'Dr. JJ', as many readers would have ascertained, did not seem to be a big fan of 'the 45th'.
A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
February 12, 2022
FEB 12, limericks by 'Dr. JJ'
February 11, 2022
FEB 11, at heart: Jack Sprat and his bypass grafts
February 10, 2022
FEB 10 (2022), singable satire: The Animals sing Lewis Carroll's "JABBERWOCKY"
"Dr. JJ" enjoyed playing the electric guitar among other instruments. He frequently enlivened major family events by performing parody songs written for the occasion, using base songs from the golden oldies period. His favorite song vehicle was undoubtedly the folk-rock classic "The House of the Rising Sun" (1964) as recorded by the British band The Animals. (A YouTube version is found HERE.)
"Jabberwock", Giorgio's copy, drawing by John Tenniel, illustrator of Carroll's books |
To review the rest of the lyrics and chord-charts, follow this link to our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire" by clicking HERE.
For historic interest, here is a slide used as part of an open-mike at a ukulele club when the concept of this pastiche was first entertained.
February 9, 2022
FEB 9, exotic destination: Hawaii vs. Haida Gwaii
JJ, age 14, dancing with his mother |
FEB 9, insects: termites
February 7, 2022
FEB 7, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): concealed carry
You can review our entire poetic outpouring on this topic by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.
February 6, 2022
FEB 6: palinku (poetic novelty): sports
This blog-post is in honour of 'Dr. JJ', whose love of life included satire, the music of poetry, and of course, both participatory and spectator sports ...
In this post, we will continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes'); click HERE to start.
February 5, 2022
FEB 5, inspired by Ogden Nash: a brief saga -- 'a gnat and a nit'
A version of this poem by Giorgio can also be found on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". There you can find appended some examples of the wonderful limericks that were indisputably written by Ogden Nash. CLICK to proceed to that version if you are interested.
FEB 5, reptiles: brown (Bahaman) anoles
Further reading? See this interesting article:
two hippy-haired bros, Dec 1976 |
February 3, 2022
FEB 3, bi-lyrical limerick: 'dispoarity' (daughter and son)
February 2, 2022
FEB 2, American satire: corruption
February 1, 2022
FEB 1, variant Nantucket limerick: sugar-daddy from Nanking
January 31, 2022
JAN 31, poet's corner: argumentively (the Cans and the Can'ts)
January 30, 2022
JAN 30, planet-saving verse: beach foam
You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
January 29, 2022
JAN 29, hellenophilia: Santorini wines
links for any date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.
January 28, 2022
JAN 28, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): anger and guns
You can review our entire poetic outpouring on this important topic by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.
January 27, 2022
JAN 27, reprehensible modern history: 'clannishness' negated
View the entire collection of poetic assertions on this topic (currently small, but growing) at our more encyclopedic blog 'Edifying Nonsense', by clicking HERE.