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Sun, Nov 04 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #898

Our Monday book serialization is George Ade's 1903 collection, 'In Babel -- Stories of Chicago.' The stories in this book range from the hysterically funny to the pathetically sad. Altogether, they paint a fascinating portrait of turn-of-the-last-century Chicago.

In today's tale, a nasty man comes up with a clever way of insulting his relations in 'Mr. Payson's Satirical Christmas.'

Time: approx fourteen and a half minutes

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Direct download: revry-2007-11-04a.mp3
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Sun, Nov 04 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #897

SUNDAY SALAD offers up TWO Stanley Huntley stories today, both from 1881 -- in the first tale, 'The Modern Anectode Relator' a man with a memory problem doesn't ever get around to the point of a story (and neither does his listener). The second tale -- perhaps a deservingly forgotten Spoopendyke story that was never reprinted -- gives us a glance at Mr. Spoopendyke's nastiest side during a gin hangover, in 'After A Matinee.'

Time: approx thirteen minutes

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Direct download: revry-2007-11-04.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:13am EDT