I recently came across a 2005 post from Orange Crate Art, where he recognizes a description of a familiar notebook in a New Yorker article:

From a New Yorker piece on Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm:

Like many comedians, Larry David carries a pocket notebook for writing down ideas. “You’re in a parking garage, and Larry’s wallet is empty–he forgot to ask his assistant to go to the cash machine,” [Robert] Weide, who directs several episodes a year, says. “So he says, ‘Shit, I have no money for the valet–could you give me a few bucks?’ So you find yourself giving money to Larry David, who has a few bucks. And then out comes the little notebook.”

“What would I have done if he hadn’t been there?” David said. “That could have been funny.”

The notebook is a ratty brown thing that looks as if it might have cost forty-nine cents at a stationery store. Its pages are covered with David’s illegible scrawl.

Ratty? I think not. The notebook, as seen in Curb Your Enthusiasm, seems to be a Boorum memo book, made by Esselte Pendaflex. The photograph above is of one of mine ($1.55 whenever I bought it, not all that long ago). Sad to say, I can’t find one reference to this well-made item online. Has it become, like the Blackwing pencil, a part of the past?

Of course the Blackwing pencil has since been resurrected… but these notebooks are still hard to find! I wrote about this same kind of notebook in a 2014 post: Boorum and Pease Brown Taped Spine Notebook and included these photos of my own versions of these notebooks:

These seem to be the closest things currently available on Amazon:

If you’re willing to buy 144 notebooks at once for a good price, these are only sold by the case!

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