A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over thirteen hundred unique posts in these four years. Images, both photographic and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from verses, photos and computer-graphics on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense".
December 31, 2020
DEC 31, a brief saga: Hogmanay (Auld Lang's Sine)
December 30, 2020
DEC 30, Canadiana: Haida Gwaii
December 29, 2020
DEC 29, patients and maladies: knee effusion
December 28, 2020
DEC 28, pill-poppin' poems: antimalarial
Or, check this link to the story in the Washington Post.
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
December 27, 2020
DEC 27, 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
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, Ontario nostalgia: art installations
December 19, 2020
DEC 19, wordplay map: 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, Canadiana: joual
December 16, 2020
DEC 16, diagnostic imaging: parathyroid scanning
December 15, 2020
DEC 15, etymology: 'miser'
December 14, 2020
DEC 14, Toronto oases: Art installations
NEWSFLASH !!!
December 13, 2020
DEC 13, wordplay map: r-i-c anagrams #9+#10
December 12, 2020
DEC 12, portraits of couples: domestic geese, dogpark figures
You can view these samples from our portfolio of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
December 11, 2020
DEC 11, American satire(3): 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, spineless verse (invertebrates): centipedes
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy.
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 blogpost of your choice.
December 7, 2020
DEC 7, unusual wildlife: Ontario sightings
December 6, 2020
DEC 6, Toronto ravines: art installations, #2
The sculpture is the work of the renowned Canadian innovator, naturalist and artist William Lishman.
December 5, 2020
DEC 5, trees: cinnamon tree
December 4, 2020
December 3, 2020
December 2, 2020
December 1, 2020
DEC 1, sleek Greek prefixes: DYS-
Authors' Note: Another example of use of this prefix is the medical term dyspareunia. Click HERE to review a verse on this intriguing topic.