Maraschino cherries & half orange slice for garnish
*Tanya prefers measuring with her heart
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Rebecca: Decaf Green Tea
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Kelly: Trader Joe’s Simpler Wines Peach flavor
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Jamie: Elysian Brewing Space Dust IPA
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Recommendations:
Tanya: Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/3MQ27Cb); Pachinko: A Novel by Min Jin Lee (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/38OekIQ)–now a show on Apple TV+; Dark (a German show on Netflix); Inventing Anna (also on Netflix)
Image from Simon & Schuster websiteImage from Min Jin Lee’s websiteImage from WikipediaImage from IMDB
Rebecca: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/3vDQngw); How to be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye C. Cleary (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/3vY2KmB); A Novel Obsession: A Novel by Caitlin Barasch (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/3OSDPte); & Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book by Courtney Maum (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/3kyvQDR)
Image from FamilyWithBooks blogImage from Macmillan Publisher’s websiteImage from Penguin Random House websiteImage from Bookshop.org
Kelly: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: A Novel by Eva Jurczyk (Find it at this link: https://bit.ly/3MKDPcW)
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Jamie: Poirot Investigates: A Hercule Poirot Collection by Agatha Christie (Find the free eBook version at this link: https://bit.ly/3FewfF6. But also check out the audiobook version, narrated by Richard Armitage on Audible at this link: https://adbl.co/3KGnp3T or David Suchet on Audible at this link: https://adbl.co/3LVwWpn); Our Flag Means Death (HBO max); the subreddit r/HollisUncensored
Image from The Lesser Joke blogImage from Reddit: r/HollisUncensoredImage from IMDB
Disclaimer: No one said we were original when it comes to being an American on St. Patrick’s Day. Also, our views on the quality of The Boondock Saints film is thus:
If you are a fan of the film, we may or may not contest the film’s status as a so-called “cult classic,” and may or may not agree that yes, it is about as quotable as Pulp Fiction or Ghostbusters. Also, that cast?! I mean, Willem Dafoe, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly?
If you are not a fan of the film, we may or may not find the following descriptions to be fair assessments:
“A juvenile, ugly movie that represents the worst tendencies of directors channeling Tarantino.”–Rotten Tomatoes consensus
“The Boondock Saints has ended up a cheap looking B-movie that’s pretentious, derivative, and sorely lacking a sense of fun.”–Miles Fielder (Rotten Tomatoes)
“An embarrassing waste of time, and nothing even resembling the guiltiest of guilty pleasures…”–Felix Vasquez Jr. (Rotten Tomatoes)
“If I was stuck on a desert island with only this movie and nothing else to do, I would go drown myself!”–Fitznew (IMDB)
Brian: Guinness
Photo by Matt Detrich for the IndyStar digital newspaper
Kelly: An Italian wine called Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
Image from Reverse Wine Snob website
Jamie: ….also Guinness
Photo from Guinness for The Orange County Register digital newspaper
Recommendations:
Brian: Giolitti for gelato (Rome); All’Antico Vinaio for sandwiches (Florence)
Image by Emilio Lorenzo Fortunati
Photo by Lukáš Buňát
Kelly: Mr. Mayor (Hulu); Go visit some museums or theaters, etc. before the next COVID variant hits!
Kelly: Athletic Brewing Company craft non-alcoholic Upside Dawn golden beer
Image from Athletic Brewing Company website
Jamie: Guinness pint & a Jameson-Ginger Ale (Irish Buck)
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Recommendations:
Rob: a movie called Profile on Netflix
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Abbey: a streaming show called Only Murders in the Building on Hulu
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Kelly: The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution by Lindsay M. Chervinsky (find it here: https://bit.ly/3o3q4fz); the Ida B. Wells Barbie (find it here: https://bit.ly/3r63Xa5)
Image from Lindsay Chervinsky’s website
Image from the Barbie Inspiring Women website
Jamie: a streaming show called Queer Eye (especially season 6) on Netflix; the Queer Eye Fab 5 Loft LEGO set (find it here: https://bit.ly/3rXOzfm)
Michael’s Drink: Florida Avenue Brewing Passion of the Heights
Photo from Florida Avenue Brewing Website
Kelly’s Drink: FRE Chardonnay
Image from FRE Wines website
Jamie’s Drink: Bombay Sapphire gin & Fever Tree tonic
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Recommendations!
Michael’s:
Jeffrey Olster’s Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (find it here: https://bit.ly/3zQRQk5)
Kelly’s:
Wordle; Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (find it here: https://bit.ly/3ng53hl)
Jamie’s:
LEGO Typewriter (temporarily out-of-stock: https://bit.ly/3qjl2Nx); Any version of Trivial Pursuit
Conor: Norman Maclean’s book Young Men and Fire (which you can find at this link: https://bit.ly/3ssi3nt)
Kelly: Get your Covid boosters; enjoy some Song Hill Wine (find it here: https://songhillwinery.com); and Rebecca Hall’s book Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (which you can find at this link: https://bit.ly/3pmP3LX). Be sure to check out Kelly’s other podcast Unsung History for an upcoming episode with Dr. Hall!
Jamie: An essay collection edited by Lynne Van Luven called Nobody’s Mother: A Life Without Kids (which you can find at this link: https://bit.ly/3qih8Du)
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Southside Cocktail, to represent the area in which Kelly lives
Ingredients:
2 ounces gin
1 ounce lime juice
3/4 ounce simple syrup
1 sprig mint
1 fresh mint leaf
Image taken from Kraken Rum’s website
Doc Oc (aka Release the Kraken), because Jamie was lazy
Ingredients:
however many ounces of Kraken rum your day calls for
as much Dr. Pepper as will fit in the glass that’s already filled with rum
Recommendations
Paul: Courtney’s book An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in 19th Century America, which you can find by clicking this link: https://bit.ly/3p1YuQK and the 1974 Grateful Dead Summer Tour. Find Paul on Twitter where you can learn more about the history of FEW Spirits and their products: @fewspirits.
Courtney: the French 75, animal adoption (adopt, don’t shop), Taylor Swift’s Evermore and Folklore albums, and Trader Joe’s dark chocolate peanut butter cups (which are truly to die for). Find Courtney on Twitter and follow here immediately. It’ll be the best decision of your day: @Dr_C_Thompson.
Kelly: Heather Cox Richardson’s books To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (which you can find by clicking this link: https://bit.ly/3q9vlT5) and How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (which can be find via this link: https://bit.ly/3yADALN). You can find Heather Cox Richardson on Twitter for top notch historical and political contend: @HC_Richardson.
Jamie: Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry’s brand spankin’ new release The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (which you can snag by clicking this link: https://bit.ly/3e2pc5t). You can find the two of them on Twitter. Follow them. You won’t be disappointed: Matt (@prof_gabriele) and David (@lollardfish).
And, as always, you can find the show on Twitter (@UncorkedHistory), as well as Kelly (@FeministKelly) and Jamie (@L_Historienne)!
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