Episode 9: Family Trees

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The most courageous is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

–Coco Chanel

All books, as usual, added to the podcast’s bookshelf on Goodreads.

Quoted:

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From the World’s Most Elegant Woman by Karen Karbo

To Kill a Mockingbird: novel and movie

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

The Great Gatsby: novel, movie (1974)–Robert Redford, Bruce Dern, and Mia Farrow and movie (2013)–Leonardo diCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan –both recommended by me

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Referenced:

Hairspray

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (novel by Fannie Flagg) and Fried Green Tomatoes (movie with the Kathy Bates! Yay!) and the splendiferous Fannie Flagg’s Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Indiana Jones

Audibled:

He’d Just Not That Into You: The No- Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (paperback at Bookshop.org)

It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (paperback at Bookshop.org)

It’s Just a Fucking Date by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (paperback at Bookshop.org)

Sex in the City

Greg’s comedy: Greg Behrendt is That Guy From That Thing and Greg Behrendt Is Uncool (mp3 album)

Dolloped:

Dollop entry about my mom’s attempt to sneak into a Ku Klux Klan rally, with links to Dollop episodes about the KKK

Grandpa Porter at the dollop

My great grandfather Cornelius Porter, held up with a Brady stand for what was supposed to be his premortem portrait

Clarence Darrow

My great-great-great grandfather Richard Franklin Pettigrew, Senator R. F. Pettigrew from South Dakota, reason behind the scandal of the “Pettigrew Indictment”

Pettigrew Home and Museum

congress.gov bio

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