E-Verse representative and beer expert Keith Keller joined Paul at the opening night of Philadelphia Beer Week, this footage taken from the Nodding Head. If you’re in Philly and looking for some events, check out www.phillybeerweek.org

We start 2008 with a quick review of some of our favorite things from 2007 including books, music, movies, web videos, tech and local eateries.

In this episode, the E-Verse Contessa presents three Shakespearean words: Contumely, Cotquean and Collied. Ernie and the Contessa also discuss the identity of Shakespeare’s mysterious “Dark Lady.” Tune in for more on Shakespeare’s “C’s.”

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” E-Verse cries poor in this episode with the help of Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ernie offers a bad impersonation of W.C Fields, Top 5 Money Songs, Money Facts that you may not have known and plenty more. Plus, it’s free and we’re giving away SWAG…no wonder we’re poor.

reminder to E-Versers that, although it has been a while since our last episode, we are not going away. Ernie got married, which apparently takes some organizing . . . who knew? The E-Verse Contessa offers up her favorite goodies that you can surely pass on to your friends as a Christmas gift and they will love you forever. From the Tatoos, Pens, Stickers and guitar picks, there’s enough to keep you amused for minutes. - Paul

That’s right, E-Verse’s very own Ernest Hilbert took the plunge with the lovely Lynn this past weekend and both are currently sunning themselves through the Greek Isles. Taken from the wedding party, this clip is from another E-Verse favorite, Keith Kelleher presenting a very Diamondesque performance for the couple. More clips will be on their way when the opportunity arises.

Uh oh, it looks like the E-Verse Boys are on the run again, and this time they’ve joined the circus. Last week, they broadcast from an old door. This week, it’s an ironing board. No lie. Can you believe it? Production values are plunging in the E-Verse Universe. But stop by and and say hi, and hear Hilbert read Yeats’s “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” and top five circus superstitions, watch Vampire Circus (1972) and clips from the top five circus movies, and Paul takes you away with his Follies, where you can see clown cars and cat circuses. It’s a three-ring circus! So step right up . . . .

It’s looks like the E-Verse boys are on the lam again! Remember, you can dodge its long arm. You can lay it down. You can enforce and flee it, but the law is the law. Have a look at this week’s “Law” episode of E-Verse Radio. Jessica, the E-Verse Contessa, stops by to bring us the new installment of her very popular “Shakespeare Says” series, featuring “B” words coined by the immortal bard. Ernest and Paul talk about brushes with the law and share advice from Edmund Burke and others. Ernest reads W.H. Auden’s famous poem “Law Like Love,” and Paul shares fun police chases and video footage of cops breaking the law. They also count down top five law songs, including “The Saw is the Law” and Judas Priest’s fabulously bad “Breaking the Law” from 1980.
Ernest reads his sonnet “Improprieties.” Readers write in with stories of talking with Leonard Cohen, advice on cool places to visit in San Francisco, and so much more. Watch the E-Verse guys fight the law and lose, as always. Incidentally, it’s been a long time since those run-ins with the law described by Ernest. He exists entirely within the realm of enforceable law these days, which, in Philadelphia, is not a terribly difficult thing to accomplish.

In this second Vodka episode, E-Verse Radio counts down the Top 5 Facts about Vodka, Fleming’s Follies compiles Smirnoff v Absolut ads faceoff and a little Boris Yeltsin action. Anton Chekhov enlightens us with the Eight Course Meal for Journalists, the Hilbertian Sonnet “On Boarding a Soviet Attack Submarine” plus reports from the E-Verse Universe. I like my E-Verse shaken, not stirred.