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Field Notes cofounders Aaron Draplin and Jim Coudal have convened to ostensibly talk about their cult-fave memo book brand. But Draplin—the gregarious, hilarious Portland proprietor of Draplin Design ...

Sometime in the later years of the previous decade, I entered a contest from a local company, Coudal Partners, and won. The contest was something like "what's the weirdest cover of a hip-hop song." My ...