{"id":37345,"date":"2020-11-26T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37345"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:19:28","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-james-folta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-james-folta\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 James Folta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Folta<\/strong>\u00a0is a humor writer and the managing editor of\u00a0Points in Case.<\/a>\u00a0He co-created two satirical projects:\u00a0The Neu Jorker<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Paul Ryan magazine<\/a>.\u00a0He co-writes a weekly newsletter,\u00a0A Newsletter of Humorous Writing<\/a>, tweets at\u00a0@jamesfolta<\/a>, and has a website,\u00a0jamesfolta.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance of Death Tote | The Met Store<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($35)<\/strong>
\nI have a lot of totes, but this one is sentimental: every month my two best friends and I spend a day exploring a part of New York City where we don\u2019t often go. I got this tote at The Cloisters in Washington Heights on one of these Boys Days last year, between a ramble through Fort Tryon and a snack of Liebman\u2019s hot dogs.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($22)<\/strong>
\nDespite my bad handwriting, I prefer to do my note-taking, brainstorming, planning, plotting, journaling, and first-drafting by hand. I use this little Kaweco fountain pen a lot \u2013 it writes well, and is light and portable enough to use every day. I found out recently though, that on Zoom calls it can easily be confused for a vape. Lesson learned: it\u2019s important to announce what is and isn\u2019t a vape when you log onto a call.<\/p>\n

Paperang Thermal Printer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($84)<\/strong>
\nI got this little printer a few years ago, and I love it. It\u2019s a thermal printer, like a cash register uses for receipts, so the quality and longevity of the prints are low, but with some sticker-backed paper, it\u2019s great for quickly putting little images, charts, and labels on things.<\/p>\n

Muji Schedule Notebook<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($10)<\/strong>
\nThis is \u201cThe Book\u201d \u2014 everything\u2019s in my little Muji planner. In quarantine, I\u2019ve taken to singing to myself, to the tune of \u201cHome\u201d by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: \u201cMy office is wherever I\u2019m with my book.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Buddha Machine by\u00a0<\/strong>FM3<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis little speaker is a music loop player by electronic musicians FM3. And it\u2019s the only thing in my bag that\u2019s been reviewed by Pitchfork and the New York Times. It\u2019s the perfect music to put on when I really need to get some writing done, and need to physically separate myself from my phone and computer.<\/p>\n

Oxford\u00ae 3\u201d x 5\u201d Unruled White Index Cards<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($3, 2pk)<\/strong>
\nAs far as tech is concerned, you can\u2019t beat the index card. Modular, portable, infinitely adaptable. I\u2019m convinced that any problem, regardless of size, can be solved with enough index cards. Plus stacking them up into card towers is a great way to procrastinate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37347,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions\/37347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}