Check out the new custom E-Verse guitar picks, Mark Twain weighs in on flags, “The Next War” by Wilfred Owen, top five cool pirate flags, Joshua Mehigan reading from his award-winning book The Optimist, Bad Book Cover of the Week: Touch Lightning, top five flag facts, Flag Pond, Tennessee, Hilbertian Sonnet of the Week: “On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of John Lennon’s Murder,” readers send in their favorite summer songs, so plant your flags and join us. 25 minutes.
A heady half hour of poetry and literature, Everse was borne from a newsletter that has been delivered around the Web since 1999. Dr. Ernest Hilbert delivers amusing and insightful reviews and opinions on pop culture and the world of books, verse and anything that gets in his way. Don’t be surprised if you learn a thing or two. Would it kill you to read a &#%@* book!
Check out Episode 31 of E-Verse Radio, the Baseball episode! How are pitchers and poets alike? Robert Frost and Cy Young explain. Hear Ernestâs impassioned reading of the childrenâs classic, âCasey at the Bat.â See footage of the E-Verse crew at the local ballpark. Read up on fascinating baseball facts. Look at E-Verse Radio Bad Book Cover of the Week, Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars. Hear the E-Verse tip of the week: the difference between âforbearâ and âforebear.â Listen to the Hilbertian Sonnet of the week, âGuide to the Modern Man (Beach Issue!).â And top five lists galore: top five baseball promotions, top five minor league mascots, top five player nicknames, and, of course, top five baseball songs, with our special guest, DJ and baseball fanatic Keith Kelleher. So grab a beer, settle in, and watch E-Verse Radioâs long-anticipated Baseball episode.
The Five Senses episode includes free temporary tattoos, introduction for Ernest's new blog, quotes from Diane Ackerman and Walt Whitman, "Skunk Cabbage Slaw" by X.J. Kennedy, Paul's Vegemite taste test, top five "sense" songs, invaluable five senses facts of the week, E-Verse tip of the week ("Grisly" vs. "Grizzly"), Hot Coffee, Mississippi, and more summer songs! We have a good feeling about this one.
This week: William Carlos Williams and Henry James praise the summer, "In a somer seson" from Piers Plowman, Top Five Summer Songs, recipe for Mint Julep Iced Tea, barbeque facts, bad book cover of the week, Gone Away Lake, Fleming's Follies, featuring the Young Ones, Cliff Richards, and some comedy from the Bowery Poetry Club, E-Verse Town You Really Have to Visit, Reports from the E-Verse Universe, and so much more fun for the start of summer!
This 4th July episode features poetry by Stephen Vincent Benet, quotes by Erma Bombeck and Thomas Paine, Top 5 People Born on the 4th of July, 4th of July Facts of the Week. Follies include BBQ mishaps, fireworks and songs about 4th July. The E-Verse Contessa reads a Hilbertian Sonnet, Collective Nouns of the Week and Yul Brynner's cookbook. Light those fireworks and grab a beer for the BBQ and enjoy the E-Verse Fourth of July parade.
Napoleon and Abraham, Shelley's Ozymandias, Top Five Wonders of the Ancient World, some Modern Wonders, some Natural Wonders, readers send in "other" wonders, vote for the new seven wonders of the world, the ghost-town Wonder, Nevada, Seven Wonders of the US Road Trip, and so much more wonders your head might explode!
Freud on the Irish, Yeats's "Byzantium," Top Five Irish Exports, Justin Quinn's "Even Song," Irish facts of the week, E-Verse Follies, featuring Father Ted, Irish cricket and rugby action, Seamus Heaney's Nobel acceptance speech, a film of Seamus Heaney, the Irish Pub, and so much more St. Patrick's Day fun
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! .
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, Justin Quinn's "Laurel," 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!
Check out the new custom E-Verse guitar picks, Mark Twain weighs in on flags, “The Next War” by Wilfred Owen, top five cool pirate flags, Joshua Mehigan reading from his award-winning book The Optimist, Bad Book Cover of the Week: Touch Lightning, top five flag facts, Flag Pond, Tennessee, Hilbertian Sonnet of the Week: “On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of John Lennon’s Murder,” readers send in their favorite summer songs, so plant your flags and join us. 25 minutes.
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