Witches & Dicks Evelyn Archer & Lucy Neptune

EP 6: A HOT MINUTE [rec. July 29, 2022]
We close out the season under the cloud of the SCOTUS decision and well… well, everything. We dive into ways we’ve been nourishing and caring for ourselves, and LISTENER MAIL! We’ll be back in a few months with SEASON TWO, so stay tuned.

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Only Murders in the Building (Arconia)
Hestia
Thich Nhat Hanh
MLK. quote
Ted Lasso
Jean Ritchie
Desiree Stephens
Becky Chambers Wayfarers
Shady Hollow mysteries
Ghost Days
Diane Seuss
Wendell Berry
Rebecca Tamás
Leonora Carrington
#leftistprepper
Stardew Valley
The Kids in the Hall
Freya
Baba Yaga (see our Ep. 4!)
Florence and the Machine
Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Witches of Eastwick (Alexandria Medford)
Bewitched
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Baker St. Irregulars
Beverly Hills Cop (Axel Foley)
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
Murder She Wrote (Jessica Fletcher - see our Ep. 3!)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Kiki and Jiji)
Veronica Mars (Veronica, Wallace, and Mack)
Akata Witch (Sunny Nwazue)
Armand Gamache
Easy Rawlins
American Horror Story (Marie Laveau)
Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Sabrina, Salem)
Rowling's Harry Potter (Crookshanks and Hedwig)
Nancy Drew (Bess, George, Ned)
Harry Dresden (Bob)
Della Street
Bell, Book, and Candle
Quorn pr

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It’s MIYAZAKI TIME! Yubaba & Zeniba as two sides of Baba Yaga, Janus the two-faced God, doors and windows. Chihiro as Detective. Yubaba as Noir Crime boss.  Recorded Aug 19, 2021.
Card of the Week: The Lovers
Island Free Library
Little House on the Prairie
Spirited Away (Streaming on HBOMax)  Ghibli Spirited Away Fandom
Moulin Rouge
Maltese Falcon
Aristotelian Structure
Kishotenketsu
Ma
Carl Jung Quaternity
Howl’s Moving Castle
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
David Ogden Stiers
The Garden of Words
Witch of the Week: adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategies
Octavia Butler




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In which we discuss the great and powerful Slavic folklore crone, Baba Yaga, her house on chicken feet out in the woods, the mercurial ways in which you will learn about yourself if you go up to her house, and why she's life goals on Instagram. We also consider crone detectives, especially Gladys Mitchell's Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, and wee bit of climate panic. Recorded August 11, 2021.
 
Card of the Week: The Hermit
Witch of the week, Elka Shuman Bread & Puppet theater
Evelyn Archer: askevelynarcher.com @evelynarches on IG & Twitter
Lucy Neptune: @lucyneptunewnd on IG


Respite Road - Nancy’s indie film she was in and did costumes for The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie AndersonWomen and Other Monsters by Jess ZimmermanHairpinElectricLitMarissa Clifford article in ViceAsk Baba Yaga, Taisi KitiskyaThe Burning Girls & other stories, Veronica SchanoesDeathless, Catherynne M. ValenteHadestownMother Goose nursery rhymes cover (Marguerite de Angeli)Rosalie SorrelsLenormand cardsNPR childrearing Arctic circle articleToxic masculinity ruins the party once againMrs. Bradley MysteriesShow and BooksYubaba
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From our Baba Yaga Files: Jessica Fletcher
This week we do our first deep dive into our Lord and Savior Jessica Fletcher. Lucy & Evelyn talk shoulder pads and guest stars, the difference between “prestige” and “workhorse” TV and Jessica Fletcher as an iteration of The Crone. Recorded July 21, 2021.
Witch of the Week: Wally Funk
Evelyn Archer: askevelynarcher.com @evelynarches on IG & Twitter
Lucy Neptune: @lucyneptunewnd on IG
Stuff we mentioned:
Kevin James ThorntonRespite Road independent filmFringe (avail to stream on HBOMax w subscription)Days & Nights of Molly Dodd (some episodes avail on YouTube, check your library for DVDs)Forensic FilesMurder at the VicarageMurder, She Wrote stream for free on PeacockTVHooray for HomicideJessica Behind BarsCrossed UpSing a Song of MurderThe Murder of Sherlock HolmesMenace, Anyone?Magnum PI/ Murder She Wrote 2 part crossover:Magnum, P.I.: Novel ConnectionMurder, She Wrote: Magnum on IceSweeney Todd original castBaba YagaBaba Yaga and Vasalisa the Beautiful (Also known as “Vasalisa the Wise”)The Crone“Famous” by Naomi Shihab NyeIyashikei manga“Sweeps week”Schmigadoon! (streaming on AppleTV)PromBowen Yang’s “Iceberg that Sank the Titanic”Las CulturistasMadlyn RhueAmbigram
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In this episode: the Wash. Post detective bracket, who’s better - Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes, the fractal nature of Sherlock, why we have so many Holmeses and not as many Nancy Drews, a look at Barbara Neely's Blanche on the Lam, and lots and lots of book recs. Recorded Jul 14, 2021. 
Tarot card: Wheel of Fortune
Evelyn Archer: askevelynarcher.com @evelynarches on IG & Twitter Modesty Brown books on Amazon
Lucy Neptune: @lucyneptunewnd on IG
Everything (we think) mentioned this episode:
Washington Post bracket

From Conan Doyle Sherlock canon:
Scandal in Bohemia, Five Orange Pips, Adventure of the Yellow Face
Michael Chabon Books:
Yiddish Policeman's Union
The Final Solution
Sherlock Holmes Versions on screen:
Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jr & Jude Law, Elementary with Jonny Lee Miller & Lucy Liu, Sherlock (BBC) with Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman, House MD, Mr. Holmes (We *say* it’s based on Chabon’s Final Solution,  but it’s not. It’s based on A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullen)
Frogwares Sherlock Holmes games
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
Shadows Over Baker Street (Lovecraft/Holmes anthology by John Pelan & Michael Reaves)
Nancy Drew on screen:
Bonita Granville in Nancy Drew, Girl Reporter (1939), Emma Roberts Nancy Drew (2007), Hidden Staircase (2019), Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-79), CW Nancy Drew (2019- )
HerInteractive games including Curse of Blackmoor Manor
Retcon: short for “retroactive continuity”
Veronica Mars TV show & movie
Kelly Link’s "The Girl Detective" in  “Stranger Things Happen” 

Other Detectives from the Bracket:
Armand Gamache by Louise Penny 
PD James Adam Dalgleish novels. Also on Acorn TV
Coffin Ed Johnson & Grave Digger Jones from Chester Himes’ Harlem Detective series
Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries, Josephine Tey
Barbara Neely, Blanche White novels
Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves (CW: fatphobia)
Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler
Attica Locke and Darren Matthews, Texas Ranger novels
Isaiah Quintabe (IQ Novels) by Joe Ide
Henry Rios novels by Michael Nava
Agent Nina Guerrera novels by Isabella Maldonado
Tana French
Umbrella Academy TV show

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In the first full episode Evelyn and Lucy talk about the places where Witches (real, fictional, mythic & iconic) and Dicks (Private Eyes, Murder Mysteries, Detectives) overlap-- The Venn Diagram of where the Small “m” mystery of Hercule Poirot intersects with the Big “M” mystery of Witches & the supernatural. Recorded Jun 30 '21

Evelyn Archer: books and tarot readings:  askevelynarcher.com  @evelynarches on IG & Twitter
Lucy Neptune IG: @lucyneptunewnd
Card of the week: The Fool Card

Stuff we talked about:
STRANGE CREATURES by Phoebe North 
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (graphic novel) by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (novels), by Sarah Rees Brennan
Fringe TV show
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans and And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
CHINATOWN, (directed by rapist Roman Polanski) on Hulu Premium
BLANCHE ON THE LAM, by Barbara Neely
Theseus & the Minotaur
Clew
The Maltese Falcon on HBO Max
Wicked Witch of the West played by Margaret Hamilton, Wizard of Oz on HBO Max
 The Big Sleep, on many platforms
Three Pines/Insp Gamache by Louise Penny
Nick & Nora Charles, Hart to Hart, Agatha Christie Pair is Tommy and Tuppence
Hercule Poirot: the first cases (by Microids, on Steam)
Nancy Drew Games by Her Interactive
WITCH OF THE WEEK: SIMONE BILES  and RAVEN SAUNDERS  (She won Silver, here is her statement on her X Gesture

Bindlestiff Family Circus




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