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People come for the number 2 pencils, people stay for the number 2 jokes.

The full, the full Timby.

So is it that time already?

Yeah, yeah, I feel like we're just saying hello to summer.

It's been a lot. Tools of the trade. Let's see, what have I been doing? I've been consuming. There's a show on Netflix that we've been watching called St. Denis Medical. I don't know if any of you have seen this before. I guess it's on NBC as well, or it has been like it's on, but I like barely know what's happening on actual television television nowadays. But this is almost exactly like if The Office took place in a hospital. It is like that same format. It has the same sort of beat. It has the same like character archetypes, like the, the woman who runs the hospital is exactly Michael Scott. Like it is so, so spot on. And there is definitely like the, I don't know, the Jim character and a little bit the Dwight character, although he's like a hotshot surgeon instead of like a nerdy, like, I don't know, paper salesman. But they made 3 or 2 seasons so far. They're going to make a third. Uh, first season is on Netflix, second season on Peacock because that's the world we live in where we're back to not knowing who's running what show where. Yeah. So been watching that. It's, it's nice. It definitely scratches that same itch that, that The Office or Parks and Rec does. I think if I had to pick like a show, like Parks and Rec would be like the one that is like the best to me, for me, just because I feel like it's a little bit more like happy and optimistic than like either of these are, but still, it's really good. There's always, you know, it takes place in the ER. So there's always like, I don't know, some like, we're saving lives kind of a moment at St. Denis Medical. But yeah, been enjoying that. What am I reading? Oh, I am reading something that I don't know if we should talk about it. We got some advanced copies of this book. Oh yeah. Yeah, let's tell you what, I will talk about it and I will take it out. I will email the publisher and ask if it's okay to talk about, but I'll take it out if we can't. But there's a, a gay guy named Gabe Bullard and, um, he is writing a book called Against Convenience, uh, which is a lot about like, it's not like, oh, I'm going analog because I love analog. It's mostly about how we are all sort of addicted to convenience, like with Amazon and with streaming services and with everything on our smartphones and how. That sort of like can be addicting because it kind of squirts that dopamine into our brains. And also how like choosing those convenience, that convenience can like, I don't know, do things like fuel burnout. And also like all of that convenience is like funding an under-economy of people who are not, who are the opposite of convenience, who are serving us in this way with DoorDash and Amazon and like kind of moving slower and adding friction back into our lives can like actually maybe be good in some ways. So It is not out yet. I think it comes out in September. I can't remember the exact date. And we are maybe, or maybe not going to have Gabe on the show to talk about that because I feel like his, uh, his thesis kind of like matches a lot of what we talk about here. So, uh, we have some, uh, some, some galley copies of it that we've been reading. So that's been most of my, most of the time I've been spending on this lately. I don't know about you guys. Have you cracked it open yet?

I have like, we were talking about this earlier and like, I have some sort of a weird false memory of, um, us interviewing him for some other thing. And I was like, did we even interview like some journalist who's involved in like digital media in some way. Like, I, I just have this like memory of talking to him and I, I don't know where that comes from.

Mandela effect. Oh, the Mandela effect.

Yeah.

Like, except Mandela effect is like a whole bunch of people like think this thing like the Berenstain Bears or Berenstain Bears or Nelson Mandela dying. And this is like, I don't know what the Mandela effect of one is. Is that just like, I don't know, just Hallucination.

Yeah. So I don't know. I'm excited about it and I, I'm, if anybody, if any listeners are just like, oh yeah, you totally, Johnny and Tim are wrong. Screw those guys. You know what you're saying?

Well, I did do the thing because I have all of our transcripts, like on my computer and uploaded to Claude, like speaking to convenience. I basically just had Claude like tell me, did we ever interview this guy or somebody like this guy? And Claude was like, no, you're crazy.

Yeah, that's true.

That's a good point. So yeah, so I'm reading that book when it comes out. I will remind you, but preorder Against Convenience if you, if you can, preorder from the publisher. I'll have a link in show notes because that really helps. That that helps them kind of like judge how much they should print and where they should send it. Things like that. So I'll put a link in show notes and yeah, sometime after it comes out, we might be talking to him, which is cool. And what am I doing— writing on? I have been writing, actually, so I've been using— I think we've talked about this before. I've been using this little Tombow Studio pen that's really cute. It's one of those like little felt tip pens that you fill up with your own ink. So I have a really nice kind of like light orange in here that I've been using for the summer. So I need to go darker for, for the winter. I've also, can't believe I'm saying this, but you've been playing with this mechanical pencil that looks like a pencil by, I can't remember who makes it, but it's basically like a little 2mm like lead holder, except it does auto advance. A friend went to London and went to Choosing Keeping and brought this back for me.

This is just the nicest. I know it's real fat. It's been nice to write with. Something else, random thing. The company I work for, so I started a new job about a month and a half ago. It's this company called BetterUp and they sent me a little swag thing with like a lap— like a laptop sleeve and like a little terrible smelling candle, but they sent me this multi pen and I was just like, you know, usually company swag pens are crap. And I was like using this, like, this is really nice. And then I looked at it and it's a PaperMate InkJoy. So I was like, okay, this is, this is like a pretty good one. So good on you, BetterUp, for like doing a nice, a nice multiply pen. Like the green is, is like pretty vibrant and pretty nice.

Yeah. Always, always. That is it for me. How about you, Tim?

That's right, I need to pick that up.

Um, how old is that guy?

The one about owls is really good.

Yeah, the one with—

So what's the deal? What's the deal with Ted Lasso this season? Did they like— he's, he's coaching like a women's soccer team now, is that right?

First time I ever saw that show, I was immediately like, this is Tim Wasem coded. Like, it's, it's like sports but not sports, but there's a lot of sports and just like optimism. And yep, just like, there he is. Yeah, I just instantly was like, yeah, this is, this is for Tim.

Do you know what a shaggy dog story is?

It's the way— so my grandmother used to love these and would tell me all the time, and I remember just like cracking up. And from what I remember, and correct me if I'm wrong, Johnny, about what you remember it as, but it's basically like an elaborate pun joke. Like it kind of like builds up into a pun. I'm trying to think of a good example, but yeah, that's— it's sort of like a Really long story joke that kind of ends in this way. Is that what you know it as, Johnny?

Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's an exceptionally long rambling joke or narrative that builds up immense anticipation detail only to end in a completely anticlimactic, silly, or pointless punchline.

When I was young and I guess a preteenager and got my first typewriter, which, you know, as you do, I remember I remember curating my own, like I had a series of joke books and I would get some from the library and I remember like picking the ones that I especially liked and I would type them out just to like make my own joke book. So I probably still have it somewhere, just like several typewritten pages of Andy's Book of Jokes or something.

you know what, people come to The Erasable Podcast for the pencils, but they stay for the sophisticated humor, is what for the poop jokes.

People come for the number 2 pencils, people stay for the number 2 jokes.

I keep meaning to pick up the book, his book, that's like the same, has the same cover.

This is something I probably should know because like you said, everybody watched it except me. Is Hamlet in any way related to Hamnet? Like Did he draw inspiration? Oh, okay.

Hey, that was my own fault.

Not as smart as you, but you know.

I didn't think I realized they were— they were Sarus. Yeah, yeah.

Imperian.

Remind me how many True Writers you're on to now, Johnny.

I'll tell you what, man, it's Tuesday.

Yeah, Tuesday, Lennon. Um, I guess before we start with that, a reminder that like, if you're listening to this episode and you would like to see our beautiful faces and the occasional demo of something that we're holding up to the screen, come join us on Patreon. If you—

Johnny's. Yeah. It looks like he's like right in front of the Eye of Sauron right now.

Um, so if you, if you go to Patreon, patreon.com/erasable and pledge, uh, or become a member at any level, you can get this video and, uh, occasional cool other stuff. So that's there. Uh, Fresh Points. So since we left, I mean, I talked about this last time, but also like I've gone even deeper in the rabbit hole, uh, since last time about watches and wristwatches and Man, I'm definitely like going deep on that and it's been like, I don't know, my, you know how like during the pandemic we all were, we were all just sort of like hyperfixated on something to escape the horrors, like, like sourdough or whatever.

Yeah. Zines, bookbinding, um, fountain pens, fountain pens, pencils. Well, the, I guess the horrors of you know, like mid-2026, uh, for me that's watches. So early 2026 it was cameras, now it's watches. So I'm just like—

Yeah, exactly. Going deep. And it's been— yeah, it's been really interesting. I think the thing that is really the most interesting to me is watch dial design and the choices that are made there, because I can't remember if I mentioned this last time, but like You know, watches, like most of the like variations out there come from like different jobs, right? Like, hey, this is for pilots or this is for divers or this is for race car drivers or this is for railmasters or something like that. And they all—

And it all, it all kind of affects like what numbers get shown or how the numbers are shown. Like, I really love something I learned about myself. I really love like military field watches because they really— all the numbers 1 through 12 is on there. Like, they do it specifically to— for like legibility and contrast. So if you're in, you know, in the war zone, you can like just really glance at your wrist and kind of see what time it is. And I actually just found out— so, uh, you know, the like old field watch that was in Interstellar, like that Hamilton watch that like played a part where like they would control the like ticking to send a message back through time— Hamilton actually makes that. You can buy a recreation of it. It's called the Field Murph, because, you know, Murph is the, the character and it's, yeah, it, anyway, I don't need to spend $1,000 on a watch. And so I just, I don't know, I've been thinking about like all these like little design choices that like lead up to these, this, like this language of watch style design. And what's been going through my head is what would a podcaster's watch look like?

It's funny you should say that. Anyway, that reminds me, um, so, so the things that I've been thinking about for this was like You know, the outer hands instead of like hours, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 through 12, it would actually be minutes because, you know, as a podcaster, you're like more focused on like the minutes that you've been recording.

And I think that this is my, this is what I've been playing around with. Uh, cuz I've been just like playing, uh, the last 10 minutes and this is a little bit of like a, I don't know what the right word, like a straw man, but like the last 10 minutes would be somehow highlighted.

And with racing watches, like if you're racing cars, the first like 10 minutes on the watch dial, the hand, like the numbers are like especially sort of highlighted because like the first several seconds matters.

I think with podcasts, it's the last several seconds because that's when you're like trying to wrap it up. Last several minutes, I should say, not seconds. So yeah, I think that that probably like the 50 to 60 minutes are somehow like highlighted or called out. I don't know. So I've also, another fun thing I've been doing is trying to—

Yeah.

I like that. Put like a, like a sound. I've also been trying to figure out how one manufactures dials because like, I think it'd be cool. I've, I've decided to like build my own watch. You can buy like just the movement and just a case and just the hands and things like that. And just for fun. That's what I've been wanting to do. So I've been just really going deep on like, how do you actually like manufacture a watch, which has to be really high legibility and high resolution on a very, very small like size. So for example, like this is like a watch dial, like divorced from its, its case, right? Like it's just a tiny little dot and you have to pack a lot of information in there. That's like typically 29mm radius is like the typical watch dial. Some of 'em are bigger, but that's kind of the basic one. So I don't know. It's just a fun thing to think about. And part of me was just like, you know, I've been researching, there are a lot of books about watches. There are not a lot of books about watch design, like why these things came to be. And nobody steal my idea, but I would love to, like, wouldn't it be cool to write a book kind of like The Notebook, like the book that Rolly Allen wrote, but about watches instead of notebooks. Right. Just like little chapters that have like little stories about how like something came to be. So I someday, if I'm like, next time I get laid off, or if I just like wanna have fun, maybe I'll work on that. Maybe I'll pitch that around. But yeah, been doing watch style design, thinking about that a lot.

Yeah. We've been, I know we, we here have been talking a lot about like Timex and just kind of like how, just what a, stallwart they are kind of in the space. And I'm wearing my like Timex Expedition watch, which has just really legible numbers on there. Like just nice and big, which I love. And also like, I really like this old kind of case style, which is very like from the like 1970s and '80s. They call it like a, I think Omega calls it like a C-shaped case or something. I just really see, I just really like it. So.

Yeah, you see, that keeps on ticking.

Oh, nice. Cause dumb watch.

Just like, see, I, I did do a splurge a little bit on eBay and I bought a very, very historical watch, uh, which is a Timex Mickey Mouse watch.

This was, this was the first one that they made that was electric. So this like has an electric kind of quartz movement back there. So this is from like the I think this is from the mid to late '70s, but it's a, I don't know. It's fun. I'm not like a Disney adult, but that watch is cool. So, so yeah, that's been, that's kind of the rabbit hole I've been going down just, just for the hell of it. Erica has, is very tired of me talking about watches. So that's why I'm telling you all this instead of just like, hey, that's why we have this podcast. Yes, exactly. Like we can go down our like little hyperfixation rabbit holes. Yeah. This podcast should be called Info Dump.

Yeah. A couple other things. And then I wanna talk about some of the— we can talk about some of the Blackwings, but, um, I— something fun that I did is if you are part of stationery YouTube at all, you've probably seen that all the stores are getting their like Hobonichis in soon. So all of the designs are going up on there. I, I have decided, I think last year, I'm sure I talked about this last year. I, I bought a Hobonichi Weeks. I kind of like, kind of just pored over the details and which ones I wanted to get. And I think that my Hobonichi experiment did not stick. And I think one of the big reasons—

And I loved it. It was fun, but also like it just, the pre-made layout just wasn't for me. Like those grids are super small. As much as like Tomoe River paper, that kind of like thin vellum is nice. Like it just isn't, isn't for me. And then like, I just don't use— I know Johnny, you're going to talk a little bit about planners and stuff, but I just don't use those like kind of weekly by the day planner pages. Like all of my planner and organizational stuff are basically like bullet journal style stuff. And I'm going back to Field Notes cause I can do my own grid in there and I'm kind of not bound by that, but that doesn't stop me from appreciating the Hobonichi Weeks, which I still think are really beautiful. And there's some cool ones. There's some Victoria and Albert, like the V&A Museum in London, some cool collaborations that you know, involve them. That's really neat. There's some other cool ones too, but I think that's my favorite. So go look on the, um, my brain is not working, the stationery store in Brooklyn. Uh, they just hosted the big stationery fest. Um, Yoseka Stationery, their YouTube channel, they have like a 35-minute video of them just showing all the new Hobonichi stuff that's coming out. So yeah, that's pretty fun.

Is that the Cousin or the Techo?

Okay.

And that's, that's why I liked it just cuz as an object of interest, it's so gorgeous. And I made it till like, yeah, somewhere in April because I, I basically Used it. Well, I started in December 1st is when mine started and I made it through into April. And by that point I had gotten laid off. And so I didn't really have like work stuff to put in there. So that it all kind of fell apart then. So, oh, I'm a liar.

Look at you.

Which, uh, which cover did you get? Remind me.

Oh yeah.

Yeah. And something, somebody like Brad who writes very tiny, I feel like that's great for him cuz that grid is so small and yeah.

Somebody like me, like I'm just kind of big and sloppy. Like it isn't, it doesn't, doesn't work great. Like I love, I love the Field Notes. Like. Lined paper because like the lined, like generally speaking, like it's just, it's nice and nice and tall. So you can fit a lot of, fit a lot of crap in there. Big, big sloppy American handwriting. Um, so that's Hobonichi stuff. Speaking of, I don't know, Brad and all that stuff. Uh, the San Francisco Pen Show is this weekend, which is cool. My friend Bruce from Bungo Box is in town. We had brunch yesterday or on Saturday.

I am probably not going to the pen show. I, it's so fricking crowded. It is, it's A, it's not in San Francisco. It's like 30 miles down the coast. Kind of hard to get to when you don't have a car. Uh, and also it's just so crowded. It's in this hotel and it feels like kind of like a fire safety hazard. Like it, it, there's so many people and the hallways are like, literally you have to kind of like jam your way through people and I typically go mostly just to see my friends anyway. And like, like Joe Craze is there and Ian Schon is there and Ana's usually there and, you know, Bruce and Taizo and Brad, you know, but it's like, they're working. So like, they don't have a lot of time to hang out and talk.

I think that, so they have been steadily growing, like every year there's just more and more people who come and they do charge like entry fees and they do charge exhibitors. So they have like revenue that comes in that grows, but to sort of like move from one space to the next, it costs so much money. They're spending like literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to do this. And this is all run by volunteers who are really like rightfully so, like, like, I don't want to take on this personal burden if nobody comes to the show. So they're very conservative about how they grow. Um, whereas like something like the New York Stationery Festival that Yoseka put on, like, I mean, that was also apparently really crowded and sold out, but like they have professional professional event planners who plan that. So it's a lot more logistics. And I think the San Francisco Pen Show people, like, I mean, they're all volunteer. This isn't the kind of thing that they do. I think that like they need to take the next step cuz like, I don't know what that is. Like if it's a conference center, what they've been doing at like hotel, like conference hotels, exhi— exhibition, like halls and hotels. And it's just, it's too much. They have like vendors in the hallways. They have, It's just a lot. So I'm, uh, what on earth, Johnny?

Jenny's just putting a GIF in our Google Doc.

One thing I will mention from the pen show, um, Ian Schon. Has anybody seen Ian Schon's new dip nib? No, uh, he just, uh, posted maybe last week on Instagram. He's making a dip nib now, kind of the same roll titanium, like CNC'd out. Looks really cool. Also, it's like $68, which for any— for a Schon design, that is really inexpensive. Of course, you have to put it in one of his, like, barrels, which are another couple hundred. But I don't know, I keep breaking glass nibs, so— because I have kind of a heavy hand, and so I might pick up one of his, which is good.

I don't know. It's not, it is a stick-in and I'm willing to bet that he has some sort of backwards compatibility. Like if your pen can fit this nib, it can fit this thing. I actually don't know that he's going to debut it at the pen show. And then I think you can buy it online like a couple of weeks later. So I think that might just do that.

That'd be great.

Have a little snack while you sample your inks. I love that.

I'm sorry, Johnny. I have to, I have to delete this. This is very distracting. Every time I look over. All right. Uh, Pencil stuff, Hobonichi stuff. Uh, let's talk about some Blackwings.

Yeah. Speaking of Disney adults, this is something, oh man, they, I feel like Blackwing and also Charles, Charles's personal Instagram, everybody's just like been teasing this forever. And I get it. Like if you wanna work with, with the mouse, like I've worked at companies that have like Disney as clients and they are very specific and very like, you know, this is how we are, you gotta, you gotta do what we want. And it's funny because Blackwing's also kind of like that. So I've been really interested to see, and of course, you know, it usually has to do with who has the power in that case. Like, right? Like sometimes when Blackwing's talking to like individual, like, like small indie stationery shops, like Blackwing's the one with the power, but I'm sure in this case, Disney's the one with the power. But all this to say, uh, Blackwing has Disney pencils now, which is really cool. And for people like, You know, this is automatic good gifts for Disney adults. Like my sisters, been thinking about getting them a pack, like one of my sisters, a pack of these, cuz they're good pencils and Disney stuff. And it's the, oh, let's see. Let me go to their website. It is people who know more about Disney than I do probably know this, but it's like, um, like some sort of like a retro Mickey Mouse thing. Is that, do either of you know what I'm talking about?

But yeah, they're, um, yeah, it's sort of like a Disney and Friends is what it's called. And I guess it's like a, just like a, like a retro throwback, just like classic Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Donald kind of thing. And they have these like pencils with like some nice bright colors and like the, the characters on them and kind of this retro look. And of course they have a slate notebook and a sharpener in the way that they do. And you can buy a pack and I like the sharpener. Yeah.

The sharpener's really nice.

And we are, we are fully up into $40 a dozen now. Uh, this. This Blackwing, or yeah, this, this set is, uh, $40 for the Disney things, which maybe, maybe that extra $4 is for like licensing rights or something. Cause I think even their limited editions are still like $36, right?

So, and yeah, no, no idea kind of what, yeah, that arrangement is, is this Blackwing licensing from Disney or is this Disney saying like, oh, hey, like you are now our exclusive high-end pencil provider or something. I don't know. Can I go to like a gift shop in a Disney park and get this?

I don't know.

I don't know. You can get your $24 frozen margarita and your your Mickey Mouse, uh, Blackwing set.

Have you seen— I was watching— I got ripped off about—

have you seen that you— that Instagram thing that's like #disneymath? It's like people who like plan vacations to Disney and like have to pay for hotels and like the FastPass to get through the lines and like It's like hashtag Disney math. It's like, when is it real?

Disney, I mean, kind of.

They call it pixie dust.

It's just like crushed up crystal meth that comes out of a little Tinkerbell, uh, container.

Uh, episode title: Disney Math. So yeah, I— you guys don't have these in hand, right? Like, you don't know? I don't know what these— okay, um, I'm gonna go look at the Blackwing. They are— oh, they're soft! They're the soft graphite ones, which is interesting.

I would have, I would expect them to go with like firm or balanced or something, but yeah. Soft. I don't know. Maybe soft is still like kind of the bestseller. I feel like they still very much lean into that for a lot of people. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, do you wanna talk about the, uh, anything else to say with the Disney pencils or should we move on to the, the volumes?

Yeah.

This one was really cool. I, So every once in a while, because I live geographically pretty close to Stockton, I get my pencils in before they announce it. So sometimes I just like can see it before other people do. So these came in, I think like on Friday. And yeah, I, so remember how last week or last time we were talking about how we really liked the Paletas Field Notes edition. It was very much related to like Mexican Americans. It had kind of in the face of like America's 250th anniversary, like we celebrated a Mexican thing, which is kind of fun and maybe a little bit charged. And I think that maybe we even joked that like Blackwing wouldn't dare. So I'm prepared and glad and ready to eat my words because these are the Frida Kahlo edition. And I, yeah, did not at all guess it based on their teaser, but like, these are really beautiful. Like I'm holding it up to the camera right now and it has kind of like a teal eraser and like a pink ferrule, which I think is a new one. new color, kind of a pink metallic ferrule and just sort of a nice, like, thick floral Frida Kahlo-ish thing with like kind of some birds and lips and squigglies and some flowers. And yeah, I just really like the colors and it is like still wrapped, right? Like the design is wrapped. And so there is, uh, they did, I think they did a little bit better of a job of like cutting the pattern off at the seams. So it is Uh, it doesn't like cut off the pattern and it just kind of ends there. You can kind of see where it ends. It just kind of mirrors to the next one. So I think they did a pretty good job with that.

I think so.

I think it's still a wrap.

But they, I think they did a very kind of careful job with it. They, they kind of used this pattern that's on the box, 143, I guess. Uh, signifies the number of paintings commonly attributed to Frida Kahlo over the course of her life.

Yeah, I noticed that, and I wonder, like, there's got to be something consideration in the production run that, like, I'm just not thinking about, right? Like, I know that they attach the ferrules to the blanks or to the pencils once they come back to the US. And so are they making, are they doing them more carefully because it's a smaller run than they usually do? I don't know. I have no idea.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking at the, at the lineup and yeah, like the, it's very much made so like the side that has the Blackwing imprint on it is kind of like flat side up. So when it's like laying on the desk, it can be, you know, showing that. But yeah, I, I don't know. This is, I think my favorite edition. I'm gonna go look at a list of like, you know, what they've, what they've been doing lately. But I think this is my favorite volumes in, in a while.

Like they, the last one was, there was the bird one and then there was the like 343, the television one. And oh yeah, there was, yeah, there was the, um, volume 11, the like basketball one, which like I forgot about, which I think tells you, I don't know, you know, more about that.

Yeah, right, the Bill Russell one. Uh, this might be my favorite.

Okay, yeah, since, um, the Golden Gate Bridge one, I think.

Yeah, I wish we could bring back the way that they did it with the Tahoe one where it was like that subtle raised texture, and I think probably those wrap technology, but they did a really good job of making that very seamless. It was so nice to hold.

That was like within our first couple of years, but let's do one of those again. But yeah, these are—

Yeah. And that's another good point is— yeah, this is saturated. This is very, it's very bold color. And I feel like it's not kind of washed out. Like, like the, the Jerry Garcia one, the 710 is like, that, that was kind of a cool design, but also it was like a little. A little faded, a little kind of like, um, desaturated. So this one is really bold and it is very— I'm sure I'm not on Facebook anymore, so I'm sure some of the people in the field, the groups are just like, oh, these are very feminine. Like, these are too girly for me.

Yeah.

I did.

It is a little It's a little mirror with a little flower on it and you can open it up.

Let me see if I can get a, get Tim in that, that frame there. There you go. Hey, you get, here's Johnny.

Yeah. Yeah. I, I need to sharpen one of these up, but it is the soft graphite, like the Disney ones. So always a banger.

Any, uh, anything else?

I love that notebook. I, I don't think, I mean, I, I don't need another notebook, but yeah, that was, that was gorgeous. That notebook. Gosh, I don't know. Maybe I do want that sharpener. Do I need a third Blackwing one-stage sharpener?

Yeah, sign your—

You know what I just realized is so 3 issues ago, they started doing this little zine that comes out with the quarterly. Did I— is this new, or have I just not noticed this? Is they're selling the zine for $10 on their website?

Yeah. I don't— I mean, don't buy it. I don't think it's worth that, but it is cool that that's what they include in the subscribers edition.

Yeah. I like that they do a zine. Like, I appreciate the sort of like editorial nature of it and that they're like, you know, picking through this and it's always 10-ish pages. They have like a little thing about like, like it's really high quality. It's well printed. I should probably hoard these cuz you know, that's how, who I am. But, um, and it has a little bit more about like the, the theme that goes with, there's some coloring pages in here, but like, I like the coloring pages.

Uh, I don't, I'd be interested to know if anybody's paying $10 for it.

Yeah, over her grave, if she has a grave, just cranking out the Frida Kahlos.

That is it for me and Blackwings and stuff. Tim, what are you— what's new with you?

Did you, um, I assume you saw this, Tim. You can buy the rights to use her artwork as that tattoo on here. Did you see that?

Yeah. If you, if you go to her—

You pay your $25 and it grants the rights to get my artwork tattooed, which I think is a really—

Neat idea because, you know, people might still just steal it, but if they kind of want to do the right thing, but don't know how, like, this is—

That's really cool.

If you want a notebook that somebody has literally bled for. Go to Johnny.

If you're lucky.

Huh.

Yeah.

I wonder if I can find that in a, a bookstore around here.

So, oh yeah. Do you have, um, well, okay, so let's— I want to hear about this. How did— tell me about the layout design decisions that you made with the planner.

I'm, I'm looking at your website now, Johnny, and I don't know how I missed this. This is really cool. The '90s diskette journals.

Yeah, they, um, so Johnny made, I don't know, where did you find these floppy disks?

They're little, um, 3.5-inch floppy disks as covers. with, uh, a bunch of pages, like lined pages, kind of like inside. And you can get 'em in like, they're like the age of like late '90s with the like bright color translucent plastic floppy disks. I had a bunch of those.

Yeah.

These are, this is so cool. I, uh, yeah, I love those.

Uh, as long as you want yellow or red, cuz blue, purple, and green are sold out.

You know what I want is a, a ZipDisk notebook. Do you remember ZipDisks?

They're, they were 100 megabytes instead of 1.4 megabytes. And I, I had a ZipDrive on my, my first computer and I just could not, I was like, what am I gonna I'll never fill up 100 megabytes. I say with my 1 terabyte hard drive that is getting full as we record.

So yeah, I don't know, you have some cool stuff on your on your website, Johnny. I think you're, you're so humble about it, like you don't talk about a lot of this, and you have like a huge inventory.

Yeah, that is a really good price.

Yeah, yeah.

You know what I still don't own yet is one of the new Tesscoring 100s.

Yeah, I need to grab one of those.

Oh yeah, well, they're still selling the Tennessee Reds on their website.

I meant the t-shirt. They still have the Tennessee Red t-shirts on the website, but also, yeah, the pencils themselves.

See, Tim, that could just be part of your regular collection, Tennessee and Pencils.

That's right.

It's like, comes sparkle, sparkle barrel, sparkles, like pink glitter.

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