Final post
DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE
A blogsite that offered 30 entertaining oddities each month from 2020 through 2024, now serving as an archive for 1800 posts accumulated over those five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- were drawn from daily life, including work, family, travel and newsreading experiences. Illustrated poems and wordplay grouped by topic can also be found on our ongoing blog "Edifying Nonsense" at edifyingnonsense.net.
January 2, 2025
December 31, 2024
DEC 31, photo-collage: Talking Heads, non-avian
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Carolina (green) anole |
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Welsh corgi |
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olive baboon |
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American toad |
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cottontail bunny |
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ghost crab |
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horse |
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raccoon |
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tur (ibex) |
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llama |
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green chameleon |
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goat |
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turtle |
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broad-headed skink |
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grey squirrel (black variant) |
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hippopotamus |
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southern toad |
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mule |
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basset hound |
December 30, 2024
DEC 30, singable satire: "BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC"
a) Review of material posted on December 30 in previous years ...
2023: singable satire, Auld Lang's Sine, song version (parody lyrics)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 30, 2024):
PARODY-LYRICS

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2014.
Of interest, the original song is a described as a folk music song about a hobo's version of paradise, a modern extension of the medieval concept of "Cockaigne".
This song he sang
“The landscaped grounds are lush with flowers,
December 29, 2024
DEC 29, stand on guard (Canada): tariff terror
a) Review of material posted on December 29 in previous years ...
2021: curtained verse, orchestral pecking-order (poem)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 29, 2024):
December 28, 2024
DEC 28, OEDILFIAN limericks: "democracy"
a) Reprise of material posted on December 28 in previous years ...
2021: patients and maladies, non-tumorous omas (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, Haida Gwaii (illustrated verse)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 28, 2024):
Editors' Follow-up Note: Here's a thought that we had about this issue on the morning of January 7th:
Jan. the sixth, 'twenty-five, came and went,
A perfunctory D.C. event.
Quickly vote counts were tallied
(No rioters rallied)
Pent-up anger it seems had been spent.
Yet our hearts cry out, "Sinners, repent!"
Happy New Year ... Your blog-editors.
December 27, 2024
DEC 27, American satire: cabinet confirmation --- i
a) Reprise of material posted on December 27 in previous years ...
2021: binomial phrases, fossil words (poem)
2023: waterfowl, Ibis Hotel, poolside (photo-display)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 27, 2024):
The president, who employed her in his first term as director of the Small Business Administration, nominated her in 2024 as Secretary of Education, but has repeatedly indicated that he would like to eventually eliminate the Department.
We hope that you enjoyed these verses. You can find 50 more on this general topic in 9 collections on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE to start.
December 26, 2024
DEC 26, national and multi-national verse (imperialistic trio): Greenland
a) Reprise of material posted on December 26 in previous years ...
2021: reptile, geckos on ceiling (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Zeus sees Suez. (wordplay)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 26, 2024):
You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
December 25, 2024
DEC 25, reprise: Xmas anniversary
a) Reprise of material posted on December 25 in previous years ...
2021: personal/family history, brief bio (illustrated poem)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 25, 2024):