Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 63: Can I eat that? Foraging!
Today, we attempt to answer the age-old question: “Can I eat this?”
The answer: “Um, maybe?”
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 05: Traysure!
S04E05: Metal detecting, geocaching, and digging up stuff in your own backyard!
It’s digging in the dirt and tromping through the woods season! Come along with us while Haley contemplates metal detecting, breaking the law, and digging up her basement, and Natali goes on a fantastic geocaching and letterboxing adventure (and also partakes in some light botanical thievery).
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 62: April Auction Oddities (in May)
Hello, Patrons! Welcome to April Auction Oddities (in May)!
This episode was supposed to come out in April, but, well *gestures at everything*
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 04: The Deadly Garden
S04E04: Poisonous Plants and Drury Lane Gardens.
Take a stroll around a garden so dangerous that just walking through it can cause you to faint, then scamper off to the world of London’s pocket parks for a wholesome reinvention of a place with a deadly past.
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 61: Cynthia, You’re My Moon Goddess
Aradia, Goddess of Witches and The Morrigan, Goddess of…Possibly Everything
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 03: Paws, Claws, and Caws: The Lore of Black Cats, Crows, and Ravens
The lore of black cats, crows, and ravens.
Us, to literally every black cat or corvid we see: Who’re our good little witches’ familiars? Sweet baby omens of doom? The bestest spooky speakers of truth ever?
Corvids and black cats:
Us: YES YOU ARE!!
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 60: February Auction Oddities
February Auction Oddities, starring creepy chocolate broccoli men and adult content pint glasses.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 02: Beauty and the Bikes
Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox.
Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J. Walker, who built a national beauty empire while providing a path for other Black women to build businesses of their own. Meanwhile, over in Boston, Kittie Knox was riding and racing her bicycle, charming reporters, and challenging the idea that the sport was solely the domain of white men.
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 59: Cocks and Codexes
The Vatican library and the Council of Trent.
In which we ponder the finer points of the Vatican’s vast pornography stash and look for a fabled storage room brimming with marble dicks.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 01: You Can Be the President, I’d Rather Be the Pope
Weird pope facts and the bizarro world that is Vatican City/the Vatican/the Holy See.
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 58: Jingle Hells
Welcome to Christmas in vintage holiday hell! We’ve got terrifying Santas, classic Christmas tree beehive hairdos, and photos that are anything but merry and bright.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 17: Indigenous Badassery
S03E17: It’s National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re talking about stone cold badass Madame Marie Dorion, and the many ways in which Native and Indigenous Americans have contributed to medicine and public health, from baby bottles, to pain killers, to early syringes!