Episode 247: On a Farm with a Monkey

TOPIC: A Mark on a Page

This week, Dan and Merlin kick off by talking about Dan's recent interview with "Weird Al" and how he's such an interesting harbinger of changing times for media and platforms.

Next, Merlin responds to a listener's question about how he uses a notebook, which leads to an extended dissertation on how to ruin your notebook in the best way possible. Nothing doesn't go in here.

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | The Ihnatko Almanac #161: Project Doneway
  On the eve of the finale of "Project Runway," Andy and special guest Merlin Mann talk about Season 14. Along the way, they talk about creativity, working under pressure, and the differences between how one processes failure in their Twenties and failure in their Forties.
  
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Mandatory Fun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Mandatory Fun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Many Loves of Howard Hughes: Katharine Hepburn, 1938 (YMRT #11) — Karina Longworth
  
• Chris Hardwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Wreck This Journal: Keri Smith: 9780399533464: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Wreck This Journal (Black) Expanded Ed.: Keri Smith: 9780399161940: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Amazon.com: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, 2nd Edition (9781590302613): Natalie Goldberg: Books
  
• Nothing Doesn't Go In Here | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
• Spectre (2015) - Box Office Mojo
  Production Budget: $245 million
  
• Siracusa on Toasters — Liss is More
  Fast forward four years. John, Marco, and myself are now hosting ATP. When Cards Against Humanity decided to sponsor our show, Max decided as usual to eschew a normal ad read. Instead, he had a brilliant idea: CAH would send John a toaster to review.

  We’ve been asked more than once to have a compendium of all of these reviews. This is it.
  

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. - Wayne Gretzky at BrainyQuote
  I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
  
• Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas.
  
• Cards Against Humanity
  

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