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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
Some guy asked me about the size of my carbon footprint. I told him it's exactly the same size as my regular footprint ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 02:32
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented an Automatic Attic(™). Just plug it in, turn it on, and it fills any room with a musty odor ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 03:00
My friend Miles Walker and I were headed for Glory. It wasn't the first time we'd set out in that direction. For some reason, Glory always seems ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 03:20
Victor never thought it would be easy. After all, full-grown dragons are as big as a windmill, and tougher than a stone wall ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 03:00
I was three blocks away from Elmer's Cafe when I caught the first waft of spice in the air ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 05:28
I know a guy who can tell you whether it's summer or fall just by looking at a calendar. That never worked for me ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 03:05
Today it’s the return of the much-loved feature INTO AN INTERVIEW where we’ll hear from JOE MARKERT of the wonderful BERKELEY band CURE FOR GRAVITY...
- Added: Oct 18, 2015
- Length: 35:45
That was the Year of the Whist - or, as some folks called it, the Great Dream Shortage ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58