Readings by Title

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"'Eval' being Zapped by Yahoo!" by News-Item

2

"2002 Dishonorable Mention, Misc Category" by Debra Rosenfeld from Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

"2002 Dishonorable Mention, Vile Pun Category" by Mr. Harry W. Hickey from Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

"2002 Winner, Adventure Category" by Geoff Blackwell from Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

"2002 Winner, Children's Literature Category" by Matthew Roscoe from Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

"2002 Winner, Detective Category" by Matthew Chambers from Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

5

"57 Clowns Joke" by anonymous

A

"Abiyoyo" by Pete Seeger

"Abiyoyo" by Pete Seeger from Pete Seeger's Story Telling Book by Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs

"About the Winter Solstice" by Lucia Maram

excerpts from Acquainted With the Night by Lynn Saville

"Agent Elegy" by Ethan Cohen from The Drunken Driver has the Right of Way

excerpts from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

excerpts from All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy

excerpts from All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare

"Always Marry an April Girl" by Ogden Nash

"Ambience Can Make it Special" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

excerpts from Anagrams by Lorrie Moore

excerpts from Angel's Crest by Leslie Schwartz

"Animals" by Walt Whitman

"Annie Laurie" by William Douglas from Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

"Anonymous" by Anonymous from The Book of Epitaphs by W. H. Howe

"Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House" by Billy Collins

"Another Saturday Night Without my Baby" by Ani Cole

"Answers to Questions Nobody Asked" by Judith Martin from Miss Manners

"Are you Lost Angeles?" by Francis Della Vecchia was performed by Francis Della Vecchia

"The Arrest" by Ambrose Bierce from The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ernest J. Hopkins

"The Art of Stillness" by Edward Carey from Observatory Mansions

excerpts from Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman

"Astronomy" by Wayne Ford

excerpts from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand( a soliloquey on Money)

"Avoid People who are Commitment Phobic" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

B

excerpts from Bad Dog and Superhero by Kenneth Hughes

"Better Be Home Soon" by Crowded House

excerpts from The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

excerpts from Bliss by Peter Carey

"Blissed Out Peeing in the Wilderness" by Ani Cole

"Blue Suede Shoes" by Elvis was performed by Spencer

excerpts from A Brief History of the Apocalypse by Chris Nelson from http://www.chrisnelson.net/

"The Brook" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Burning Man Stories" by Jeff

"Bury Towns" by Peter Geiger from Farmer's Almanac 2004

excerpts from By The Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

C

"Call" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Call Me" by Kathy McHugh

excerpts from The Career of Jonathan Wild by Robert Hughes from The Fatal Shore : The Epic of Australia's Founding

"Careful What You Flaunt" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"The Cat Incident" by Ani Nicole

"The Cat" by Murray Thomas

excerpts from Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

"Chaos" by Hakim Bey from T.A.Z The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

"Child Development" by Billy Collins

"Chinese Medicine" by David Warfield

"Comment on the Philippines" by Mark Twain

"Conscience" by Italo Calveno from Numbers in the Dark

D

"Dare to Be Acrobatic" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Dark Night of our Soul" by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Dedicate Your Life to Sex" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"dedicated to River Phoenix" by Ani Nicole

"Deer, Mouse, Rabbit, Squid" by Jon Scieszka from Squids Will Be Squids

"Diving to keep a City's Sewage on the Move" by Marla Dickerson from Los Angeles Times 17 April 2003

"Divorce Poem" by Jeff Aymar

excerpts from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

"Do It a Lot" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"A Dog Joke" by unknown from a collection by internet

"Don't Fake it" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Don't Get Eaten: The Dangers of Animals That Charge or Attack" by Dave Smith was performed by yes

"Don't Judge by Appearances" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Don't Lose Yourself in Your Mate" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Dr. Seuss Computer Manual" by unknown from the internet

excerpts from Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creatures by Olivia Judson

excerpts from The Drawbridge by Sam Yasenda from A Collection of Happy Stories

"A Dream within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

excerpts from Drive Angry by Kenneth Hughes

"The Drunken Driver has the Right of Way" by Ethan Cohen from The Drunken Driver has the Right of Way

"Dry Winter" by Ani Nicole

E

"An Eating Contest Begun in the Summer of 1996 and Continuing to this Day" by Levi T. Stahl from McSweeneys.net

excerpts from Eating to Win by James L. Vertni from L.A. CityBeat 21 August 2003

excerpts from Events Schedule by Assorted from Burning Man 2005: Psyche

"Everybody tryin to meet my baby" by Beatles was performed by Spencer

"Explore Free Love" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

F

"A Fable" by Mark Twain from The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

"Female Worker found Flash-Frozen" by Gail Collins

"A Few Words about Balls" by John Berendt

"Fidelity" by D. H. Lawrence from Pansies

"The First Dream" by Billy Collins

"Flames" by Billy Collins

"Flying with the Other Important Members of your Family" by Peter Greenberg from The Travelk Detective

"For What It's Worth" by Ethan Cohen from The Drunken Driver has the Right of Way

excerpts from For Whom the Bell Tolls by Frank Muir and Dennis Norden from You Have My Word

"Foreign objects removed from people's bodies" by A Reliable Source

"Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins

"From New Jersey" by Anonymous from The Book of Epitaphs by W. H. Howe

excerpts from From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Koenigsberg

G

"The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by Edward Gorey

excerpts from Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

"Get an Early Start" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Get Into the Spirit" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Giving Thanks for Love" by Jocyln Hale from the internet

"Glory Goes and Gets Some" by Emily Carter from The Best American Short Stories of 1998

"Go Carolina" by David Sedaris from Me Talk Pretty One Day

excerpts from God's Gotta Go by George Carlin from Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin

"Going to the Top Won't get You to the Bottom of Bureaucracy" by Daniel Pearl

"The Google Psychology Project" by Samuel

"Graces" by Various from Schott's Food Miscellany by Ben Schott

"The Grass" by Walt Whitman

"Green Grow the Rashes" by Robert Burns

"Guaranteed Effective, All Occasion, Non-slanderous Political Smear Speech" by Bill Garvin from Mad Magazine, December 1970

H

excerpts from Heart of the Comet by David Brin

excerpts from her journals by Elizabeth

"Here, Where?" by Ani Nicole

"Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees" by The Monkees was performed by a whole Group Sing-along

"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes

excerpts from Holes by Louis Sachar

"Home-bound" by Josspeh Auslander

"Hound Dog" by Elvis was performed by Spencer

"How Do They Stay so Thin with that French Fried Attitude" by Dave Barry

"How Do You Know It's a Poem" by Carol Armstrong

excerpts from How To Field a Difficult Question by unknown from a Diamond Brochure

excerpts from How to Jump from a moving Car by Joshua Priven from The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

"How to Talk Dirty" by Sandra Tsing Loh from Depth Takes a Holiday

"How's Your Coverage" by Kathy McHugh

I

"I Didn't Go To Church Today" by Ogden Nash

"I Don't Want to Know" by Spencer Aaronson was performed by Spencer

excerpts from I like Guys by David Sedaris from Naked

"I Need a Lover who won't Drive Me Crazy" by Ani Nicole

"I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing" by Walt Whitman

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

"Impenetrable and Blunt" by Ani Cole

excerpts from In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

excerpts from In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

"Insignificance" by Nicolas Roeg(a retelling of scenes)

excerpts from Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

"Interview with Keanu Reeves" by Chris Heate from Rolling Stone

excerpts from Introduction by Bill Bryson from A Short History of Nearly Everything

"Is There Really Such a Thing as Wild Oats?" by Peter Geiger from Farmer's Almanac 2004

"It's Been Thirteen Days Since" by Ani Cole

"It's OK to be Small and Fat" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

J

"Jenny Kiss'd Me" by Leigh Hunt from Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

"Jet Age" by Dennis O'Driscol from Weather Permitting

"Joke: I think I'm a Moth" by anonymous

"Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot

excerpts from Joy in the morning by Betty Smith

K

"The Killing of Crazy Horse" by Black Elk from Black Elk Speaks by told to John Neihardt

L

"The Lama" by Ogden Nash

"The Last of the Malibu Hillbillies: Millie Decker and the the Ring of Fire" by Jake Halpern from LA Weekly July 11-17, 2003

excerpts from Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

excerpts from Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

"Lindisfarne" by Herbert Trench

"Little Vagabond" by William Blake

excerpts from Living Juicy by Sark

"Loneliness to Be" by Max Swanton was performed by Max Swanton

excerpts from The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

excerpts from The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

"The Lorax" by Dr. Suess

excerpts from The Loved Ones by Evelyn Waugh

M

"Make your Bed the River" by Nico Case & Her Boyfriends was performed by Christine & Joseph

excerpts from The Making of the Life of Brian by David Morgan from Monty Python Speaks!

"The Man Who Shouted Teresa" by Italo Calveno from Numbers in the Dark

"Many Moons" by James Thurber

"Martha Stewart Nation" by David Warfield

"McCavity The Mystery Cat" by T. S. Eliot from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

"Mind Numbing News" by Ani Cole

"Missing Violins Case: the Finder Fiddles While the Losers Sue" by Daniel Pearl from Wall Street Journal

"Moonless Meander" by Rusty Steinberg

excerpts from My American Journey by Colin Powell

"My Life" by John Lennon was performed by Spencer

"My Love in Her Attire" by Anonymous from Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

excerpts from My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl

"Mystery Category Entry" by Kathy McHugh from Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

N

"Not a Good Cat Day" by Carol Armstrong

O

"Observations about the Millennium & Internet" by Andy Steinberg

"The Ocean Below" by Jim Carroll from Void of Course

"Old Men" by Ogden Nash

"Old Men Playing Basketball" by B. H. Fairchild from The Art of the Lathe

"On Growing Old" by Robert Terry Westin from Life Prayers by Elizabeth Robert

"On Love" by Kahlil Gibran

"On Owen Moore" by Anonymous from The Book of Epitaphs by W. H. Howe

"One Piece at a Time" by W. Kemp

"Origin of Strawberries" by traditional from Cherokee Legend

"Origin of the phrase "OK"" by anonymous

"Origin of the term "Dead Ringer"" by anonymous

"Originals and Covers" by Various Artists was performed by Andy, Max, and Joe

P

excerpts from Pantagleize by Michel de Ghelderode

excerpts from Paul Klee by Paul Klee

"Penguin Joke" by anonymous

excerpts from Perfume by Patrick Süskind

"Piano" by D. H. Lawrence

"Plenty of Thyme" by Ani Nicole

"Political Food Quotations" by Various from Schott's Food Miscellany by Ben Schott

excerpts from Poppycock by Jim Hogshire from You Are Being Lied To by Russ Kirk

"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" by Ogden Nash from Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

"Precepts 1-14" by Thich Nhat Hanh from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"Presentation is Important" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

R

"Reasons to Survive November" by Tony Hoagland from What Narcissism Means to Me

"The Rec Room" by Jeff Ayers

"The Red Ranger of Mars" by Berkeley Breathed

"Rest Easy, Easy Going Chess" by Ani Nicole

"Review of Tiger! Tiger!" by Dorothy Parker

"Richard Corey Rap" by Evan Aaronson was performed by Evan

"The Riddle" by Anonymous

excerpts from Ride a Horse Foaled by an Acorn by Robert Hughes from The Fatal Shore : The Epic of Australia's Founding

"Rock, Paper, Scissors" by Jon Scieszka from Squids Will Be Squids

"Romance Pasta Guarantee" by unknown from Romance Pasta Package

excerpts from Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam from a collection by Edward Fitzgerald, Translator

S

"Satan is my Motor" by Cake was performed by assorted singers

"Sea (Del Mar)" by Ani Cole

"The Second Bakery Attack" by Haruki Murakami from The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami

excerpts from The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

"a selection" by Pam Houston from Wild Places, 20 Journeys into the North American Outdoors by McHugh

"She Being Brand" by e e cummings

excerpts from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

excerpts from Slaughterhouse Five (or, the Children's Crusade) by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

"Slogans & Mottos for Subway Graffiti & Other Purposes" by Hakim Bey from T.A.Z The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

"Snappy Comeback School/Clown Joke" by anonymous

"So Long, Mom, I'm Off to Drop the Bomb" by Tom Lehrer was performed by assorted singers

"Solsticia!" by Elizabeth Oakes was performed by Sock du Soleil

"Some Poetic-Terrorist Ideas Still Sadly Languishing in the Realm of "Conceptual Art"" by Hakim Bey from T.A.Z The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

"Sonnet 93" by William Shakespeare

excerpts from Sophie's Choice by William Styron

"Soul Window" by Francis Della Vecchia

excerpts from Souled Out Department by Roy Rivenburg from Off Kilter by Los Angeles Times

"Speak Roughly to your Little Boy" by Lewis Carroll from A Book of Nonsense: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Others

"Spittin' Image" by Peter Geiger from Farmer's Almanac 2004

excerpts from Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

"Start from Scratch" by Peter Geiger from Farmer's Almanac 2004

excerpts from The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by John Scieszka

"The Storm" by Julia Butterfly Hill from The Legacy of Luna

"Story of Kettle Chips" by Anonymous from Quest of the Epicurean(From the Label)

"Such Sweet Sorrow" by Ethan Cohen from The Drunken Driver has the Right of Way

"Summer Camp" by David Levine

excerpts from Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher

"Swinging on a Star" by Johnny Burke, Jimmy van Heusen was performed by Matt and Kathy

T

"A Tale of Leslie Baker & The Friendly Ozzies" by Kathy McHugh

"Ten Deadliest Animals" by Producers of Animal Planet

"Ten Little Injuns" by Anonymous from A Book of Nonsense: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Others

excerpts from Tentacles of Rage, the Republican Propaganda Machine, a Short History by Lewis Lapham from Harper's Magazine

"Termite, Ant, and Echidna" by Jon Scieszka from Squids Will Be Squids

"Terms of Service" by David Warfield

excerpts from Therapy by David Lodge

"The Thin Man" by W.S. Van Dyke / Dashiell Hammett

"Think Ahead for Easy Cleanup" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"This is just to say" by William Carlos Williams

"Tiempo Perdido" by Andy Reyes was performed by Andy Reyes

excerpts from Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein from Notebooks of Lazarus Long

excerpts from The Time of Your Life by Kenneth Hughes

"To a Love Poet" by Dennis O'Driscol from Weather Permitting

"To Kill for Whom" by Ani Nicole

excerpts from Toad-Licking Blues by Thomas Lyttle from You Are Being Lied To by Russ Kirk

"Toast & Fruit Loops" by Jon Scieszka from Squids Will Be Squids

"Toast to the Anniversary of the Meander Haiku" by Andy Steinberg

"Tourists" by D. H. Lawrence from More Pansies

"True or False" by John Ciardi

excerpts from The True Story of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

"Twenty One Down" by David Sedaris from Me Talk Pretty One Day

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat" by Lewis Carroll from A Book of Nonsense: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Others

U

"Untitled" by A. Powell Davies

"Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick from Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

V

excerpts from The Vanishing Glass by J. K. Rowling from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

"The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams

excerpts from The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

excerpts from Viva la Repartee by Mardy Grothe

W

"A Wandering, Unfocused History of the Meander" by Samuel Goldstein

"Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" by Jenny Joseph

"Watch out for Transvestites" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

excerpts from What a Man shoudl know about Childbirth by unknown from a Diamond Brochure

"What Happened on September 16th in History" by Yarranet.com

"The Whore of Mensa" by Woody Allen

"why some people be mad at me sometimes" by Lucille Clifton from Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep by Michael Harper & Anthony Walton

"Win Your Duels" by Katherine Gould from A Tiger in the Bedroom: Lessons from Mother Nature's Sex Shop

"Wish You Were Here" by Pat Boone was performed by assorted singers

"The Wolf's Head" by Renwick Oden & John Buchaca

"The Work" by Edward Carey from Observatory Mansions

"Wrecking Ball" by Neil Young was performed by Christine & Joseph

X

"XXXV" by A. E. Housman from A Shropshire Lad

Y

"Yop" by Pete Seeger from Pete Seeger's Story Telling Book by Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs

"You are Old, Father William" by Lewis Carroll from A Book of Nonsense: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Others