DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE
A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over a thousand unique posts in these three years. Images, both visual and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from verses, photos and computer-graphics on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense".
September 30, 2023
* SEP 30, insects -- yellow jackets
September 28, 2023
* SEP 28, pandemic poetry -- D.Y.O.D
reprise from September 2020
SEP 28, pandemic poetry: 'D.Y.O.D.'
DYOD: do your own dishes, an analogous motto proposed for software-enhanced 'remote get-togethers' via internet
Zoom: software for interactive on-line meetings
Other verses by the author relating to the viral pneumonia pandemic of 2020 (COVID-19) include attribute, calamari, cetacean, confinement, and dine in.
September 26, 2023
* SEP 26, Toronto oases: Humber Bay park
reprise from September 26, 2020
September 24, 2023
* SEP 24, trees - sago palms
reprise from September 2021
SEP 24, trees: sago palms
September 22, 2023
* SEP 22, Toronto ravines: Riverdale Farm photocollages
reprise from September 2020
SEP 22, Toronto ravines: Riverdale Farm, photocollages #1-#2
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
September 20, 2023
* SEP 20, Toronto ravines -- floating islands (poem)
reprise from September 2020
SEP 20, Toronto ravines -- Brickworks: floating islands (poem)
If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)
September 18, 2023
* SEP 18, savoir-faire --- corniches (Nice)
reprise from September 2020
SEP 18, savoir-faire: corniches (Nice)
September 16, 2023
* SEP 16, brief saga -- Gino's food intolerance
reprise from 2020
SEP 16, a brief saga: food intolerance
September 14, 2023
* SEP 14, Toronto ravines --- 'Brickworks' photocollages
reprise from 2020
SEP 14, Toronto ravines: Brickworks photocollages #1-#3
September 12, 2023
* SEP 12, Toronto ravines -- Rosedale Valley
reprise from 2020
SEP 11, Toronto ravines: Rosedale Valley, photocollages #1-#2
September 10, 2023
* SEP 10, waterfowl -- gallinules
reprise from 2020
SEP 10, waterfowl: gallinules
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
September 8, 2023
* SEP 8, classic palindrome -- able ere Elba
reprise from 2020
SEP 8, classic palindrome: 'able ere Elba'
September 7, 2023
SEP 7, patients and their maladies: lichen sclerosus
September 6, 2023
* SEP 6, Toronto ravines -- Sherwood
reprise from 2020
SEP 6, Toronto ravines: Sherwood
September 5, 2023
SEP 5, painterly poetry: Picasso's blue period
September 4, 2023
* SEP 4, scramble-towns of Eastern Canada, #3 and #4
reprise from 2021
SEP 4, wordplay map: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #3 and #4
September 3, 2023
SEP 3, American satire (prolongation): honest
HONEST
"What I'm saying is God's honest truth,"
Per accused perp, now long in the tooth.
With the court now in session,
We'll assess his expression,
As conveyed from the media booth.
September 2, 2023
* SEP 2, portraits of couples -- domestic turkeys
reprise from 2020
SEP 2, portraits of couples: domestic turkeys
September 1, 2023
SEP 1, palinku (poetic novelty): reliable transport
(Ed. note:) Verses of this ilk have continued to accumulate. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
August 31, 2023
* AUG 31, wordplay maps -- new world palindromes #35,#36
reprise from 2020
AUG 31, wordplay maps: new world palindromes(#35,#36)
August 30, 2023
AUG 30, non-sequitur "Caine Mutiny"
"CAINE MUTINY"
His biz, based on falsehoods and lootiny,
His modus and mind needed scrutiny.
Yet his climb didn't stop,
'Til he grabbed for the top.
An old plot: Captain Queeg and "Caine Mutiny".
Giorgio Coniglio, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny_(film)
August 29, 2023
* AUG 29, magical canal palindromes -- racy, carnal, Panama
reprise from 2020
AUG 29, magical palindromes: 'A man, a plan (racy, carnal) -- Paris'
You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found in ancient days on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE; then, you could check how we applied this technique to 'canal palindromes' by viewing this more recent post.
August 28, 2023
AUG 28, palinku (poetic novelty): European capitals
August 27, 2023
* AUG 27, classic palindrome -- Zeus sees Suez (canal-pals)
reprise from 2020
AUG 27, classic palindromes: Zeus sees Suez
Related photo (2022):
an intrepid adventurer prepares his bicycle-packs for an arduous journey along the Erie Canal.