A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images, photographic, computer-simulated and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from material grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original, although portions of it evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
May 31, 2022
MAY 31, defining opinion: hamuli (little hooks)
May 30, 2022
MAY 30, (re)duplication: claptrap
Authors' Note: The disparaging term gobbledegook was first used in 1944 by a Texas politician named Maverick (scion of the original staunchly independent thinker). Its meaning — pompous, overinflated language — gave rise a few year later to the equivalent bafflegab. These expressions, employing repetition of sounds, have a musical and amusing quality, as do their venerable synonyms --hogwash, poppycock, balderdash, bunkum and tommyrot, but only their close cousin claptrap (alternately clap-trap) -- would qualify as a reduplication.
May 29, 2022
MAY 29, Ontario nostalgia: commuting by rail
May 28, 2022
MAY 28, Toronto excursion: 'Brickworks', dusk approaching
a midland painted turtle |
May 27, 2022
MAY 27, mythed opportunities: 'Infernal' (Dante's Divine Comedy)
May 26, 2022
MAY 26, reptiles: fence lizards
May 25, 2022
MAY 25, back in Toronto: views in the neighborhood
May 24, 2022
MAY 24, life in Palindrome Valley: organizing the Palindrome Rally
May 23, 2022
MAY 23, toxic vignette: 'mad as a hatter' (the Danbury shakes)
May 22, 2022
MAY 22, palinku (poetic novelty): Dennis's ongoing sin
Toronto: welcome back!
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, the new format 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.
May 21, 2022
MAY 21, Carolina lowcountry: farewell, wildlife!
great egret at a pond in a nearby luxury condo. Watch your step! |
a green (Carolina) anole, on patrol |
Carolina anole at leisure, sunning on our front-yard sago palm |
a handsome southern toad, occasional visitor to our backyard |
brown pelicans strolling after dinner at the neighborhood 'pelicatessen' |
pelican swimming fantasia |
wood stork and Canada goose |
a white ibis sits for a portrait |
May 20, 2022
MAY 20 (2022), singable satire: John Denver sings "INDIANA SONG"
Dark Schemes
Rosenstein
Brennan's Tweet
"Get Me Roger Stone - the Song"
to the tune of "Annie's Song"
A 'sad standard for ... groveling',
Like at cabinet meetings
Where he's 'humbled' by Trump.
Using barbs like 'oleaginous',
Like 'repulsive' and 'toady',
George fills up his column --
His disdain doesn't slump.
Then George targets invective
At Mike's praise for Arpaio,
At a rally in Tempe
Near the home of McCain.
George invokes Mike's 'vocation'
(Servile ingratiation)
And asks voters repudiate
That mob's M.A.G.A.* again.
* Make America Great Again, slogan of the 2016 Republican campaign.
Mike Pence Vice-President 2017- . Previous experience as Republican governor of his home-state of Indiana. Described as 'conspicuously devout' by Will, presumably picked for his current post due to his freedom from financial or lifestyle imbroglios.
John McCain high-profile long-serving senator from Arizona, Republican candidate for President in 2008, struggling with terminal brain cancer at the time of these events.
May 19, 2022
MAY 19, doctors and their practices: ex-hospital chief
May 18, 2022
MAY 18, insects: gnats
May 17, 2022
MAY 17, binomial phrases: "bump and grind"
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and check out the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
May 16, 2022
MAY 16, planet-saving verse: species loss
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May 15, 2022
MAY 15, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): massacre at Mother Emanuel Church
You can review our entire poetic outpouring on this important topic by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.
May 14, 2022
MAY 14, waterfowl: action-photos from Swan Lake / Iris Gardens
mute swan, egg-laden, lumbering |
whooper swan, in a flap |
navigating the ponds |
black swan, takeoff plan canceled |
a posterior flap |
a frontal flap |
black swans in flight |
swans, like this nesting mute couple, spend a lot of time preening themselves |