PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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My friend Evelyn Devlin is a bit of a romantic. Most poets are, I suppose ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 03:23
Vern Acular and I were lolling around in a clearing in the woods, trying to scoop together enough motivation to pack up our things and get moving ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 03:01
Nobody ever says grace at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2015
- Length: 03:10
Here's another little children's song. It's about trees shedding their leaves while we humans bundle ourselves up ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:37
My friend Anne Thespy is building a theater down on the coast. It's an amphitheater: half of it is underwater, and the other half is on dry land ...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 02:39
I caught sight of my friend Bill O'Sale the other day, but only just barely. He was all fancied up in a pinstripe suit, and he was power-walking d...
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 02:22
My friend Flora Caprifolia is a Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys. I don't know where she's working now. She moves around a lot ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 02:39
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a universal compass. I said "great! Which way is north?" He said "if you're referring to the North Pole, I...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 02:53
When Alice was very young, she had only one ambition. There was only one thing that Alice wanted to do more than anything else in the world, and t...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 03:46
There are 57 dead-end streets in this burg. And more roads to nowhere than an honest man can count ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 03:13
I was out on Bottle Neck the other day. The tide was low, but the rain kept pounding down in endless layers, like sopping wet blankets ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 02:41
When the universe is out to get you, what does luck have to do with it?
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 02:29
My friend Rita Book is a lexical engineer. She helps create new technologies designed to make reading and writing easier - or, at least, that's wh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 02:48
This one is a children's song about autumn ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: :59
Last night I camped out on the banks of Babbling Brook. Boy, did I get an earful! ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 03:08
My friend Alfred O. Mega is a genuine, certified hero. It says so right on his diploma ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 03:27
I was helping my friend Vern Acular sort leaves the other day. Vern thinks it's important that all fallen leaves are kept in separate piles accord...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 02:48
I once visited a faraway place called Academia. You may or may not have been there. It's a curious land with rather odd local customs ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 02:47
Ana Gram couldn't understand what was so important about spelling. She knew that letters were important. She knew that letters were used to make ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 03:25
My friend Bill O'Sale owns the world's tallest outdoor, coin-operated vacuum cleaner ...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 02:52
My friend Stretch likes to think of himself as a role model. I said "why, because you get stale after a while?" ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 03:02
A bunch of us were sitting around Elmer's Cafe the other day, telling ghost stories ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 02:57
My friend Archie Meade was telling me about all the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of mathematics. I don't mind sayin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 03:29
Here's a little Halloween song for the kids ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 01:54
My friend Buford Colic is hosting a barn dance this weekend. I'm afraid to go, for obvious reasons. I mean, have you ever seen a barn doing the h...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 02:37