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That's our subtle signal that.
Hello, and welcome to episode 205 of the erasable Podcast. I'm here with Andy, who I'm pointing to on my screen, Tim. And the other guy in the corner in the black glasses is me, Johnny. If you're a Patreon supporter, you can see us. So if you're not and you want to see our smiling faces and quite how big of a cup I can drink of coffee at 9 o' clock at night, check out our video feed.
Yeah, that's exactly.
That's a wheat coffee you got there, mister.
Your coffee is so amber in color.
No, it's. It's a chamomile tea. That's what it is.
Okay. Okay, cool.
Yeah, some iced chamomile.
Oh, God, that sounds nauseous. So this hopefully will not be our last episode of the year, but it could be. Who knows? You know, things happen, people get sick. So we thought we'd take tonight to do a sort of, you know, 2023 retrospective and go through pencil tools and pencil related tools that we've actually been using a lot. Because speaking for myself, I. What I actually was using was not what I thought I was using. So that's been like weird pencil self deception. So before we get into tools of the trade, because it's been a while and we might go on a little bit, Tim has some news from Musgrave about something really cool they have coming out or out already.
Yeah, totally. So you might have seen that Musgrave has come out with a new pencil and a new notebook and as. Which actually, like saw it came out today because you guys sent it to me because I hadn't seen it like in the wild yet. But it's the songwriter and this is. Yeah. Do you guys. Yeah. What did you think of it when you first saw it?
I thought it was lovely. It's white, has a matching notebook. As always. Musgrave just really knocks it out of the park with like the foil stamp branding on the side of it. So, yeah, love that. It's also. I think I saw. It's a little. It's softer. It's like a 4B maybe. Is that right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a 4B core. Yeah. So, yeah, these notebooks, they're just like the yellow one and the blue one that they've done. They've done recently these. The spiral notebooks and they wanted to come out with. It's kind of like their. Their Nashville area or Tennessee theme. They want to come out with a Songwriter Edition. And it looks really awesome. The COVID has, like, you know, some music notes. It says songwriter across the front. It's sort of a cream, creamy white color on the COVID and then the pages are lined. But also at the top was there. There are some extra lines. It's kind of. Kind of like odd lines at the top. And I got the amazing privilege of getting to, like, interact with the Delgers, like, as they were putting this together, because they knew I had this interest in, like, songwriting. Like, what would a song kind of notebook would a songwriter, like. And so that part at the top is. It's six lines where you can do guitar tablature or you could disregard the bottom line and do musical notation if you want to. And the rest of it's lined up, which is really awesome. So I got to, like, interact with them. They were really nice to, like, reach out, but I think most of this was, like, already. I mean, all the design stuff was in place. I had nothing to do with that. I was interacting.
No, we're going to call this. We're calling this the Tim Wasem.
It's got to be 10B.
Yeah, 10B. That's true.
Yeah. So, yeah, Nicole. I've been. I had chatted with Nicole and they had this awesome idea, and we were talking about the pencil and, you know, round or like, the. Because they had. I think they had thought about, like, the semi hex kind, but they're like, maybe round. So we ended up on. On round. And then they were. I mean, which is just like, my favorite thing about this is how they were deliberating every little detail, which is so fascinating to see that. Yeah.
Where'd they get 119 for the number?
I actually don't know that, so we'll have to have them on to talk about that. I don't know. I don't know the reference there. But, yeah, anyway, so, like. But just to, like, see them, like, think about every little detail, they had this sort of design already set. We talked about, like, well, round versus hex. And then also the core. Like, they were originally trying to figure out what core would be good. And then I got to, like, chat with them about that, and we ended up at this 4B core, which I think is. Did they say really awesome?
Did they say what the. Why they went with the white?
No, that was just where it started. So I'm not sure about, like, why they went with the white. I think. I mean, my. My guess and I. This is totally me Just like, guessing is just. That's kind of like a new colorway for them, you know, like, they had a lot of the reds. They've had the sort of, like, more extreme colors where the. The red, the purple, the blue, and haven't gone into the white very much. Of course, the yellow.
You know, I'm wearing Musgrave blue right now.
Nice. That's awesome.
Yeah. Had Johnny just showed us his Musgrave T shirt. I kept it on wearing right now.
Just took off his top and just swung around his head.
Yeah, yeah, he just swinging around his head right now and he flung it behind him.
That's how I got myself to graduate school. I'll tell you my stage name later.
Yeah, Ken Musgrave right here. Yep.
So, yeah, the font they use is like.
Yeah, yeah, it's great.
And like, I love on the pencil like that, the size of the font even, like, it fills up that whole, you know, like sort of the whole side of the pencil, which I like. It's kind of like a little.
I feel like, yeah, this is a good deal for a dozen American pencils and an American notebook. That's like, those things are big. Yeah, 30 bucks score.
You can buy a whole series of factory second pencils from blackpink for that price.
No, thank you. Yeah.
So also coming to my shop in the new year, my crap Pencils also own 2 in dollars.
Johnny's gonna be selling a whole bunch of bloody notebooks in the new year.
This is the pencil I spelled glue on. This one fell on my coffee cup.
Notebooks covered in his blood. And there's coffee and there's all kinds of stuff in these notebooks. But, yeah, so, yeah, the songwriter set available. Dozen pencils. They look amazing. I can't wait to try them out in the songwriter notebook. So. Gosh, I mean, we could talk about them all the time. They just do such cool things. So that is a. Huge. Thanks for even asking questions about it, but just for doing this. I think it's such a cool idea. And also just the pure fact, and I don't know how much involvement or how much influence I had in this regard, but I am always happy to see a new round pencil come into the world. Yeah. Yeah.
This is the second pencil, third pencil we've had kind of an influence on from Musgrave. Is that right? There's the single barrel 106.
Oh, yeah.
And I think that was.
I can't remember. The Tennessee rounds were something that they did because, well, what if they asked
when they were naming for Input.
Yeah, that's just like really cool because that's. They're just like. They care. They want people to like. They want the people who like this stuff to like this stuff, you know, rather than like, you know, so it's about the use. That was what was so cool about talking to them about this one is that they were. They cared about the. How it was going to be used and like they were thinking about what would a songwriter like, you know, just down to that, like, specific level, which. Anybody would like this even if you weren't a songwriter, because it's a. Means a 4B pencil and a badass notebook. So anybody would like it. So. And the like, even those top lines, like that was an added detail. It was basically where would the margin would be or something. So it's still full, you know, full of lines. So anyways, so, yeah, check that out. It just came out. Yeah, we're recording this today on the. On December 11th. Just was launched on their website. But yeah, go check it out. The songwriter set from. For Musgrave.
We haven't done the Tools of the Trade in a long time. Been a while. So let me bang out one of those. You want to go first, Andy?
Sure. Well, I want to make sure to leave room for, you know, all of Tim's Tools of the Trade, which includes every single album he's listened to since last time we did it, so.
And the 12 pedals on my pedal board. Yeah.
Yes.
Go through each one of those.
I've been really enjoying. So they're just released the third of three Doctor who specials with David Tennant again, which is. It's fun. I don't know how necessary it is. Like, it's definitely sort of nostalgia. And I'm guessing that they, you know, they haven't. There hasn't been a Doctor who for like a year. So they're just like, we gotta boost the ratings. Let's just get David Tennant back and Catherine Tate. So it reminds me a little bit of the Doctor who version of like Star Trek Picard, where it's just like a little bit nostalgic for those days. But the difference is, you know, David tennant was like 10, 15 years ago. Whereas, you know, Next Generation was more than that. So still very good. I haven't watched the third one yet, but I'm looking forward to it. And I guess they introduced the new Doctor who's going to come up. Gatwa Nakuti, who, if anybody here's ever seen Sex Education on Netflix, is the Eric the Black British Nigerian student who is on there. So looking forward to this. So that is coming up. I've been reading there's a really good Chinese sci fi book series called the Three Body Problem and they're gonna be releasing a Netflix series soon. So I just kind of wanted to reread it. It's just about a alien culture that interacts with Earth and it just has very in depth ways that people sort of make contact with them and they talk a lot about sort of like the, the physics of the. How far away Earth and this other planet is. And it's. Yeah, it's really good. I'm just really enjoying it and it takes a very sort of like non
western approach to it, which I appreciate.
And what is the last thing? Yeah, it's really good. It's very. It's pretty heavy and in depth. And what are you even typing or Johnny, what are you typing? Something you can't see when this happens is Johnny making dude comments in our Google Docs. The last thing I've been doing is I've just been spending a lot of time making zines. I talked a little bit about it in the last episode, but I have an issue. If you're a Patreon subscriber, you can watch the video. It's a 44 magazine. It's issue four. Bad robots write bad poetry. And I basically, I made a custom rubber stamp for the COVID This is the rubber stamp which is pretty good. You can make that on the stampmaker.com for pretty like I think this is like 20 bucks.
What?
Cool.
How did you do the art?
Adobe Firefly did the art, which is Adobe's generative AI tool. So I, I basically told it, I was like I want a picture of a robot on a spaceship at a desk writing poetry with a quill pen.
And.
And I said I want it to be a simple line illustration to make into a rubber stamp. And it interpreted that pretty well. And so I added the text around there myself. But very cool. Just upload that file to a stamp and you can do that because it's so big, it's kind of unwieldy. And so I had like the, the little, I don't know what you call it, the thing on the top of the stamp that I was using to stamp down. And it just was, it wasn't like inking all parts of the stamps so maybe went a little overboard. I don't. I couple issues like this where there's just a big kind of like faded out spot in the middle where ghost issue yeah. So I went on Amazon, and for, like, less than $50, bought a. You can kind of hear the clanking here. This is a woodblock printing press. So it's one of those, like, speedball printers. And you can also buy the little, like, ink rollers that you put on, like, wood blocks. And this is just the. Like, the press. So I have too many zine saying there's too many zine things. It's kind of ridiculous right now, but that is that. I also made a website to sell the zines. I. I was bored the other, like, over the weekend, and I signed up for a gumroad account. So if you go to Andy Supply, that is my gumroad shop. I also put the. We also have plumbago in our shop on the erasable. But I also put some plagos in there in case you Want to buy 404 Magazine and Plumbago magazine together. I was surprised that Andy Supply is a domain that was still available, so bought that.
Add it to the collection.
Yeah, Add it to the many domains that I own. I could buy Andy shopping, but it would have been, like, $7,000, because it's a premium domain.
No, thank you.
Yeah. Looked at it all.
Yeah.
That is my tools of the trade. Oh, and I guess we were talking about this in the pre show, but I got for Christmas a Flaviar whiskey advent calendar, which I was kind of showing off. And one of the cool. So every day for what, 25 days, you get a little vial of, like, 2 ounces of different kinds of whiskies. There's ryes and scotches and bourbons and Irish whiskies. And one of the cool things that came with it is a really nice little pocket notebook that each one of the. The whiskies has a. Just like a spread, and you can see kind of some of the flavor profiles that it's talking about. They call it a flavor spiral, which I'm not a hundred percent sure my palette is quite refined enough for that. But you can kind of say what color you think it is. Yeah, not yet. I took some notes.
That's when you're gonna work on it. Yep.
I know. That's. Yeah.
Sweet notes. Yeah.
And then you can rate it. And I've definitely had a few in there where. Yeah, like, there was a. A scotch, A smoky scotch, which is just not my thing. And I basically just took one sip, and I was like, nope. I was like, my notes too peaty and smoky. Didn't even put it on ice. So two. Two out of ten.
But are they like recognizable brands?
Yeah, there's oh like Sagamore Spirits in there, which is a pretty good rye. I. I would say usually. Oh, that's right. They all usually fit Ish within about like $60 a bottle.
Ish.
There's some that's more, some that's less. There's a really good. A couple. And there's also some brands I've never heard of.
Um.
I think Tim, you were telling me about Uncle Nearest at one point in the past that's. I think you were talking about it on.
I've heard of that. Did I?
Maybe it wasn't. You're usually where I like Johnny tells me about Wild Turkey.
That came up.
No, that. I remember that came up when we were. Because we were talking about how that was the like Jack Daniels offshoot or whatever. Like the. The original. Right, Yeah, I think we talked about that with a guest. But yeah, I know what you're talking about.
I think you're right.
Yeah.
Did we talk about it with Kiki? I think we talked about it with Kiki.
Maybe they. Because she and Phil have lived in like whiskey country.
Yeah.
For a while. My brother in law's really into whiskey.
We had an after show. Content about bourbon I think with her. So yeah, that was fun. So yeah. And then I am writing and I'm trying to like use more pocket notebooks just because I have so friggin many. So I'm using my birch field notes and I've been writing today. Been kind of alternating between my Blackwing era's Palomino pen. One of the best kind of recent releases of theirs. Recent Dish. And then also using my little Baron fig. What is it? The Fortune Teller Squire, which I just really like. Oh, you got yours too.
I keep it right at my desk. And friends.
How about you, Tim?
Yeah, so I'll save the music for the end because you know I have like 50 or 60 albums to go through for the year. So you guys can go get like a hot drink or something and wait for that.
But. So Tim Watson, Chris.
Jeff Tweedy from Wilco. I've talked about his books before. He wrote let's Go so We can Get Back Home. Or it's called something like that. It was his memoir. Then he had how to write One Song which is still my favorite. But he came out with his third book which is called A World Within a Song. And it's. I think I talked about the Bob Dylan book. Did you guys see the book Dylan came out with? It's called Philosophy, A Modern song. I think we talked about it, but it's kind of the same idea. But I actually heard an interview that he started writing his book before he knew the Dylan book was even, like, a thing. And then it's, like, kind of the same idea, but it's much less, like, obscure and sort of, like, Strange Language. Because, you know, of course, it's Bob Dylan, but it's basically. It's like a. Another. It's like an addendum to his memoir. But it's every chapter and they're pretty short, which is perfect for, like, reading at night. But he talks about a song that was, like, formative for him. And, like, less obvious ones, where he'll be like, this is this, you know, album that I got from my brother when I was nine years old. That I had, like, no idea what it was or, like, what it was, you know? And I. But it, like, still. I think about it to this day. It's all. But then he gets into more, like, recognizable ones later. But it's a really good book. And then I started rereading Crossing to Safety, which is a novel by Wallace Stegner that was really. It was, like, one of those novels. It was really important to me when I read it for the first time in college. And I feel like it was the first novel that I read as an adult, if that makes sense, or, like, I read it with an adult mindset. Cause I remember there's this one scene in the book, and I. We read it for a class, and it was actually a ethics class that I took. And we read a novel. And I remember we got to this scene, which, of course, did not register to me whatsoever. But it's about these two married couples that, like, move, like, together. Like, it's like their stories moving parallel. But there was a scene where, like, one of the couples was arguing over, like, did you bring the tea for this camping trip? And he's like, yeah, I packed it. She's like, I don't think he packed it. And so they, like, go back and forth and back and forth. And they get to the campsite after, like, this huge fight. And the two husbands are, like, at the fire. And he knows about the fight. And then the husband, like, reaches in and, like, finds two boxes of the tea that he was supposed to bring. And then he throws one of the boxes into the fire that they just built. You know, I remember we had this long conversation about, what is that? He's like.
It's like, wow.
Like, he could have been like, see I told you I brought it. But he was just like eh, whatever and just threw it in the fire, burning. So it was like the first you
were going to say was weed. That was a euphemism. And I realized they weren't talking about tea.
No, he literally spilled tea into the fire. It was. Yeah. So anyways, I remember reading that and like having this like whole like few days of thinking about it. It was like the first book I read with like an adult mindset, like I was saying. So I'm rereading that right now for the first time since then and it's really fantastic. A really wonderful book. He's an amazing writer. And then I haven't been like watching too much but we watched the new Mission Impossible. Dead Reckoning Part one.
What, what number is that in the series of films?
Six maybe. I thought, I mean like there's gonna be part one and two. So I think this is their like whatever, you know, the last Harry Potter. They're doing a part one and two.
So I feel like it's like Mission definitely Hollows.
Yeah. Mission definitely Hollows. Yeah. So it's very good. It's very AI. It's like there's this thing called the Entity that's. It's like a self aware AI that's sort of slipping in and out of everything. And it was good. And one of the things that was really interesting because we like, we. Jane and I love spy movies, like espionage movies of any kind. And Dead Reckoning was like legit funny at multiple points which was like new for Mission Impossible. There were moments where it was like kind of when a movie gets like self awareness.
Yeah.
You know, where it's like making fun of itself and they're like trying to solve their own. They're in the middle.
They have their own lore now so.
Yeah, exactly. So like in the middle of a car chase.
They were so serious.
Oh yeah, for sure. And I have. So I was Mission Impossible 1. I feel like I watched it 50 times when I was a kid. I loved that first movie. But this was. Yeah, there's like the things where like oh, this is the part where they do XYZ and then they joke about doing XYZ and why like XYZ is not working, you know. So. So it was good. It was. There were parts that were a little cheesy but it was like totally worth it. It was really good. I think the next one comes out in a couple years or something like that. And then we had been watching Bake off, the British baking show which was.
Who are you rooting for, Tim?
Well, I have already seen the last episode, so.
Oh, crap. I am not. I'm not there yet.
You shouldn't say. Yeah, I. I'm a big. Where are you?
I'm a big Nicky fan. And gosh, I think I just finished. Oh, I'm pretty early. I just finished, so I still have a long way to go.
Okay. Yeah, you got like, four or five. Yeah, yeah.
I'm a big Nikki fan. The Scottish lady.
Yeah. I mean, if I was, like, right around where you are and really, like, a lot of the show. I really like Tasha a lot. Like, she was my favorite. Yeah. Like, she's incredible. So she was my favorite on the show. But, yeah, so we finished that. We did start watching the Christmas one, which was fine, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We started watching Lego Masters. Did you guys ever watch Lego Masters?
No. I've heard of it. I've never seen an episode.
I mean, it's Bake off, but it's Legos. So, I mean, it's amazing. Like, they make this awesome. But the new season of Go Back to the Beginning. Watch the first one, Sun Hulu. It's awesome. The newest season, though, it's, like, really weird because they're, like, not competitive in a nice way. And I'm like, oh, no, don't go that way. Like, don't go that direction. Like, it seems that the first episodes where it's like, oh, they're just legit competitive and what are they doing? We got to beat them or whatever. But it's still fun. But Bake Off's been great. And then as far as music, I'm not going to talk about a million things, but a couple things that I've. Like, there's two things. One Christmas, one not Christmas. The Christmas album is. I. I'm a huge fan of Lucinda Williams. I think she's a genius. She's amazing. And she has this series called, like, Lou's Jukebox or something like that, and it's kind of like her covering other people's songs. And you can't stream them. Like, you have to. I mean, they're, like, on YouTube and stuff, but you can't get them on streaming. So I. I bought one of them because I didn't know it existed, but it was called, and this is the worst title. Sorry, Lucinda, if you're listening, I adore you. You're amazing. And you're not listening, but I'm still just saying this so everybody can hear it. Have yourself a rockin Little Christmas is what she called it. I'm so sorry to say that out loud. I haven't said it out loud yet to anyone, but it's great. It's like all these Christmas standards and some she wrote. Like, even the standards kind of have like a sort of bluesy rock twist to em. It's really good. Yeah. And then this is the big one though, is. You ever listen to Cat Power? I don't think we've ever talked about Cat Power.
I think so, yeah.
She's. Yeah, she's a indie rock artist. She's been around since like the 90s and she's really awesome. And I. And if you see her on a podcast, like look up podcast episodes where she gets interviewed. She was just on WTF recently. It's super interesting. But she is a huge Bob Dylan fan and so she just released a few weeks ago. She played a show at the Royal Albert hall in London and covered Bob Dylan's Royal Albert hall concert, like start to finish with her band. Like the famous, like, first live, you know, like, live show where he was going electric or whatever. Or the first big live album where he went electric. And it's very good. It's very good. So highly recommend it. So. Yeah. And then as far as what I've been using, I actually got out. You guys remember when I had my son take all of my black wing two 11s and put orange erasers and then we threw away the brown ones? Yeah. So I've been using one of those recently, which has been fun. Cause it's like. Yeah, I'm just gonna use it. Just been burning through that thing. Still using my metal Sharpie pen at work. Like, that's like all I use all day. But fountain pen wise, I'm just still in love with my new Levenger that I talked about. The. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the thing is.
Are you still inking it with. I can't remember what your ink was.
I've got writer's blood in it now.
That's right.
Yeah. Which might have been what I had in it before.
For winter. You could put some kind of cool blue and echo those little blue specks that are in that side.
Yeah, I've already.
Resin or whatever it is.
Oh yeah, I've thought about it for sure. I love that. But the Kyoto, I love that thing. Yeah, that's me.
Nice. So how about you, Johnny?
Thanks for listening.
The tim was.
We haven't done this. We haven't done this in a while. So I love this part. Yeah, yeah.
No, this is great.
It's fun. So. Okay. Another book is the recent. I guess it's a memoir by a philosophy professor called how to Not Kill Yourself about suicide. It's really good. He. I don't remember how many suicide attempts he's had. And he's like an early Gen Xer. Maybe he's around 60.
Yeah.
But, yeah, it's like, pretty unflinching and really well written. I appreciate. And he's a philosophy professor, so there's like, chock full of, like, references to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. He's like, ooh, I feel like I'm 20 again, but I'm not through it yet. But it's like, huge. But not like, you know, unnecessarily laden with footnotes huge. So it's not. I mean, it's not written like an academic book. He drops F bombs, which I always appreciate. And speaking of F bombs, I. We recently watched, well, I watched Bodies on Netflix, which is a mind F bomb. Did you guys catch that yet?
Mm. Mm. I've heard of it. I don't think I know much about it.
It's a.
It's a mini series where they find this body and in this London alley in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053. And it's like, same person in the same circumstances. Like, bonus points if you recognize the guy from a very good episode of Endeavor. But, like, it was really good. Like, it didn't have a stupid ending and a really interesting resolution.
Nice.
But I don't want to spoil it. Cause, yeah, it was really good. If you want to watch something cool on Netflix at night, that's, you know, quick one hour episodes, definitely check that out. And I finally watched Underground Railroad, which, like, doesn't even need anything said about it because it was as well done as the book. So perfect.
I didn't know they made that into a series.
Right. I didn't know either. Yeah, it sort of got delayed with COVID and then it came out like two years ago, I think.
Like Wilson Whitehead's book.
Yeah. And after the first episode, they played Outcaster in the credits, which was perfect because it was in Georgia. That tickled me. I'm like, oh, my God, I can't watch enough of this show. But yeah, that was really good. And also in Sunny themes. I don't know why. I've been listening to a lot of Nine Inch Nails lately. But, you know, the Downward Spiral was a concept album and it came out when I was like, 14 and, like, everybody else, I'm like, oh, you know, big album for me. But I hadn't listened to it all the way through and long time. So I gave it a nice, long listen.
Speaking of concept albums, have anybody listened to Andre 3000's concept album that just came out?
I was listening to part of it, but you have to, like, listen to
is not what I was expecting. It was, like, very meditative, just sort of atonal. Kind of floats of flutes and things.
He saw something. He was like, yeah, I heard something. It was like his track whatever, the single or whatever was like the longest ever Billboard charting song. Yeah, yeah. Because, like, when there are these long flute songs or whatever that. But it was. I think it was the longest or the second longest or something like that, like, song to ever chart on the Billboard charts that he has.
The track listings have things like. Like track number one is. I swear I really wanted to make a rap album, but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time. That's the track name. I think that my. I think my favorite is track three, which is that night in Hawaii when I turned into a panther and started making these low register purring tones that I couldn't control. She was wild.
Been there.
Yeah, yeah. Who's the one?
Haven't we all? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Other than that, I've just been playing a lot of bass because I joined a new band, and it's always fun to play a lot more than usually do.
Are you gonna record us a new theme?
I was gonna ask Tim if it was a surprise to you if we could, like, each make parts for one, but I guess it won't be a surprise.
It's fine.
But forget what you just.
Probably so fun. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe it's something we can work on over the holiday.
What's your band name?
You can rap over it?
Yes. Maybe I can just make low register purring tones.
There you go.
So the band is called Inglewood because. So all three of the other members are firemen, and one of them has a cat that was a rescue from a suicide that they went to, and they named it after the street the guy lived on. So this person lives on Inglewood, and his joke is that if he dies and someone takes his cat, they'll name it Inglewood. So it's cutting glue. Yeah. Yeah. We're about ready to start, like, looking to play out for fun and free beer soon. So that'll be cool.
Yeah, that sounds great.
Fun to have something to work toward and, you know, I need an excuse to go buy that. My middle life crisis, overpriced fender base.
Did you get it yet?
No, I can't narrow it down. I need to go play on it. Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm waiting till after the holiday so I don't hate myself.
Nice.
So you want to jump into our year in review, look back a little further than we have been?
Yeah, let's do that.
So I thought we could split it up into sections like pencils, pen, paper products, pencil accessories, and then non pencils, including those ink things. So.
Yeah, we never use those.
Yeah, I don't. Oh, my God. My foot's not next to six binders. So we'll start out with pencils. You want to go first, Andy? Yeah.
Well, I think I feel like I'm pretty consistent on this. Love me a blackwing. Excuse me? Golden bear. I always have a golden bear. Just kind of. I don't even know where it is right now. Golden bear sitting around me. Except apparently now. So still really use that a lot. The. I've actually. This blackwing era, the palomino, the black wing. The palomino, blackwing, Palomino era has been still one that I
just.
I grab a lot. It's actually been sitting on at my local mito. There's this little tiny crab and it just sits on the desk and you can just put your pencil in its claws and it just holds it as a little like desk holder. It's very cute.
Appropriately like Maryland.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Break it open and put some old bay on it. I couldn't do that.
Then you put the obey on the. On it before you break it up.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay.
These.
Andy. Gosh, don't you know how to steam crabs alive?
Well, the Dungeness crabs are the ones out here. And apparently Dungeness crab season has not been great, so it's been
toxic.
Anyhow, been using that also earlier this year.
Gosh.
What was it last year? Or was it earlier this year when the pencil king came out?
Whenever it was.
I was using it pretty early. Pretty early this year. Big fan of that one too for
like beginning of this year, end of last, but. Yeah, those are great.
Yeah.
One right here.
Another one that I've been picking up. That's not usually my thing is I got this. It's probably in February, March, April, somewhere around there at a little art supply store. It's a Castell 9000 Jumbo. It's one of these kind of like big boys. Love that.
I just.
I love the Way they look, love
the way they fit, feel.
It is. Is. Yeah, it's really soft. This was an 8B. I think I have a 6B one too. So it's definitely like the core is thicker cuz otherwise it's just gonna like crumble.
So.
Yeah, yeah, it's just like a. It's a Sharpie. It's a Sharpie of pencils. So. Yeah, yeah. So I think kind of throughout the year those are the ones I've been using the most. I'm trying to think if I've have any others just kind of like sitting on my shelf here. Besides, you know, just the ones that I've tried out. But these are the ones I've kind of kept going back to. How about you, Tim? What are your pencils of the year?
I think the pencil of the year is that black wing eras. I try to think about that. I always try to think about that whenever I think about the. The labs which shall not be named.
We said our piece last time and man poop is on our side.
Oh, I have to go read that.
Yeah, it was. Yeah, I don't know that was. But that eras was the Van Dyke style. Eras are just so wonderful.
Those are good.
Love it. And they're still in stock. I think you guys were talking about that. Like I guess they made a ton of them.
Yeah, I think the 22 ones were in stock last time I looked. That was before the holiday R. I don't know. But then Blackwing Volume 2 is coming up. So I'm wondering is it going to be poop related or like is it going to be the yellow pencil? Like did.
Did you see the email saying that they're delayed but they are going to try to get it here by Christmas, which they got to, I don't know. So crank that out.
Yeah, I got my garden pencils a month behind everyone else because they never sent them.
Oh.
And when I messaged them, I heard back from them a week later to say, oh yeah, when we switched some system that's happened a bunch of. I'm like, so why didn't you check? Like how many other people did this happen to? So a week after that they mailed them and a week after that I got them. Jesus. So it kind of killed the buzz. Cause those were cool. Like him. But yeah, maybe they're busy recycling trash pencils.
Yeah.
Or they're going through them like, oh, we'll sell these next year for 50 bucks. I'm sorry, that's not very charitable. Everyone I talk to about this is like they what?
But I mean that. That errors is definitely my number one for the year. I've used that more than anything else. For sure. Yeah.
Like, without a good one.
So it's like that one and then Tennessee. I've got like Tennessee rounds scattered all over my house. So those are also like all over the place. So it's pretty. Yeah. Pretty common that I would be having. I would have one of them stuffed into my hat. Yeah, I gotta chase them, you know, I'm just like running down the hallway.
Like, it goes. You're like, oh, well, I'll sharpen another one. I'll find that one later.
Yeah, go where you need to go, little buddy.
Yeah, like a T. Tumbleweed. Except a pencil. Just like.
Yeah.
Tumble tumb.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's my pencil of the year for sure. Nice. How about you, Johnny?
Got your third one?
Oh, third one. Do I have a third one on there? I know we were doing three. I. I think I put some on there. Like. Yeah. And that's. The other one is the. Which is. I almost didn't talk about it just because I talk about it all the time. But the Mitsubishi 9852, the EW, the Natural one, that's another one that's in every pencil container that I have that might make it out of the house with me. And that's kind of. It's become my go to pencil when I don't want to think about it. You know, I've talked about that before. It's like, I just, I hate being in that situation. Like, what should I use? Like, especially on, like, earning money or something. I'm just like, I just need to pick something that's the one that I will grab. Because it's like, I don't want to get to the point where I'm like, oh, this is kind of not perfect. Or that one's pretty much always perfect. Today Lila platonic ideal pencil. Yeah, it's like that and the Palmeto hb. Those are my platonic ideals. And today Lila was using a Palomino HP for doing. She was doing her little first grader homework. I was like, that's my favorite pencil that's ever been made. She's like, really? Why?
Aww.
Like, you have a favorite pencil again. I was like, yeah, of course I do. No. Has she met you? Yeah, she definitely, like, wrote with a little more like, swagger after I said that on her little like, you know, what's nine plus eight kind of, you know, homework she was doing.
Yeah.
Like she was writing with a Mercedes all of a sudden. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Elizabeth. Three.
Okay. I didn't stick to three. Sorry. But I'll be quick. So I don't know how you guys
just overcompensating for all the fountain pen stuff.
So my, my main pencil cup is on my. The desk that I do bookbinding on. So I just dumped it out and was like, what's the shortest and what's like blunt all the time? So I discovered that I used the crap out of the last two Blackwing eras. They're always dull whenever I pick one up. So, I mean, they're good for like, you know, marking on stuff where I want a little darker line.
What are the last two? It's the, the Van Dyke one. And then what's the one before that?
Is it the one with the little
arrow cut out with the. Yeah, the hand or like the strap?
Yeah, that's a good one.
It's kind of a toss up which one of those I like better. Looks wise. Also, I, I always have an everhard favor velvet because they're harder. And these really old Ticonderogas that a friend of a friend sent that are like just after the war so that, like, oh, they're so pretty. I have to send you guys them. And there's always a couple vintage American Everhart favorite American naturals in there because, you know, they're natural but they're not that smooth. So they're really good when you have like glue on your hands. And like some of mine are covered in glue. And of course, what's probably my favorite currently made pencil.
You got one stuck to the side of your head right now?
Yeah.
It's covered in glue.
Yeah.
Oh, crap. Oh. So I have to wear these like, these breads to keep my hair from blowing around because it's not quite long enough yet. So I thought of like glue on a pencil blind, but I'd probably like get it stuck in my scalp or something. Yeah.
So Johnny, you know, you, you see what's not on this list for Tim. For Johnny. Right, Right. Tim.
What was it? Yeah, as soon as you said it's always sharp, I'm like, well, it's definitely not going to be a whoopex then, because that's impossible.
Ice cold. So they have new ones that are the actual, like Staedtler Norris. They're just made of Opex.
Oh, really?
They're a little better.
I mean, what. Go ahead.
No, they. The cores feel more like a regular pencil, but the pencil generally doesn't feel like a regular pencil, but I don't know, I just haven't. Not dark enough for marking a book board and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
And also, like, I don't know, my tastes have changed. I'm like, this is not cedar. Get away from me.
This is made as of asbestos. What?
Yeah, there's some new Ticonderogas that are pastel. Have you guys seen those? Oh, yeah, they're. Oh, I don't have any. I don't have it. Rosie's, like, obsessed with them, so I have to keep buying packs of them. And they're like, perfect, except that they're not cedar. Hmm. Or whatever. There's something heavier and denser, which doesn't make any sense.
Yeah.
But. Yeah, so this is not the natural transition. But I thought next we could talk about paper products instead of pencil accessories because we probably use those more than pencil accessories.
Yeah.
So can we go first? Nadka. Mr. Andy.
Yeah.
The one that I've been using for
most of the year.
Hold on. Really enjoying. I got one of the Lichterm notebooks that has the heavier paper and I can't. It's the 120GSM or GM2 or whatever they call it. And it's really nice. I've been using a lot more lined paper lately.
Oh, they make that one in lined?
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, I didn't know.
That looks pretty good.
And it's real thick. It's. It's a lot heavier. So it definitely, like, you feel it when it's in your book bag. I am putting Johnny on mute because I can still hear him.
Yeah. Turn your screen off. You still gotta mute. Yeah.
So big fan of this notebook. Yeah. So that's one of the biggest paper products I'm using. Another one is I've been revisiting just an old standby. I found it in a drawer and it's that Ampad gold fiber notebook, which I just really love. I haven't been using this for. Gosh, it's been years since I've used one, but I pulled one out and I just kind of just forgot how much I really like, really like that. Very creamy. It's very fibrous paper. So it's really good with pencil.
Yeah.
And then other than that, trying to think if there's any other paper products that I'm just like, really specifically using. And I think just the plain old paper that's in my. Just in the white birch notebook. Earlier this year, I wasn't using many pocket notebooks at all. And I Would say that probably.
Yeah.
This is the Sloichterm is the one that I've been using the most, so Been putting a lot of it's good stickers on it too.
Yeah, it's a good mix. Yeah.
How about you, Tim?
Well, I got to show you now that we're on screen, so the paperage notebooks, which I've talked about, is definitely my most used as well. I use them for work and I actually just got through. I had two for the year and I got through them. This is mine with all the stickers
on it like you're writing a design sticker.
I got Pencil Revolution Press. Revolution Press got Great for Dead. I got this weird little sticker that a student gave me. Got the Millennium Falcon and. Oh, cool. Yeah, those. Nice. My favorite local record store bumper sticker, Backdoor Records on the back. But I really. I like these notebooks. I actually just ordered another two pack. These are my kind of like go to the. Has become. Have become my go to work notebooks. They're so cheap too. And it's just. They take everything that I use while I'm like. While I'm working. Like anything I want to use while I'm working. So I love that. Really love those notebooks. I really just want them to come out with. They have pocket notebooks too, but I haven't tried those yet because. Mainly because I'm waiting for them to come out with. All they have is lined and pocket notebooks, like hard. I'm just. I say, nervous to get them like, as if they're not a two pack for eight bucks or whatever. Like I should just try it out because I use the Leuchturm Pocket hardback that has lines and it's a good line width. Like I've been using that a lot. But this. I say like the other like most used that I have. I've been using the field notes Great Lakes a ton since I got those recently. But the Maruman B5 spiral notebook. Oh yeah. I've used a couple of these and those have become my. They have like those of you listening. They're the sort of craft cover. Yeah. And these are lined and these are my. Have become my standard songwriting notebook. So this is. That's all I use them for my chord progressions and lyrics going in there. But for songwriting. That is my songwriting notebook and I really love them.
We should do like a Patreon extra at one point where it's just like what's in our notebook kind of a thing.
Yeah, yeah. I mean yeah, it's always fascinates me, like to see anybody doing that, you know, like anybody showing. Not even if it's not any certain topic, but. And not in like a sort of peeping, you know, like, I want to see what you're writing, but just like I feel like that's like a. Such a clear way to see into somebody's head that it's always fascinating. We got my father in law for Christmas. We got him this new. There's a new Lyrics of Johnny Cash book that came out. Yeah, it's like a big hardback.
Oh, yeah.
Which I got. And I got the. There's a Willie Nelson one that I got for Christmas. We did an early Christmas with my family. And it's like a coffee table size Willie Nelson lyrics. And it has handwritten lyrics in there too. But the Johnny Cash one's like extra cool. Like it has way more handwritten stuff. Like scans of handwritten pages from notebooks. And it's like that kind of stuff is awesome. I love seeing the stuff they crossed out, you know, like taking out this line, these three words. I'm going to replace them with this one word and it's like, love it. Yeah, that was really cool.
Did you guys get the Maggie Smith field notes?
The Maggie Smith field notes.
I'm sorry, Maggie Rogers.
Not that one.
Oh, I was like, wait, Maggie Smith field notes.
Poet Maggie Smith notebooks. Neither. Yeah, Maggie Rogers.
No, no, I haven't. I didn't.
Yeah, flyleaf. They have some of her handwriting on like a clear piece of vellum.
Oh, that's cool.
Is coordinating to the COVID and then the same for Blueman. And apparently they're selling out and they don't make the signature books anymore. So these are their only, like really good paper books currently in stock.
Oh, interesting. Hmm. Yeah, check those out. Yeah, I love those.
Yeah, I prefer the Judi Dench field notes myself to.
They're very saucy.
The Maggie. Yeah.
Yeah.
The Maggie Smith ones would be like gray and stern and they were always cold when you touch them. But they get it done.
Judi Dench ones just have an M on the front of them.
Yeah.
James.
James.
How about you, Johnny?
That's. Yeah, that's all me.
I went to grab this. So the. Those 120gsm like terms were originally the bullet journal 2.0. So.
Right.
The newest color. I don't know if it's gonna show up. Right. It's like a spruce green.
Hmm. Oh, yeah, perfect.
Yeah, I have it lined up for the year, so I Forgot what they're doing for 2024. But they do, like, a color every year. So this is the 2023 one. And then it had one called Edition X. It was for their 10th anniversary. That has gold.
Ooh.
And I won the giveaway, so I didn't even pay for it.
Dang.
And it comes. This one comes in a box and the bookmarks are gold, the ribbons are gold. It has a little. They call it a poster, but it's, you know, this size of something from Writer Carroll.
It's pretty cool.
I think I'm going to switch my next notebook, so I'm going to switch back to a Baron fig. So I can use your cover that you made me, Johnny.
I can make you one for the other ones if you want. I'm out of gray, but I have a slow color. I have a really, like, unhealthy stockpile of that stuff. It's really expensive. I need to use it. So I guess I've been using those a lot. And my own books, which are, like, really small and, like, all these colors, but I can't link to those because they're one off. Usually, like, if I make a book and I bleed on it or screw something up, that's mine, like, not gonna put that in the shop. If you ever buy a book for me with blood in it, like, I don't know. I guess I owe you a prize. The.
Sorry.
I just cloned my own Johnny with that.
The blood was free. Yeah.
Yeah.
I bled on a custom book this weekend. Like, but it's one page, and it was like I was putting the COVID on and it wasn't something someone paid for. So I'm like, well, remaking this book. This is really expensive.
I thought you were. You were saying that it was a one page notebook. I was like, that's a stretch. It was just one page. I was like.
Which is nice.
Yeah. Yeah. I started. I'm working on something that we took. This is only related because we put it in a zine when we did those journal prompts. And I was talking about, like, today I got to. And today I get to. So I'm working on making notebooks with that. But, like, the ones that are for a year are, like this thick. So I don't know if I can get those out by New Year's, but if you guys want one, I have some prototypes. Yeah. So I feel like that's a trick question for me because, like, I'm literally surrounded by paper right now in really weird way. Like, I have to Watch the humidity at home. Like, my air conditioning was on yesterday. Cause it was muggy.
Like, I bought a humidity meter for. For my basement for the first. I've never owned one of those, but I bought one for guitars because it's getting cold here. Yeah, yeah, I got it. And it's, like, amazing. Like, I was like, oh, I'm so glad I had this. Because sometimes I'll get a guitar out and it'll be out of tune. I'll be like, damn, I'll tune it. And then 10 minutes later, it's out of tune. I'm like, oh, this guitar's. Something's wrong with this guitar. But if the humidity is at 50%, three days could go by and I pick the guitar up and it's in tune. So I was like, oh, okay. It's just.
I've never thought about that before.
Yeah. Especially anything with a hollow body because the insides aren't finished, so they, like, really take the moisture.
Yeah.
I have an acoustic bass. Like, if I play it and it's like a chilly day, it warms up from my body and then goes late, like, in a couple minutes. Cause I'm a hot box. But it's also fun, too. Damn. Like, I'm affecting the woods.
I've always said you guys are hot boxes, so.
Thank you, Eddie.
Tell people all the time. These are my hotbox co hosts. The one that I've been really loving is something I just kind of picked up at Mido on a whim. And I always like when I carry a pocket notebook. And even with my regular notebook too, I like to have a little, like, straight edge with me. Just to draw some, like, lines to make lists or whatever.
And.
And I've traditionally, really. I've been using a lot of, like, I have this, like, little carbon fiber straight edge. Oh, neat ruler. That's really great. It is really great. But I found one that I think I might like even better. And that is a little. It's aluminum. But what's cool is it has a little clip on it.
Oh.
And so if you're looking at this right now, you can just clip. Clip it into your notebook and then just like, close it up and it just kind of lives in there. So where did you get this? I got it at Mido. It is made by. Did you guys ever hear of High Tide? It's like a Japanese ish. I think it's High Tide branded, which they often will private label their stuff. So it could be some other brand. But this is. I'll pick some up for you guys and send it to you. It's really nice.
That's like an ultimate. When I saw it, like the first thing I thought of my head was like, holy crap. Bookmark. And underlining, like that would be so amazing. Perfect. Yeah, yeah.
And they come in colors.
Awesome.
Oh yeah, yeah. I think I just got just a silverish titanium one that they had. But yeah, there's some good colors in there.
So I would do that too. I would look at all the colors and be like, ah, silver.
Yeah, that's a good one. Um, the other one, which I think is. It might be a little bit of a stretch, but I'm. I've been using it a lot as just like an analog tool. So I guess it's not super. Like I've used it for some like stationary stuff, but. So my friend of the show, Will Fangy, just got a 3D printer earlier this year and he made me. He 3D printed a little X acto knife holder. So you put in your exacto blade and it just like slides out. And this is just all 3D printed. It's extremely thin and it just goes like.
That is very hand. Yeah.
And so it's been. Just didn't realize how handy this is. Cause I have like, you know, utility knives with this, the big handle. I guess this is an exacto. This is like the utility knife things.
Yeah, it's like a box cutter blade or something.
Yeah, it even. I mean it's very safe. It has like this little tab in here. That's all. It's all 3D printed, has this little tab that kind of keeps it in place. So you gotta push that in to like extend it. It's just come in handy so much. And it just sits on my desk, so. Which is kind of why it made me, you know, made me think of this being a like a pencil or desk accessory or something. So.
Totally.
Yeah. Big fan of that.
Well done, Will.
Yeah, good job. Somewhere I think we found the pattern on thingiverse, which is like a big like repository of like 3D printing patterns. So I'll see if I can find that and link to it. The only other thing which I like bought in a whim when I moved into this apartment, which is just made me happy, is my tape dispenser, which is a dinosaur, as you can see. For those of you can't see, it's a dinosaur that's like laying on his back holding like playing with the like
little roller cat playing with like a
ball yarn, like some yarn or something.
Yeah, it's like a little kitty.
Yeah. Been using that and trying to think of what other accessories I've been using. Those are kind of the main ones I do have. Yeah. Just my zine making accessories. My big paper guillotine and my saddle stitch stapler and yeah I guess those aren't exactly pencil accessories but that's kind of mainly my favorite things. Trying to think the sharpener I've been using most is just my. I think my Blackwing one stage sharpener with the little canister on it. Just perfect sharpener for me. Just not fussy, not too expensive, not too cheap. Yeah. Big fan of that one. Yeah. Tim, how about you? What is your pencil accessory?
I'll start out with just briefly piggybacking the Blackwing eraser or black wing sharpener. I've got yeah. One in my. One on my desk, one on my bag at all times and I found.
I should get another one.
Yeah. I've got one and I found recently and I don't have it near nearby because it's in my bag upstairs. But I was going through just cleaning out some stuff from the garage and I had a bin full of stuff from college and I found a little like zippered pouch from college that I bought to put my digital camera in to take on this trip like for school. You know which the digital camera. No clue where that damn thing is but like. But I have the case for some reason because I don't throw things away. But that's become my sharpener case like so I. It's like this big and so I keep a sharpener inside. I put that sharpener inside and on the front it has a little zipper pouch and I put like three or four pencil caps and an eraser in the front part. So yeah that's. It is the ultimate kind of on the go sharpener. Yeah for sure.
Nice.
Yeah. Other non pencil related things is I have been buying. I might as well buy them in bulk. But I've been trying to read more and I've been reading a lot of poetry and I bought. I think I bought two pack. Two or three packs in the last several weeks of the Post it page markers like the little page marker tabs because I had the. The ones that were like plastic based. I think Post it makes as well and also the highlighter, you know like Sharpie highlighter. A company has one but the post it ones cause I like to have the option to write on them and those have just been. Those things are. They're so fun and so great. So I love it. Brings me great joy to look at a, you know, a book of Mary Oliver poems that has a bunch of those little things sticking out and some of them have stuff written on them. Yeah. But yeah, been using those a ton. And I also have gotten back because I. I don't know why but like I hadn't carried it around for a while. I think it was when. When I got the Kyoto Levenger. Kyoto. I started using this again. But. And this is one of those that's like, check this out. You can't buy it anymore. But the, the Nocco. Oh yeah. I think it's called the Hightower.
That's it.
Yeah, the high tower. So it. And so usually I'll put right now it's got a Sharpie pen. My knockoff pilot. Nice. Yeah, it's got my knockoff pilot Vanishing Point. Oh, I like those two. Pilot Vanishing Point and then the Kyoto and I. And then I'll usually slide a pencil in on the middle slot right there so it can kind of poke up through the top so I can put it in my bag. And I've usually lately I've been keeping one of those field notes, Great Lakes editions right here. I've almost finished my second one that I've had just for blue and look at that stuff. So I've got that. Yeah. So this thing has been back in my life in a big way. And then the only other non pencil related, like sort of analog things. Just talking about the last one is playing cards. I've sort. I've become that guy who's like got a fanny pack with his hightower and a deck of playing cards and a notebook. Yeah.
It's just like your dad real hard.
Oh man. It's like. Yeah. Who am I trying to impress? You know? That's what I'm saying.
I'm just like.
That's just. This is what I do now and it's fine. Yeah. I'm not embarrassed at all. I can put. I've got. I've even been. I'm getting on the verge of appealing to the people we make fun of all the time. But I've been carrying around my knife. I live in Tennessee, so it's fine. But this is the one that our buddy Toffer. Lovely open Ellis little open knife that Topher sent. I've been carrying this around. Yeah. Daily for, I don't know, months now.
But mine's around here somewhere.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Tim, where are you putting your. Where are you putting your Glock?
My Glock? I usually Keep it between my butt cheeks.
Okay, that's a good idea.
That's not good with safer there.
Yeah, that's true.
Not with a plastic gun. Don't do that with a Glock.
This is. Yeah, there's a little context for why that came up. I'm. So I was selling a guitar on Facebook Marketplace recently, and because this is east Tennessee, somebody sent me an offer and just said, hey, is this still available? And then sent me a picture of their pistol. And I was like, cool, thanks. What's the context? And I was like, oh, they're trying to trade me a gun for my guitar.
Many guns or guitars.
Not interested.
Yeah, in Baltimore, I would think they would.
There's a threat, like, yeah, it's like,
this is my Glock.
Is it available?
Oh, somebody else direct messaged you on Facebook before I did. Think again.
Yeah, you're gonna back out of that deal, fella.
Think again. So that's me. That's me.
Nice.
How about you, Johnny?
So for pencil accessories, I just use whatever, like, electric pencil sharpener is closest because, like, I'm gotten so lazy in middle age. And there. There's an electric pencil sharpener everywhere in my not very big apartment.
But you close your eyes, reach back, or reach to the side or reach. Chances are you will make it into one of those sharpeners. Yeah.
I've done a dad move. Like the kids used to one in the dining room a lot, and I'm going to them. Like, no one emptied the bezel sharpener. The kids likes what I did. I also.
I just watched Family Stone, which is my favorite Christmas movie. I just love that movie so much.
Yeah.
It reminded me of that scene where she's like, God damn it. So somebody drank the coffee and didn't make another pot. If you finish the coffee, make another pot. I can imagine you doing that with a pencil sharpener. Like, somebody's gotta empty it.
Yeah.
Henry, did you finish the coffee?
Yeah. So Owen's school is very early. So I wake up very early to get Owen up, and I've got him on coffee. Makes me on purpose. I'm like, that's cool. He's this tall now. And then he just got some new docs, and now he's like to hear. But So I never. I've never been a big eraser user, but I found lately that all the erasers on my desk are like, crumbled apart because they've been using the crap out of them. So I don't.
You gotta erase those blood. That blood that doesn't Work from your notebooks. Okay.
Blood Eraser was your band name. Blood Eraser.
Our next After Dark episode. I have to tell you about the time I smoked my blood and we were auditioning a singer when I was like 18. It's funny, it's funny. Now I've been using a lot of like gummy racers and like, I don't remember what it's called. There was this German eraser from CW that was like half ink and half pencil but both of them are like really abrasive. So it's really good for like Craftex. Cuz craft text doesn't like free erase for some reason. So we sort of flip to the next section. So I mean for fountain pens, I have one lavender pen inked like all times because like I guess in theory not my favorite pen, but in practice it's. I mean I'm always using one so I guess it's my favorite pen.
What about by sheer quantity?
Yeah, I was gonna say is it
your favorite pen, Johnny?
I. I assume you have several, like dozen inked at any given time.
No, that's what I would have assumed.
For those who can't see it, Johnny's holding up a binder full of levengers.
One of six or seven or 40. Here we go.
Overflow to another binder.
Yeah,
there's the kids college fund right there.
Yeah, I mean I have doubles of
seven or one of them.
Like that's rare and nobody else wanted it. I'll take it.
It's like, honey, Owen's going to Yale.
Henry, buckle up. For community college.
That's what Andy said. My things I use constantly are straight edges and knives like all day. And for someone who's accident prone, I still have all my fingers. I say this before you release it. I'll be like, you know, crap. But yeah, like Olfa knives, the famous Japanese brand that are for some reason like cheap. I've always got some kind of cool new Olfa knife on deck. They have one that it holds five blades and it automatically loads them. And then now there's a big version of it which I linked in our chat, which is like. And there's a limited edition one from Japan where instead of yellow, it's black and silver.
Ooh, I never knew that was the brand name of those kind of knives. Those are the. Yeah, yeah. For those of you don't know, it's one of those like little snap off like utility knife things.
Yeah. And they're usually. They invented them and they're generally cheaper than off brands. Not to Mention like way sharper.
Yeah.
All bookbinders have their. Oh, what's the one? That's just the regular steel one, which I have, but like, I. Like they're yellow.
When you said it. Hold five. Held five blades. I didn't know. I didn't have a picture in my head, so I just imagined it being like a ninja star. Like, it was just like they all came out in every direction. Like you twist it and it's like just like pop. Right.
If you guys are. If you're bored, like, check out their website. They've got like blades for everything, including like all these different ways to not remove your finger with them. Like, they have one for opening boxes that's shaped like this and the blades are like inside, so you can only cut yourself if you pull it. It's like for pulling tape off boxes. Hmm. So I mean, I don't need anything like that because I don't have a use for it, but yeah. So you guys want to button her up or do we forget anything?
Well, I was going to mention for the non pencil items since that's kind of like a code for the fountain pens. I've really been loving my little shown like shown designs pen with the little mono nib. That little like fancy colorful rainbow fade nib. And I've been using this a lot. It's just usually sits on my little crab. Crab pen holder. And I've been using it with. I think I've talked about it here before, but a ink that was special to the San Francisco pen show. That looks like the Golden Gate Bridge. So been using that a lot. It's just a really nice nib.
Did you see now they make nibs for Javo and Bach pens for. They take those units.
Yeah, that's really cool because now you
don't have to buy one of their pens to get their nib. Yeah, I wouldn't have done that. Be like, no, buy my pen.
I think we need getting in on like sometime early in the new year. He's so cool. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
So at the end, we always like to read the names of our Patreon patrons who are at the Steinbeck stage. So official producers for this episode include Nathan Raybeck, Dana Morris, Liz Rotundo, Melissa Miller, Angie Aaron Bollinger, Ivan Hirntas, Tara Whittle, Ida Umphers, David Johnson, Phil Munson, Donnie Pierce, Tom Keakley, Andre Torres, Paul Moorhead, Stephen Fansali, Aaron Willard, Millie Blackwell, Michael d', Alosa, Tana Feliz, Ann Sipe, Michael Hagan, Mary Cullis, Kathleen Rogers, Hans Noodleman and John Wood. Thank you. Yeah, many thanks. And you know, we've got cool new stuff coming for patrons in the new year if we like, just pocket notebooks and stuff. So before we sign off, Andy, can you tell folks where to find you on the Internet?
Yeah, I am@andy, WTF? You can buy my zines at Andy Supply, which is new. And then I'm on various social media things as wellfly. How about you, Tim?
You can find me on Instagram TimothyWassom and on Twitter imWassom. How about you, Johnny?
You can find me and buy books@pencerevolution.com and I'm on social media ensolution. And we're erasable. At the Erasable podcast on social media, you can visit our Facebook page, which is facebook.com erasablepodcast. Is that correct?
Yes, yes.
And of course our Facebook group, which is like still the nice corner of the Internet after 4,000 people. Almost a decade.
Yeah, 4,000. Dang.
Yeah.
So thanks and we'll talk to you hopefully for the end of the year.
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