Tue, Oct 20 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1482 Getting a head start on Halloween, we are featuring fun ghost tales this week. From the 1880s, today we offer Eugene Field's poem concerning a bibliomaniac ghost giving a taste of the afterlife, in 'Dibdin's Ghost.' Time: approx five and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebration. we are having a con...
Oct 21, 2009•6 min
Mon, Oct 19 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1481 In Chapter Eight of our Monday Book Serialization of Ella Cheever Thayer's 1880 novel 'Wired Love' Cyn and Nattie bury their blues by having 'The Feast.' Time: approx twenty minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Wired Love index is at: http://ronevry.com/http://ronevry.com/wiredlove.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebration. we are ha...
Oct 20, 2009•20 min
Sun, Oct 18 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1480 SUNDAY SALAD offers up a Stanley Huntley tale from 1880 about some of the extreme measures used to collect back rent in 'A Pertinacious Landlord.' Time: approx five and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500...
Oct 19, 2009•5 min
Sat, Oct 17 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1479 Our Saturday Night Special story is a fair warning for city dwellers to really mean what they say to strangers in 'The Champion of the Weather' by O Henry, published in 1911. Time: approx twelve minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The O Henry Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/ohenry.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebration. ...
Oct 18, 2009•12 min
Fri, Oct 16 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1478 From the posthumously published 1901 collection of very short Eugene Field pieces called 'The Complete Tribune Primer' we offer TWO more horrible bits of bad advice for children -- 'James and Reginald' and 'The Chewing Gum' Time: approx five and a half minutes Frederic Opper The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebrati...
Oct 17, 2009•5 min
Thur, Oct 15 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1477 From the posthumously published 1901 collection of very short Eugene Field pieces called 'The Complete Tribune Primer' we offer TWO more strange bits of bad advice for children -- 'Mental Arithmetic' and 'The Fish.' Time: approx two and a half minutes Frederic Opper The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebration. we a...
Oct 16, 2009•3 min
Wed, Oct 14 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1476 From the posthumously published 1901 collection of very short Eugene Field pieces called 'The Complete Tribune Primer' we offer TWO more hilarious bits of bad advice for children -- 'Johnny and the Pears' and 'The Nose.' Time: approx three and a half minutes Frederic Opper The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebration...
Oct 15, 2009•4 min
Tue, Oct 13 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1475 From the posthumously published 1901 collection of very short Eugene Field pieces called 'The Complete Tribune Primer' we offer TWO hilarious bits of bad advice for children -- 'The Pretty Parrot' and 'The Ink Bottle.' Time: approx four minutes Frederic Opper The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebration. we are havin...
Oct 14, 2009•4 min
Mon, Oct 12 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1474 In our Monday Book Serialization of Ella Cheever Thayer's 1880 novel 'Wired Love' Nattie breaks it off with 'C' in Chapter Seven (Part Two of Two), 'Good-By.' Time: approx nine and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Wired Love index is at: http://ronevry.com/http://ronevry.com/wiredlove.html Mister Ron's Basement is getting very close to Episode #1500! In celebrat...
Oct 13, 2009•13 min
Sun, Oct 11 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1473 SUNDAY SALAD features Stanley Huntley's 1882 look at the duties of a newspaper Exchange Editor, whose job was to clip articles out of other papers to put in his own. It's called 'The Spring Fashion in Lies.' Time: approx six and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html ...
Oct 12, 2009•7 min
Sat, Oct 10 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1472 Our Saturday Night Special story is a continuation of a previous James M. Bailey tale, Mr. Coville Proves Mathematics from Episode number 1416. It is called 'Coville Convalescences' from 1877, and has also seen print as as 'Mr. Coville's Easy Chair.' Time: approx six minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbai...
Oct 11, 2009•6 min
Fri, Oct 9 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1471 In 1914, Thomas L. Masson explored the horrible complications of modern romance among the Smart Set in 'Two Hearts Beat as One.' You'll laugh... Time: approx seven minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/masson.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Donate One Dollar: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Ron_Donate.html A h...
Oct 10, 2009•7 min
Thur, Oct 8 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1470 From 1915, Thomas L. Masson gives us a guided tour of 'A Place Not on the Map' (which maybe should be). Time: approx three and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/masson.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Donate One Dollar: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Ron_Donate.html A hint to new listeners - you ca...
Oct 09, 2009•3 min
Wed, Oct 7 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1469 Today we bring you Thomas L. Masson's charming romance from 1912 about a crude former football player and a sophisticated young flirt in 'The Last Shall Be First.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/masson.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Donate One Dollar: http://ronevry....
Oct 07, 2009•8 min
Tue, Oct 6 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1468 It is hard to believe that Thomas L. Masson wrote his satirical stories so long ago. Today we read his 1905 set of instructions that could easily apply today -- 'How to Live Beyond Your Income - Permanently.' Time: approx nine and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/masson.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Baseme...
Oct 07, 2009•9 min
Mon, Oct 5 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1467 In our Monday Book Serialization of Ella Cheever Thayer's 1880 novel 'Wired Love' Nattie expresses her disappointment over her face-to-face meeting with 'C' to her friends in Part One of Two of Chapter Seven, 'Good-By.' Time: approx nine and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Wired Love index is at: http://ronevry.com/http://ronevry.com/wiredlove.html Help Keep Mis...
Oct 06, 2009•10 min
Sun, Oct 4 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1466 SUNDAY SALAD offers up a tale of Brooklyn Ministers who sic the Long Arm of the Law on a con man posing as one of them in Stanley Huntley's 1880 story 'Catching a Clerical Sharper.' Time: approx four and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Bas...
Oct 05, 2009•4 min
Sat, Oct 3 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1465 Our Saturday Night Special story is a stirring, exciting tale, reminiscent of the days when Americans used to make things. From 'Brick' Pomeroy comes the 1871 adventure story, 'Race on the Prairie.' Time: approx twelve minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Brick Pomeroy Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/brickpomeroy.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Dona...
Oct 04, 2009•12 min
Fri, Oct 2 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1464 We are featuring stories about Editors this week! Bill Nye touches on an occupational hazard involved in running a small-town newspaper in his 1882 piece, 'The Man Who Licks the Editor.' Time: approx four and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/billnye.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Donate One Dollar...
Oct 03, 2009•5 min
Thur, Oct 1 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1463 We are featuring stories about Editors this week! Anybody who ever had to submit something to an editor should appreciate this truly funny 1899 story by Charles Battell Loomis, 'The Father of Santa Claus.' By the way, the Ford mentioned in this story is obviously not Henry, but James L. Ford, columnist for the New York Herald, who usually referred to his writing as 'The Literary Shop.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes It is that time of year agai...
Oct 02, 2009•7 min
Wed, Sep 30 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1462 We are featuring stories about Editors this week! Stephen Leacock dreams of being an Editor in his 1913 masterpiece 'Making a Magazine.' Time: approx fifteen and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stephen Leacock Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Leacock_Stories.html Also, do check out the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor web site at: http://leacock.ca H...
Oct 01, 2009•16 min
Tue, Sep 29 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1461 We are featuring stories about Editors this week! We kick off with an insanely funny 1853 story about an irritating visitor to an editor's office from Fanny Fern. It's called 'The Bore of the Sanctum.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Fanny Fern Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Fanny_Fern_Stories.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Bas...
Sep 30, 2009•8 min
Mon, Sep 28 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1460 Our Monday Book Serialization of Ella Cheever Thayer's 1880 novel 'Wired Love' features an unexpected and disappointing face-to-face meeting between Nattie and 'C' -- or does it? Time: approx eighteen minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Wired Love index is at: http://ronevry.com/http://ronevry.com/wiredlove.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Donate One Dollar: ht...
Sep 28, 2009•18 min
Sun, Sep 27 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1459 Today's SUNDAY SALAD offers an 1883 Stanley Huntley piece about a poet who simply cannot conceive of anybody else reading his work out loud. It's called 'A Martyr to His Art.' Fun stuff! Time: approx six minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement ...
Sep 28, 2009•6 min
Sat, Sep 26 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1458 Our Saturday Night Special story from 1880 is by George W. Peck. It's a tale of a goose hiding out in a box, and what happens to all the people who sit on it. The piece is called 'Hanscom's Goose.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George W. Peck Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/georgewpeck.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement a...
Sep 27, 2009•8 min
Fri, Sep 25 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1457 Very short sketches from James M. Bailey's 1873 collection, 'Life in Danbury' grace the Basement this week. Here is one of our shortest pieces ever (but we like it) -- 'The Bread Pudding.' Time: approx two and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive! Don...
Sep 26, 2009•3 min
Thur, Sep 24 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1456 Very short sketches from James M. Bailey's 1873 collection, 'Life in Danbury' grace the Basement this week. Today we offer a detailed analysis of chicken behavior in 'The Hen,' a short but sweet story. Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html Help Keep Mister Ron's Basement alive...
Sep 25, 2009•3 min
Wed, Sep 23 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1455 Very short sketches from James M. Bailey's 1873 collection, 'Life in Danbury' grace the Basement this week. We have a silly, but short piece involving Potatoes, entitled 'Our Proletariats.' Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html A hint to new listeners - you can use the catalogs...
Sep 24, 2009•3 min
Tue, Sep 22 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1454 Very short sketches from James M. Bailey's 1873 collection, 'Life in Danbury' grace the Basement this week. Today we discover how some people express 'Gratitude.' Time: approx three and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The James M. Bailey Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/jamesmbailey.html A hint to new listeners - you can use the catalogs to find stories...
Sep 23, 2009•3 min
Mon, Sep 21 2009 Mister Ron's Basement #1453 Our Monday Book Serialization of Ella Cheever Thayer's 1880 novel 'Wired Love' brings Quimby ever closer to expressing his feelings for Nattie in the second part of Chapter Five, 'Quimby Bursts Forth in Eloquence' who manages to hold him off by playing a waltz. Time: approx fourteen minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Wired Love index is at: http://ronevry.com/http://rone...
Sep 22, 2009•14 min
