Sunshine and Self Help month kicks off with a groovy guide to life by the endlessly cool Jennifur Brandt (aka Jennifer Brandt Taylor). Were you a weirdo, nostalgic teen who admired both Riot Grrl culture and classic cinema? Do you love collage, paper dolls, and pissing off the patriarchy? Read along with us as we talk novelty stores, fashion tips from 2000, and the eternal appeal of Weetzie Bat.

Jennifer Brandt Taylor's website: The Librarian (also on Twitter and Instagram)

Pesky Meddling Girl Instagram

 

Life is a Movie Starring You: Out of print! Check your beloved local used bookstore, or some of these shops who can ship copies to you: Strand Bookstore, Montclair Book Center. Of course, there are used copies on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the like!

Content Notes

Old Hollywood movies means Old Hollywood values! That means racism, sexism, and all sorts of -isms. Otherwise, a happy, kind, and supportive guide whose advice we endorse to this day!

Show Notes

Celebrating Chalica

"MAMA IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!" Sure is, #princessringding -time to cuddle up with a good book (or our latest episode-link in the profile!)

Foster Ring Ding loved this book! She found it delicious. Adopt her via Brooklyn FAT Cats!

Girl Power: Jennifur Brandt’s New Lifestyle Brand

‘Pesky Meddling Girls’: ’Zine touts pop culture

50 Things to Do in Baltimore

American Visionary Art Museum

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: Tah-Poozie

End Comes for Love Saves the Day

Toy Tokyo

 

Vintage L.A.: Eats, Boutiques, Decor, Landmarks, Markets & More by Jennifer Brandt Taylor

Listen to Friends of the Podcast on Secrets of Story and Fuse 8 n' Kate!

Bob Baker Marionette Theatre

True Grease: The unvarnished story behind my favorite girl gang, the Pink Ladies.

Through the Labyrinth, and What Sarah Found There

Wise Children by Angela Carter

My Life (And Nobody Else's): A Personal and Private Fill-In-The-Blanks Record Book

The Late Great Me by Sandra Scoppetone

12 Deadly Cyns...and then Some

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

How to Live Life with Fantastic Aliveness: Remembering Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Dewdrops in the Garden playlist

Qoya

The Year That Skin Care Became a Coping Mechanism

Rachel Wilkerson Miller/ The REWM - "How to Spend Christmas Alone"

Shout out BSCC and Baby Bees!

You should be listening to Carey's Music!

Jennifer Brandt Taylor's House Tour

A Girl Like I by Anita Loos

Readalikes

The Rookie Yearbooks by Tavi Gevinson and editors of Rookie

Queen of the Oddballs by Hillary Carlip

Current Reads

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Under Her Spell by Bridget Essex

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. (CC Marie Macula, Carey Farrell 2018)