Ted
@takenote.bsky.social
Houstonian. Baseball fan. Co-host of Take Note, a podcast about carrying around a pocket notebook and sharing what ends up there. takenote.space
"Can't you hear the Duquesne whistle blowin'?" - Bob Dylan
"Can't you hear the Duquesne whistle blowin'?" - Bob Dylan
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Ted
@takenote.bsky.social
· Mar 14
The Take Note Newsletter | Take Note Podcast | Substack
Inspiration for keeping a notebook, stationery obsessions, and bookish content. Click to read The Take Note Newsletter, by Take Note Podcast, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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In addition to our podcast, in which we share stuff we wrote in our pocket notebooks, talk notebooks and note-taking, and discuss books, articles, and art, we also publish a newsletter. Sign up, won't you! It's all free...
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Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
This 1984 feature on Echo and the Bunnymen and their performance art-slash-show plays super fresh and weird even today. Jools Holland as I have not seen him (only seen him on the variety show, which is great).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN-A CRYSTAL DAY-THE TUBE-PART 1
YouTube video by sunsetz777
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This 1984 feature on Echo and the Bunnymen and their performance art-slash-show plays super fresh and weird even today. Jools Holland as I have not seen him (only seen him on the variety show, which is great).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...
If you like baseball history, you'll like our podcast, Clear the Field. The latest episode traces the path of a paranoid Whitey Herzog as corked bat mania encroaches.
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
Cork Hunt '87
Listen now | Accusations and home runs fly as certain Mets' hitters look too good to be true.
www.project-318.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you like baseball history, you'll like our podcast, Clear the Field. The latest episode traces the path of a paranoid Whitey Herzog as corked bat mania encroaches.
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87
Joyce Carol Oates out there trying to pull me back in to Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Joyce Carol Oates out there trying to pull me back in to Twitter.
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
DJing is funny cause if things aren't going well, you can just...play any one of a selection of the greatest songs of all time.
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
DJing is funny cause if things aren't going well, you can just...play any one of a selection of the greatest songs of all time.
Causing scary and disruptive and dehumanizing neighborhood stand-offs to catch those with felony warrants. Their felony? Entering the country three times. Not the dangerous criminals that ICE would have you believe they are. In fact, they were going to work at 5 a.m.
www.chron.com/news/houston...
www.chron.com/news/houston...
ICE operation leads to tense Houston neighborhood standoff
The hours-long confrontation caused hours of chaos in Pasadena.
www.chron.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Causing scary and disruptive and dehumanizing neighborhood stand-offs to catch those with felony warrants. Their felony? Entering the country three times. Not the dangerous criminals that ICE would have you believe they are. In fact, they were going to work at 5 a.m.
www.chron.com/news/houston...
www.chron.com/news/houston...
The Trump era means we are forced to endure ever more insane moments like this.
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Trump era means we are forced to endure ever more insane moments like this.
"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." mm hmmm
I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
defector.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." mm hmmm
I've never had much problem with the whole pretend kings and queens thing but today it has a kind of ghastly pallor.
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've never had much problem with the whole pretend kings and queens thing but today it has a kind of ghastly pallor.
A timely essay from Anthony Kwame Appiah on the complex push and pull of free speech.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Watch What You Say | Kwame Anthony Appiah
Fara Dabhoiwala considers the right to free speech the con at the heart of the Constitution because of the harms it permits. But what about the harms it prevents?
www.nybooks.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A timely essay from Anthony Kwame Appiah on the complex push and pull of free speech.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Thanks for this reminder that when Trump had COVID, he signed a blank piece of paper in order to pretend that he was still working. #propaganda
I wrote about what happens when Trump is gone, and how remembering that he *will* be gone before you might help shape what kind of actions to think about taking today.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Thanks for this reminder that when Trump had COVID, he signed a blank piece of paper in order to pretend that he was still working. #propaganda
The long-term negative impact of the DOGE fiasco will haunt us for many, many years.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
www.propublica.org
August 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The long-term negative impact of the DOGE fiasco will haunt us for many, many years.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
Sorry but what red-blooded American and/or human, generally, is totally good with "masked soldiers" and "masked police"?
August 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sorry but what red-blooded American and/or human, generally, is totally good with "masked soldiers" and "masked police"?
One of these days, I'll have to watch Interstellar. Not today, though, my son wants to watch Grown Ups (again).
August 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One of these days, I'll have to watch Interstellar. Not today, though, my son wants to watch Grown Ups (again).
Web sites that purportedly would like you to read their content do everything they can to distract and deflect you from...reading...their...content.
August 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Web sites that purportedly would like you to read their content do everything they can to distract and deflect you from...reading...their...content.
Djokovic the dad is really pulling me in…
July 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Djokovic the dad is really pulling me in…
We should all strive for the laser focus exercised by the MLB staff member who has to make sure a notable baseball gets into his hands after a milestone play.
July 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We should all strive for the laser focus exercised by the MLB staff member who has to make sure a notable baseball gets into his hands after a milestone play.
Pete Rose is the Trump of baseball, but where sanity and basic decency prevailed instead of, well /looks around
May 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pete Rose is the Trump of baseball, but where sanity and basic decency prevailed instead of, well /looks around
The more you learn, the clearer it is: there is no end to the shittiness of Pete Rose.
May 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The more you learn, the clearer it is: there is no end to the shittiness of Pete Rose.