There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

Carla Pettigrew
There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

Carla is: a bookdragon; a 50-something with psychology and counseling degrees with post-grad work in grief/loss/trauma, sex crimes, and forensic anthropology; a woman who has lived in three haunted houses; a former freelance journalist and counselor, who is never bored; a disabled introvert who sees connections everywhere--like John Nash, only less math-y; a knitting fidget who loves horror movies with a skewed passion. Like one of her heroes, Harriet the Spy, she wants to learn everything and write in all down in her commonplace book. Join her (and sometimes her friends) in her strange library as she INFJs everything from unused angles. It’s going to get weird in the best way. Let’s play. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

  1. Ten: Trekking Stubborn: 91

    AUG 17

    Ten: Trekking Stubborn: 91

    In which Carla looks back over ten years of disability. plus: From the Pantry, originally episode 12, to honor what is missed: Driving, Dancing, and Pizza Hut  Loop earplugs: loopearplugs.com will redirect you to your local site Recommended and referenced reading: Bob Ford: official website: http://robertfordauthor.com, YouTube: Youtube Channel, Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/258046.Robert_Ford The God Beneath My Garden, short fiction: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781500437480 Burner, intense novel, not for casual horror fans, many trigger warnings abound: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Demons-Novellas-Robert-Ford-ebook/dp/B07YDY5LYQ/ The Dead Pennies, novel (my favorite): https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781587679155 Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780061558894  How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.  Where to Find Cupcakes: Substack: http:/theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

    1h 29m
  2. From the Pantry: Eclipse: 90

    MAY 5

    From the Pantry: Eclipse: 90

    Talking about where I have been, plus: From the Pantry, originally episode 19, to honor the recent eclipse: In which Carla starts with Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game--Stephen King's planned In the Path of the Eclipse series—and explores folktales used to explain solar eclipses. It gets weird.  Recommended and referenced reading: Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781501143809 Gerald's Game by Stephen King  https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781501144202 Scarecrow Gods by Weston Ochse  https://www.amazon.com/Scarecrow-Gods-Weston-Ochse/dp/1929653956/ Seal Team 666 by Weston Ochse hardcover at Bookshop:  https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781250007353 / ebook at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/SEAL-Team-666-Weston-Ochse-ebook/dp/B0085UCZLE/ Dante’s The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso—my recommended translation is by Robin Kirkpatrick, a leading expert on Dante. The meticulous notes are superb. This is the version translated by Kirkpatrick and illustrated by Eric Drooker: bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143107194  Hozier, “Unreal Unearth”: https://open.spotify.com/album/3gF9KIynrJaC80HbVayPMx https://music.apple.com/us/album/unreal-unearth/1687585357 How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.  Where to Find Cupcakes: Substack: http:/theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group Contact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

    46 min
  3. Victorian Christmas: A Peculiar Atmosphere of Cranky Scholarship: 89

    JAN 1

    Victorian Christmas: A Peculiar Atmosphere of Cranky Scholarship: 89

    In which Carla celebrates the Twelve Days of Christmas by connecting M. R. James to Ash’s chainsaw. M. R. James adaptations listed at Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/jwlZ Adaptations of this story: 1956: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-whistle-and-ill-come-to-you-1956-online only for those in the UK, or those using a VPN (BFI’s words, not mine) 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGfEk0cnL4 2010: https://tubitv.com/movies/571582/m-r-james-whistle-and-i-ll-come-to-you Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Stories of M. R. James, Volume 1: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143039396 The Haunted Doll’s House and The Complete Stories of M. R. James, Volume 2: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143039921 The Complete Stories of M. R. James, ebook https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Ghost-Stories-M-James-ebook/dp/B07KFKKL48/ Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Scotland's National Poet - the Bard of Ayrshire https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781387972753 Rosemary Pardoe http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/FAQ.html Paranormal State: My Journey Into the Unknown by Ryan Buell and Stefan Petrucha https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780061767944 The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781015877269 Referenced episodes: 4: …And Things That Go Bump in the Night https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcas-520320/episodes/remastered-4and-things-that-go-25992370 32: What the Dickens (included at the end of the episode) https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcas-520320/episodes/what-the-dickens-32-24259323 67: Haunted Yule: Twelve Days https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcas-520320/episodes/haunted-yule-twelve-days-67-82798501 There Might Be Cupcakes on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/episodes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/ How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes. Where to Find Cupcakes: Substack: http:a href="http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com"...

    1h 36m
  4. 04/28/2023

    Library Pirates (with Princess Jones Curtis): 88

    Happy anniversary to all of us! Thank you for six years of cupcakes; you are the cupcakes I find on difficult days. I hope I have given you some. Show notes: In which Carla and Princess Jones Curtis from the Bye, Pumkin Podcast talk about being mysteriously early readers, the effect V. C. Andrews had on (mostly) the women of their generation, Paperbacks From Hell, Stephen King, how Carla’s earliest reading habits explain a lot, and how Judy Blume is still, well, perfect. Sources: All of the books discussed will be listed in the Substack, Patreon, and on the website after I catalog them all. Here’s Paperbacks From Hell by Carla’s buddy, Grady Hendrix. https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781594749810 Grady, if you know which Zebra book (it had to be Zebra) was about the evil child named Lucien, let me know. I have to reread it. To join a FrizzLit book club/class: https://www.frizzlit.com/bookclubs Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin class: starts June 6th, 2023 https://btt.boldtypetickets.com/events/132496771/quarantine-book-club-giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin Bye, Pumkin Podcast: https://www.audible.com/pd/Bye-Pumkin-Podcast/B08K565345 There Might Be Cupcakes on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/episodes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/ How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes. Where to Find Cupcakes: Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes * r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group Contact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.com Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

    1h 18m
  5. To the Lighthouse to Catch a Fish: 87

    04/25/2023

    To the Lighthouse to Catch a Fish: 87

    Show notes: In which Carla tells the fairy tale within Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Sources: “The Fisherman and His Wife”, from Grimm, Wilhelm; Grimm, Jacob. The Complete Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9789176374559 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780156907392 To join a FrizzLit book club/class: https://www.frizzlit.com/bookclubs “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781400041879 Referenced: The Blind Side https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/blind-side There Might Be Cupcakes on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/episodes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/ How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes. Where to Find Cupcakes: Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes * r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group Contact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.com Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

    24 min
  6. The Children Are Not Alright: 86

    03/11/2023

    The Children Are Not Alright: 86

    Show notes: In which Carla updates the story of episode 21, Nine Days and Two Car Seats, which tells the story of the murder of Michael and Alex Smith, and updates what their murderer, her mother, Susan Smith, has been up to in the time since the murder. Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission Sources: Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith by David Smith https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e7899e42-32db-4811-b91c-b3fd14ae703d Sins of the Mother by Maria Eftimiades https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2135b4b0-7533-416e-b7d2-079570c17e1e DSM-V: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, Fifth Ed. by the American Psychiatric Association https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780890425763 documentaries: Murder Made Me Famous: Susan Smith: What Happened?; Murder Made Me Famous: Susan Smith: Sex Behind Bars; Cellmate Secrets. Alfred Rowe’s sex offender registry: http://bit.ly/421v6eY Violated statute: https://scor.sled.sc.gov/OffenseCode.aspx?id=1279 There Might Be Cupcakes on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/episodes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/ Referenced Episodes: 21: Nine Days and Two Car Seats How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes. Where to Find Cupcakes: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group Contact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.com Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

    1h 16m
  7. 12/07/2022

    Victorian Christmas: Fingering Death: 85

    In which Carla shares lots of good news, and reads more Victorian horror for the holidays. Sources and Recommended Reading: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (pp. 117-123) https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781943910564 Ada Buisson on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18335715.Ada_Buisson Belgravia catalog archive: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000680041 There Might Be Cupcakes on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/episodes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22815734/ Referenced Episodes: 4: …And Things That Go Bump in the Night 21: Nine Days and Two Car Seats 35: Unexpected UVA Voices 47: The Goblin and the Paw 75: Holly Jolly Christmas How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes. Where to Find Cupcakes: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Twitter: @mightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group Contact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.com Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

    30 min
  8. The Little Mermaid: 84

    09/23/2022

    The Little Mermaid: 84

    In which Carla explores the kerfuffle behind The Little Mermaid. Original story by Hans Christian Andersen begins at 19:22 Recommended Reading: Haunted Waters by Mary Pope Osborne https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780763629953 Disney: The Little Mermaid: The Film Script https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781645171522 The Little Mermaid: The Classic Edition https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781604333770 The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales, the (Illustrated with Interactive Elements) https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780062692597 The Little Mermaid movie https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0786936860764 https://letterboxd.com/actor/halle-bailey/ https://letterboxd.com/film/the-little-mermaid-2023/ https://letterboxd.com/film/the-little-mermaid/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/phallus-purposely-added-artwork-little-mermaid-vhs-cover/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-aroused-minister/ https://letterboxd.com/film/the-princess-and-the-frog/ https://letterboxd.com/film/pocahontas/ Iliza: The unrealistic idea of being a mermaid: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UJ4xit7_ybc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mythological_human_hybrids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undine_(novella) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Children%27s_Book_Day   How to Support Cupcakes: Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremightbecupcakes and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes. Where to Find Cupcakes: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes Twitter: @mightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakes Goodreads: a...

    1h 6m
4.8
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About

Carla is: a bookdragon; a 50-something with psychology and counseling degrees with post-grad work in grief/loss/trauma, sex crimes, and forensic anthropology; a woman who has lived in three haunted houses; a former freelance journalist and counselor, who is never bored; a disabled introvert who sees connections everywhere--like John Nash, only less math-y; a knitting fidget who loves horror movies with a skewed passion. Like one of her heroes, Harriet the Spy, she wants to learn everything and write in all down in her commonplace book. Join her (and sometimes her friends) in her strange library as she INFJs everything from unused angles. It’s going to get weird in the best way. Let’s play. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.

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