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.
October 30, 2020
OCT 30, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia)
October 29, 2020
OCT 29, gruesome verse: scary upshot
October 28, 2020
OCT 28, Toronto ravines: Seton Park (Central Don), photocollages #1-#2
October 27, 2020
OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
October 26, 2020
OCT 26, Toronto ravines: Wilket Creek / Edwards Gardens
October 25, 2020
OCT 25, Toronto ravines: Nordheimer Ravine
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 24, 2020
OCT 24, Toronto ravines: Mimico Creek
October 23, 2020
OCT 23, gruesome verse: untimely demise
Hallowe'en is approaching!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
October 22, 2020
OCT 22, old world palindromes #1
October 21, 2020
OCT 21, insects: beer bugs
October 20, 2020
OCT 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "RHYMING BINOMIALS, M to Z"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.
There’s make or break, and move and groove, neither or either, mash- and mish-
October 19, 2020
OCT 19, Toronto ravines: Taylor Creek
October 18, 2020
OCT 18, waterfowl: Caribbean brown pelicans
October 17, 2020
OCT 17, palinku (poetic novelty): fruits #1
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.)
October 16, 2020
OCT 16, wordplay maps: American Scramble-towns 11,12
October 15, 2020
OCT 15, pandemic poetry: preventive cocktails
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pandemic Poetry' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
October 14, 2020
OCT 14, Toronto ravines: Humber River Valley (photocollages #1 and #2)
October 13, 2020
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: beavers (Rod the sculptor)
October 12, 2020
OCT 12, Toronto ravines: salmon run on the Humber
October 11, 2020
OCT 11, Canadiana: Canadian Thanksgiving
Get ready for tomorrow's festivities (by Zoom and other online modalities).