A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. We are currently approaching 1800 posts in these five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- 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.
December 30, 2020
DEC 30, a brief saga (holidays and celebrations): Hogmanay (Auld Lang's Sine)
December 29, 2020
DEC 29, patients and maladies: knee effusion
December 28, 2020
DEC 28, diagnostic imaging: DEXA (BMD)
December 27, 2020
DEC 27, poetic non-sequitur: cumulative song
December 26, 2020
December 25, 2020
DEC 25, holiday verse: every Adventuality
December 24, 2020
DEC 24, holiday verse: "The Night Before Christmas", pandemically
December 23, 2020
DEC 23, classic palindrome: 'Yreka bakery'
December 22, 2020
DEC 22, waterfowl: brown pelicans
OCT 10, waterfowl: Caribbean brown pelicans
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'.
December 21, 2020
DEC 21, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS -- wordplay for the holiday season
December 20, 2020
DEC 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "REDUPLICATIONS A to K"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
December 19, 2020
DEC 19, wordplay maps: r-i-c anagrams #11+#12
December 18, 2020
DEC 18, American anagram swarm: 'C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L'
December 17, 2020
DEC 17, palinku (poetic novelty) : partying #2
In this post, we will continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay, inspired by Japanese haiku poetry. This new form, in its English-language version, 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, as you likely surmised, the first verse in this collection has already been published here. Part #1 of this trilogy was exhibited in November, 2020.
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') which you can review by clicking HERE.
You can view all our "palinku" verses if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
December 16, 2020
DEC 16, diagnostic imaging: parathyroid scanning
December 15, 2020
DEC 15, etymology: 'miser'
December 14, 2020
DEC 14, Toronto oases: upbeat art
NEWSFLASH !!!
December 13, 2020
DEC 13, wordplay maps: r-i-c anagrams #9+#10
December 11, 2020
DEC 11, American satire: government shutdown
December 10, 2020
DEC 10, holiday verse: Chanukah, selected by Giorgio
December 9, 2020
DEC 9, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS -- lawsuits
The book title "A Very Stable Genius" has invited a flurry of activity in composing anagrams (word-scrambles) that contribute to the sense of uncontrolled chaos that swirled through the American political scene during the White House administration of 2016 to 2020.
A compendium of Giorgio's wordplay on this topic can be evaluated by reviewing posts on the blog "Edifying Nonsense". An initial listing that displays almost 100 anagrams dealing with a variety of topics (foreign policy, internal political maneuvering, domestic scandals, etc.) can be found HERE. Subsequently, further anagrams dealing with more specific topics were accumulated in a followup offering HERE.
The tabulation presented today was inspired by the recent series of lawsuits instigated in state and federal courts to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election.
December 8, 2020
DEC 8, 2020: the origin of our "bloggerel": song-lyrics, poetry, wordplay and photography
SONG LYRICS: Starting in 2011, we had contributed parody song-lyrics to "AmIRight", the most extensive website publishing this type of doggerel on the internet. That website offers authors the advantage of immediate publication, but does not provide editing or post-submission modification. Not surprisingly political and social satire are major elements in AmIRight's table of contents. As I (G.H.) was still personally in sober professional practice at that time, I attributed the submitted works to a pseudonym, and Giorgio Coniglio, a registered practitioner in that field volunteered his writing talents arduously in that regard. After a few years we had contributed some 150 singable entities, but the intense polarization in American society threatened to disrupt the enjoyment previously experienced by AmIRight's cadre of volunteer writers. You can find some of those earlier songs (with familiar tunes, but bizarre lyrics) posted on our current blog "Edifying Nonsense"