Episode 24 – May 7th, 2007.
“Mother’s Day”
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Episode 23 – April 24th, 2007. “Clip Show III”
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This final clip show focuses on Fleming’s Follies inlcuding clips from the Presidents, Ireland and Shopping episodes amongst others plus a little insight into the evolution of follies.
Episode 22 – April 18th, 2007. “Clip Show II”
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This week’s clip show highlights the evolution of everse from newsletter to web to podcast to videocast. Features episodes from Shopping, Ireland and Presidents. Ernest discusses his relationship with W.H Auden
Episode 21 – April 12th, 2007. “Clip Show I”
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During a brief hiatus, the guys of everse discuss some of the origins of the newsletter and show highlights from some earlier episodes of E-Verse Radio and video. In this first clip show, we look at Top 5 lists, quotes and poems and hear about the launch of the everse newsletter.
Episode 20 – April 2nd, 2007. “Trees”
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John Ruskin and William Blake on trees, “Trees” by Philip Larkin, Woody Allen on how hard it is the get the bark on, top five movies with killer trees, How Harry Became a Tree (2001) and other Unbelievable But Real Film Titles, Willa Cather, Ogden Nash, cool robot party pictures, facts about trees, the tallest, the oldest, names of trees, giant treehouses, lots of fun trees videos in Fleming’s Follies, the Tree of Life, News You Can Use from the Un-E-Verse-ity of Life, renting giant treehouses for your next vacation, poison trees, bad book cover of the week, Reports from the E-Verse Universe, and so much more it will wow you right out of your tree!
Episode 19 – March 26th, 2007. “Astrology”
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This week’s episode includes: Kurt Vonnegut and D.H. Lawrence on flirting with the zodiac, “This is the excellent foppery of the world,” Edmund’s soliliquy from King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2, a reader sends in “12 succinct descriptors for different astrological signs,” Hippocrates on astrology and medicine, Zodiac America: The Super Master, released in the US as Zombie vs. Ninja (1987), Funny Zodiac E-Cards at Hipstercards.com, Fleming’s Follies, E-Verse Radio Invaluable Facts of the Week, courtesy of AstrologyAlive.com, Zodiac, TX, and so much more fun your head will spin and come right off!
Episode 18 – March 19th, 2007. “Ireland”
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Freud on the Irish, Yeats’s “Byzantium,” Top Five Irish Exports, unbelievable but real films, including Irish American Ninja (2005), Justin Quinn’s “Even Song,” Irish facts of the week, News from the Un-Evers-ety of Life, E-Verse Follies, featuring Father Ted and Family Guy, Irish cricket and rugby action, Random Beer Name Generator, “The Emigrant Irish” by Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney’s Nobel acceptance speech, E-Verse Radio Bad Book Cover of the Week, Fatally Yours by Xaviera Hollander, Irish Towns You Really Have to Visit, a film of Seamus Heaney reading “Digging,” quotes from James Joyce Ulysses, the Irish Pub in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, readers write in with more telephone songs, and so much more St. Patrick’s Day fun.
Episode 17 – March 12th, 2007. “Wonders of the World”
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Napoleon and Abraham Joshua Heschel on pyramids and wonder, Shelley’s Ozymandias, Top Five Wonders of the Ancient World, some Modern Wonders, some Natural Wonders, some Undersea Wonders, Unbelievable Film Titles of the Week, including He’s a Cockeyed Wonder (1950), Invaluable Ancient Wonders Facts of the Week, readers send in “other” wonders, vote for the new seven wonders of the world, Bad Book Cover of the Week (War of the Worlds), the ghost-town Wonder, Nevada, Fleming’s Follies, Seven Wonders of the US Road Trip, readers write in with more on telephones, and so much more fun your head might explode!
Episode 16 – February 26th, 2007. “Telephone”
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This week’s episode includes: Mark Twain and Fran Lebowitz on the ups and downs of the telephone, Allen Ginsberg’s “I Am a Victim of Telephone,” Top Five Telephone Songs, The Phone Ranger (2005) and other telephone film titles, Top Five Phones in Poetry, Invaluable Telephone Facts of the Week, Ogden Nash on wrong numbers, Fleming’s Follies, featuring the iPhone sendups from Conan O’ Brien and Mad TV, Bad Book Cover of the Week, viewer mail from the last week, and so much more you’ll want to turn your phone off and tune in! 30mins.
Episode 15 – February 19th, 2007. “Presidents”
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This week’s episode includes: George Washington on the highest bidder, Honest Abe on fooling some of the people some of the time, Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Woodrow Wilson on making enemies, top five presidential movies, how Hollywood imagines the US presidents, left-handed presidents, presidential facial hair, Linda Lovelace for President, top ten cartoon eye-popping reactions to Olive Oyl, amazing presidential facts, Fleming’s Follies, smoking presidents, Bad Book Cover of the Week, Slime, Jefferson City, Missouri, top five mysteries popular in the 1970s, top five famous germophobes, presidential collective nouns, cool presidential campaign slogans, top five presidents with the largest popular votes and top five with greatest electoral votes, and so much more, you just have to listen! Audio 50 mins, Video 30 mins.
Episode 14 – February 12th, 2007. “Bad Habits” 11. Click To Play
This week’s episode includes: Somerset Maugham and Confucius, Thom Gunn’s “Sweet Things,” top five habits of highly ineffective coworkers, Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human and Sister Act II: Back, John Dryden, endlessbookshelf.net, Fleming’s Follies, featuring Eye Smoking Guy, Guinness Book of World Records guy who smokes seven packs at once, monkey scratching its ass, invaluable bad habit facts of the week, Mark Twain on habits, Bad Book Cover of the Week, Night of the Living Hell, book plots that hinge on the acquisition or loss of funds, an Australian in a funky Bedford nearly runs over a koala, Hooker, Okalahoma, top five superstitions, Ernest Hilbert’s poem “In Bed for a Week” from the New Criterion, reprint of Hilbert’s In Memoriam for Thom Gunn from the December 2004 issue of the Contemporary Poetry Review, and much more fun stuff. Check it out!
Episode 13 – February 5th, 2007. “Aristocracy”
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This week’s episode includes: Alexis de Tocqueville on vice, Nancy Mitford on headless chickens, Keith Douglas’s “Aristocrats,” top five royal deaths in the 20th century, King Kong Lives, Chesterton on the badly educated, Homer Simpson and the Queen, Charles in Charge, Catherine Tate at the Queen’s birthday bash, invaluable and sometimes unbelievable facts about the British royals, unbelievable book cover of the week (Unanswered Prayers), Cut-Off Louisiana, Thomas Jefferson on natural aristocracy, and so much more fun.
Episode 12 – January 29th, 2007. “Australia”
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This week’s episode includes: Steve Smith’s “Liquid Knowledge,” Phyllis McGinley on not reading poetry, top five wonderful creatures from Australia, top five Australian movies, Robert Hughes’s Fatal Shore, facts and figures about Australia Day, The Saucy Aussie (1963), Blunder Down Under (1963), On Top Down Under (2000), a identification chart of men’s facial hair types, Banjo Patterson, people born on the unlucky day January 2nd, Jacket magazine, El Caminos in the Outback, Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines, chocolate marsupials, Kath and Kim, invaluable facts about Australia, Fleming’s Follies, featuring the famous cannonball beer ad, the Simpsons go to Australia, Dorothea Mackellar’s “My Country,” Russell Crowe thanks Christ for Australia, fun Australian town names, Richard Dawkins’s Memes, Australian collective nouns, Jindyworobaks, and so much more fun.
Episode 11 – January 15th, 2007. “New Year”
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This week’s episode includes: Mark Twain and G.K. Chesterton on New Year’s Day, “New Year Letter” by W.H. Auden, top five New Year’s traditions, the movie Bloody New Year, fun New Year’s facts, fun videos of U2, spiders on drugs, and scenes from around the world on Fleming’s Follies, hip hop guide to poetic feet, the world’s smallest country up for sale, the coolest and weirdest jobs, top five writers who practiced medicine, and so much more fun to ring in the new year.
Episode 10 – December 20th, 2006. “Christmas”
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This week’s episode includes: “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Top Five Christmas Movies, funny sledding crashes, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Cool Christmas Facts, fun Christmas videos made with Star Wars figures, recipe for Orange Eggnog Punch, opening Star Wars presents in the 1970s, Fleming’s Follies, including the top viral videos for 2006 and a look at the mashup video of Scrubs and Charlie Brown’s Christmas, Stephen Millhauser’s Martin Dressler and the rise of luxury lifestyles, Top Five Things You Should Know About Chanukah, a Very Lovecraft Christmas, recipe for Peanut Brittle, Heat Miser’s MySpace page, recipe for Mulled Wine, a Sleigh of Santas, and so much more holiday fun.
Episode 9 – December 11th, 2006. “Shopping”
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This week’s episode includes: Erasmus on buying books, shopping as therapy, Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” top five celebrity quotes about shopping, funny shopping movies, Robert Pinsky’s “To Television,” Rodney Jones’s “TV,” the origins of the squeaky shopping cart, NEW FEATURE E-Verse unfortunate book cover of the week (James Beard poses with a pile of sausage), Jennifer Fleming’s best-selling cleaning books, more robot sex movies, shopping mall facts, scary Mary Poppins, donate money to My Two Front Teeth and Soldiers’ Angels, Fleming’s Follies with funny Home Shopping bloopers and spills, Commerce City, Colorado, make money as a Mystery Shopper, more movies in which dolls come to life, books about shopping, and so much more banter, bull, and ballyhoo!
Episode 8 – December 3rd, 2006. “Television”
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This week’s episode includes: Why we love TV, why we hate TV, Mike Teavee’s song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the origin of TV dinners, TV dolls that come to life, Murder by Television, romantic tension in television shows, TV shows in which a person goes to bed with a robot, top five sci-fi TV and movie quotes, Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman visit Frank O’Hara’s grave, top five internet TV shows, tons of TV facts, TV Land’s top 100 television catchphrases, Hilbert’s poem “Reality TV,” more writers and close brushes with death, some writers who didn’t make it, and so much more in the Television episode of E-Verse Radio!
Episode 7 – November 27th, 2006. “London Calling”
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This week’s episode includes: Blake’s London, top five London Underground Stations, more bad date movies, the submarine “Alvin” looking for a lost H-Bomb at the bottom of the ocean, cool Londonsouvenirs , more writers have close brushes with death, cool Beatles and Iceberg facts about London, recipes for the top five English foods, writers who made the Atlantic Monthly’s Top 100 Most Influential Americans list, top five English beers, swimming in the Dead Sea, Amy Lowell’s London poem, the history of Elephant and Castle, and so much more in the London Calling episode of E-Verse Radio!
Episode 6 – November 20th, 2006. “Seven Seas”
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This week’s episode includes: “Call me Ishmael,” Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” top five submarines, an E-Verser crosses the Atlantic and Pacific (as far as Hawaii) in a peddle boat, best surfing beaches, more on bookstore cats, top five people who died doing what they loved, famous dictator home decorating, more literary mice, top five sea monsters, “Ships of the Sea” museum in Savannah, collective nouns for poets (a “pint” of poets!), Pier 39 Sea Lion Cam, dolphins as “smartasses of the sea,” cool ocean facts, Homer Simpson’s “Under the Sea” ditty, the Ocean Conservancy, dolphin games, Sigmund the Sea Monster, Tennyson’s “The Kraken,” Auden as the only man ever issued with a “poetic license to kill,” beach bumming the world over, and all the usual thrills and spills of E-Verse Radio, beamed right to you for your delectation.
Episode 5 – November 13th, 2006. “Home”
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This week’s episode includes: Lincoln’s “house divided” speech, Bukowski at home with his dad, Philip Larkin’s “Home is So Sad,” backyard wrestling, world’s top beer consuming countries, literary mice, the ever-growing American house, Monticello, Falling Water, Auden’s “Geography of the House,” Sherrill Tippins’s February House, bookstore cats vs. record store cats, Hemingway’s house and cats, the Hallaton Hare Pie Festival in Leicestershire, more on Camus, parties in downtown New York, and all the usual thrills and spills of E-Verse Radio, beamed right to you for your delectation.
Episode 4 – November 6th, 2006
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Seven Deadly Sins. This weeks episode includes: X.J Kennedy’s Seven Deadly Virtues, Seven Sins of Internet Use, Delaware County Literacy Council, Here Lies a Lady by John Crowe Ransom, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Stanley, Sci-fi roasts, Pop Matters column, Politico’s and their sexy prose, Superman is a dick plus the usual entertaining fare. Special guest is Michael Poteet. Beware the curse of the microphone malfunction.
Episode 3 – October 30th, 2006
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This weeks episode includes: J.M Barrie, H.P Lovecraft on Poe, top five underappreciated Alfred Hitchcock films, Film Title of the Week, Halloween Jokes, Everse podcast love, famous graves, collective noun of the week, “Code of Silence” film. Our special guest this week is Judith Redding from www.ffur.org who joins us in our regular witty banter about nothing and everything.
Episode 2 – October 23rd, 2006
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This week’s episode includes: Bet on Patience, Poetry by Ernest (Sunrise with Sea Monsters), top five movies that have a one letter name, unbelievable but real movie name, invaluable fact of the week, scary town name, collective noun and just general banter about nothing in particular.
Episode 1 – October 16th, 2006
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First podcast of the weekly e-verse newsletter. Todays topics includes “Episode” by Irving Feldman, top five writers who have killed people, Contemporary Poetry Review, Book Stores revival, things to do in New York when you’re Irish, book that sound dirty but aren’t and a whole lot more…