Claire Donald
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Why is it called The White Album?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Like The Beatles?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Yes, because if you remember from our Manson murders episode, he calls it Helter Skelter.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
That's right.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
The Prophecy, and that's from The White Album.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
She also comments just like about, well, Los Angeles in the 60s, but what was going on culturally.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
She also writes an essay titled Girl of the Golden West, which was an analyst of Patty Hearst.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Another goddamn Ram episode.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Joan is so Ram-coded.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
She is like mama.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
She is mama.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
She is our maybe Ram mother looking over us, isn't she?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Wow.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Like out of everyone kind of.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Maybe that's why we feel so connected.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Perhaps.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Wow.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Wow.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Yeah.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
So she writes the – or she published the White Album.