this decasode. We discuss how our stationery usage changes in the summer. Think: little league, the beach, and accessing the subconscious.

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.

We talk about Metal Bands and Classical Music in the 20th Centurty via The Rest is Noise.

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.

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.

Adam has doppelganger problems and Ted weeps. They talk about how to open your notebook more often, whether dream journals are inevitable, and whether weather journals are embarassing.

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.

Adam and Ted fret about ChatGPT and delight in Dapper Notes. Also the Texas Monthly New Restaurant Game!

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.

Sometimes we don't like notebooks, and we get into it by way of Murakami and Saunders.

Adam and Ted are joined by Ryan Slie (aka Ol' One on the Back) to discuss stationery resolutions they will quickly abandon: sticking things in notebooks, completing the 2023 Standard Memorandum daily, writing three pages a day in the pocket journal, stopping the stationery hoarding, and giving notebooks away.

Adam provides a timely addition to the ongoing summer beverage series, we run through some new stationery acquisitions, and Ted revels in a playlist Adam culled from the far reaches of Radio France.

Adam and Ted bring their notebooks to drug stores, recitals, and driveways. We discuss thank-you notes and four-ring binders. On a scale of 1 to 10, you're… going to love it.

Adam and Ted get some IRL face time, Ted watches the old Willow with the family, and Adam negotiates with his reptile guy and puts in place a backup plan. We also talk about some new Field Notes editions.

We tangle with tough questions about social media and how to break unsatisfying cycles. Meanwhile, Ted finds his missing Lamy Safari, Adam enjoys an oversharing pilot who, disturbingly, compares a plane to an old operating system, and Adam tees up a clever Irishman.

It's spooky season so we're discussing the frightening idea of marginalia. Also vikings!

What’s the proper note-jotting etiquette? Notebook vs. phone? We dig into the etiquette a little further. In whaddya gots, parents must choose whether to display their allegiance, Adam spins a yarn of disrespecting Natalie Merchant via submarine sandwich, has a near-miss medical non-situation, and plans ahead with Baron Fig.

Maybe phones are better than notebooks? Also: young people in coffee shops, old people on aeroplanes, and new thrills for plumbers.

Prepared with a nearly full set of hex wrenches, Adam takes note of his 10th anniversary of carrying a Field Notes book in his pocket, Ted enjoys a trip to the indie record store, Adam encounters a concerned citizen, a new thrifting strategy. We also take a look at the new Field Notes edition and talk Wilco.

We contemplate the end of the universe, the sentences of Javier Marias, a quickly-sold-out Field Notes edition, and a corner store fountain pen.

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.

We chat about The Salt Shed Field Notes, Willie Nelson, Ernest Hemingway, the Booker Prize Long List, movies with athletes, and more.

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.

On this episode Adam talks to Keith McCleary who posts a daily pen and ink sample on Instagram, a popular photo and video sharing social media platform which would be a better place if it was more photos of notebook and pens. Don't show us your Hawaiian vacations please. Keith also creates ink sample holders and he is a font of knowledge when it comes to fountain pens.

This episode is all about the New Yorker Summer Fiction issue but first a lot of baseball hat talk. Plus some little league chat. But mostly stories by Shirley Jackson, Bryan Washington, Rachel Kushner, and Ling Ma.