Editing The Pen Addict 119/transcript (section)

== Tash and McGlider ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh, Tash and McGlider. I bought a traveler. A listener sent me a Tash and McGlider. Oh, so what are you, what are you doing with yours? What's in it? I'm looking at it. Oh, I know. I, I, we haven't, we haven't talked about this. No, we haven't. Hmm. Okay. So here's what I'm going to do. I have not packed for XOXO yet, but I'm only going to take, you know, like one kind of notebook apparatus. And I was planning on taking the traveler's notebook, but I will make a deal and I will take the Tash and McGlider. Yes. Um, yeah. And I will kit it out and we will do a podcast about, uh, me, uh, and the Tash and McGlider road trip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Perfect.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Yeah. That sounds, that sounds great. Yeah. Cause what, cause what I find when you're going away, say for the weekend or for a week or, uh, you, you can have everything in there that gives you, it's like, it's like carrying a little office around with you. You know, if you want to write a letter, you can do that. If you want to, if you want to do some editing, you can do that. If you want to take notes, if you want to do some creative writing, like whatever you're working on, you can have a little section that's devoted to it and it's all right there for you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mine really comes into its own when I travel. Cause I can kind of put, I put my passport in it and then I put like all of my papers that I need like to check in at the hotel. Um, and I have my iPad with me and I have notebooks and I just, man, I love this thing so much. It's just a shame that it's so, that it's, it's, it's not really accessible for Americans to get their hands on one. Cause it's, cause it's in euros. It's expensive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's definitely expensive. And you know, it's, but it's such a killer product. And you know, I just, I had just have to commit to one thing. And I think for travel, it's ideal because I'm neat. I don't need just a notebook. Like I, I don't want to carry just like a field notes notebook in my back pocket on this trip, you know, cause I need to put papers away. I need to carry business cards. I need to carry some extra pens and some just more, it's going to help fit a lot of random things. I need to just stash away, but I just want to have one place to put them. And I think that's, that's probably the key with, uh, with this and, and especially looking at your guys set up. So I can't believe we haven't talked about this, at least in my head we did. So, um, we will, we will correct that coming soon.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it is, it is awesome. And that's, um, that's definitely, uh, I don't know, maybe my, my favorite post you've done so far, John. So, so no pressure on, um, on stepping, stepping your game up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Brad, I'll try to try to top it. I know. I know. I know. You're, you're so good. Um, well, man, I, I really appreciate you coming on today and I think, I think we've about covered it and actually I could, I could continue to talk to you just for hours. You're, I don't know.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Let's do it some other time. I would love to come back on. We would love to have you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. 100% love to have you back on. I just, I just feel like, like, you know, you and I had Myke and everyone else, we just need to go out for a drink and chat and we'd end up like shutting the bar down. Just, we would lose track. We would lose track of time. We just have so much to talk about. So I really appreciate you coming on and I want you to take this time now to pimp yourself, pimp your books, pimp your website. I, I, I'm reading, I'm, I didn't, I haven't finished yet, but I'm reading a pieces for the left hand, which was a collection of anecdotes that you, that you did. Um, that's got me.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Thank you for buying that, by the way. It's, I really appreciate it. Oh, absolutely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have thoroughly enjoyed that and everyone, uh, should pick up that book for sure. Just cause, uh, I, I, I can vouch for that one. It's gotten, uh, great reviews. I've loved the stories. I've actually tweeted you a couple of times, um, while I'm reading, I'm like going, wait a minute. You just blew my mind on this one. So.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Oh, and you know, I sent, Hey Myke, did you get the package I sent you? Yes, I did.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm sure I emailed you about that. Didn't I? Or Derek? I think so, no. Oh, I'm sure I did. Well, then if not. Oh, you're a terrible person. No, I'm sure I sent you a message.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Oh, I'm, I'm, I might've missed it, but, but, uh, yeah, I, I, I feel like, uh, that's a, if someone wants to read what I do, that's the book people seem to really like. That's, uh, um, it's my shortest one and it's in print and you can get it from Grey Wolf Press or, you know, whatever bookstore you like, you can order it from. But, um, it's a book of about 100 really short stories. And, um, I've got, uh, so you want me to pin myself? Um, so yeah, the, the, the blog is called litter, litter ambivalence. Uh, and you can, all the stuff that I do, you can find via links at jayrobertlennon.com, which is my website. And, uh, I've, the next book I have coming out is called P is called, um, see you in paradise. It's a, uh, collection of more conventional length short stories. And I'm going to go on a U S book tour to, uh, uh, like Seattle, Portland, Spokane, New York, uh, Boston, a couple of other places. So I'll, I'll, that will all be in November. So if anyone wants to listen to me, read or get together for a beer or a meal, that would be a great time to do it. I would love to meet people and I'll put that on the, on the website, put Atlanta on

'''Brad Dowdy:''' the radar and, uh, I will get a crowd out there for you, man.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' I would love to, is there like a good independent bookstore that you like to shop at in Atlanta where there are readings? I will find one for you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The first thing I can think of is actually a record store. It's called criminal records.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Oh, perfect.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But they do in-store readings and poetry as well as music all the time. And they're a huge, huge, um, you know, local, um, independent shop. That's really big in the community.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' So, well, send me a link to them. I would love to come. I, uh, the book tours rarely take me to the South. I think, I don't know. I actually don't know why, but, um, but there are great bookstores all throughout the South. And I would love to come down there one of these days.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. We will work on that. So, well, it has been a pleasure, sir. I mean, this is, uh, this has been a wonderful show and we appreciate you coming on and we will absolutely 100% guarantee we will do this again soon.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Definitely.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Yeah. Wonderful. Thanks, you guys. This was a really great conversation. I, uh, look forward to talking to you again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. If you want to find the show notes for this week's episode, go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 119. We'll be back next week with another episode of the penaddict. Thank you so much for, uh, for our sponsors for sponsoring us, I guess. Uh, Linda, Studio Neat. And Igloo. My name is Myke Curley. I'm at iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. Brad is at Dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. And he writes over at penaddict.com. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Goodbye, Brad.

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