Spoken Word with Electronics Those weird dirty records in our parents' basement: Belle Barth's Scary 'Adults Only' LP — and SMURF HEIST: "That Day, at Age 6, When I Broke Into a Friend's House to Steal a Gargamel Figurine" Ethan Persoff
books Old Jewish Comedians – funny, nostalgic portraits of Borscht Belt superstars in their twilight years Mark Frauenfelder
Funny Agatha H and the Airship City: Girl Genius book is a cross between a comic and a prose novel Cory Doctorow
music Allan Sherman's "My Son, The Box" — the complete works of the Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah guy Cory Doctorow