Fighting Over the Card Catalog

This week we discuss BSC 17 Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery. We get a HARDCORE Fashion Alert, Steven's a snitch, and apparently, Jess is a terrible person to watch movies with. Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

This week we pay homage to the wonderful Beverly Cleary with Ramona and Her Father. We discuss how relatable the Quimbys are, childhood anxiety, and just...so much smoking! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Time to introduce Steven to the American Girls series!! And we dare to ask the question...should Jiggy Nye just have smoked the devil's lettuce? Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Hormones! Mental health! Both Anastasia's and ours! Plus bonus exploding gerbils! Or maybe they're ghosts! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

We're back? We're back! And we're back with Jessi's very first book, with shitty parents and bullshit ballet for Jess to get mad about! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

We jump into the pageant circuit this week in BSC 15 Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn by Ann M. Martin. It's a good book, but Steven needs to re-write it with his own Great Idea. We also discuss Jess's BRIEF pageant moment, Steven's worst injury, and check in with Ann to make sure she's doing ok during the pandemic. Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Happy World Theatre Day! We're celebrating this week with the seminal classic Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild. Are the Fossil girls precursors to the Royal Tenenbaums? And there HAS to be some shady shit going on with Gum, right? Plus, our pandemic update, trying to find some good in it, #firstworldsuburbanproblems and Jess gets down with the kids on TikTok Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Obviously we start this week with our pandemic update. But no worries! Miracles fix all illness! At least that's what we learn this week in Angels Watching Over Me by Lurlene McDaniel. Plus sexy buggy rides! Very questionable Bible memories! And, as always, more reasons to become a teenage hypochondriac! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Happy St. Patrick's Day! No shenanigans here this week, we've got economic hardships and rampant sickness. Is it a modern novel?? No, we're back in 1845 Ireland, by way of 1990's Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna. It's a wild journey through the Irish countryside during the famine, with the poor O'Driscoll kids. It'll make you want to drown their sorrows in a Guinness, that's for sure. But it's not all doom and gloom! Jess and Steven recount their trip to the North Texas Teen Book Festival, where Jess fan-girled HARD over some big Baby-Sitters Club connections! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

What's the difference between creeping and crawling? Nobody knows! Especially not Mallory, our sweet baby nerd, and newest member of the BSC cult! We also meet the prodigy ballerina herself, Jessi, whose very existence exposes the racism in our seemingly perfect Stoneybrook. Plus K!I!D!S! Looks like we made it! It's Kids Incorporated! (For serious, if anyone is interested in doing a Kids Inc pod, about the show, not the copy-cat club, hit me up!) And wash ya damn hands! But Don't Panic! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Welcome to Junior High you bingo brains! This week we jump into the Girl Talk series by L.E. Blair. We get oodles of Fashion Alerts, are introduced to the titular girl talk telephone chapters, learn about Jess's love of rules and fear of Guns N Roses. And is this the episode where Steven actually does reconsider this whole marriage? No Snark Zone link: http://bit.ly/FotCCHelpWetNation Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Is this whole episode a No Snark Zone? Because it is just full of love for Anastasia and her entire Awesome Family, in Anastasia at Your Service by Lois Lowry. We've got obscene dog posters, Jess's OTP, and Henry James back from the dead? And a bit thirsty? Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! And what better way to celebrate the day dedicated to love than with numerous murders! Sit down with a box of chocolates while we discuss R.L. Stine's Fear Street Super Chiller, Broken Hearts. So many creepy angry boys, and so many times Jess laughs at teenage deaths. Plus what is possibly the best Fear Street murder of them all. Though this all could have been avoided if ANYONE had read The Saddle Club. But nobody ever listens to Carole, do they? Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

We say cya to the BSC's most popular sitter this week in Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye by Ann M. Martin. We talk moving, yard sales, more Jenny hate, & set one of the worst precedents in Stoneybrook. We get another chapter of Ann's fascinating biography, where we have a funeral for flowers. Plus more bitching about US politics! No Snark Zone: FairFight.com Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This week we begin a new series, Pen Pals! Boys Wanted! Steven loves it! We get a whole new group of gals, and this time bringing back the art of letter writing, purely to flirt with boys. We talk about first dates, sexist extracurriculars, and the 80's version of catfishing. Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Let's traumatize a whole lot of people this week with the sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton, Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney, shall we? It's just...this whole situation is SO MESSED UP, Y'ALL Plus we wonder: were Swatch watches the Pokemon of accessories? And were you looking for a quick civics lesson? We've got you covered! No Snark Zone: Vote411 impeachment.fyi Call your senators! (202) 224-3121 Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This week we read the Judy Blume classic Deenie! We talk about "lucky" rabbit feet, school start times, and we get the hottest autoimmune disease news with Psoriasis Minute! And, as she loves to do, Judy gives us just so many opportunities to talk about masturbation. Bless. Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Commercial break Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

We're back from break with Steven's 1st Baby-Sitter's Club Super Special! He...was...psyched. We also have some new segments, discuss our reading goals for this year and last, as well as being disabled at Harry Potter World. And of course we go along with the BSC on a cruise and to Disney World, complete with SO. MUCH. STALKING. No Snark Zone: How to help Australia: https://lnk.bio/fightthebushfires How to help Puerto Rico: hispanicfederation.org Check your U.S. voter status: vote.org Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com Music from https://filmmusic.io "Itty Bitty 8 Bit" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

YOU. ARE. A. CRUMB. And that's how you insult a traitorous teenage girl, I guess. This week we REALLY start getting into the cult-like mentality of the Baby-Sitters Club, in Claudia and the New Girl. How DARE Claudia give more attention to ANYTHING ELSE other than baby-sitting! Ugh! And though the new girl is very focused herself, she may have also been ahead of her time fashion wise. Oh yeah, SO! MANY! FASHION ALERTS! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday to Steven! Happy annoyingly stilted dialogue book day! This week we read the Dare Boys of 1776 by S.A.D. Cox. And it's a lot. Lots of dick jokes! Lots of strangling! Lots of Brits running away! Lots of Hamilton references! Thanks for listening! FacebookInstagramTumblrYouTubePinterestCardCatalogPodjessdigressEmail us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com