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 3, 2023
December 2, 2023
DEC 2, defining opinion: hole #1
December 1, 2023
* DEC 1, sleek Greek prefixes: DYS-
reprise from December 2020
November 30, 2023
* NOV 30, holidays and celebrations -- Advent #1
November 29, 2023
NOV 29, postal places, Canada: Whistler, BC
Prior to European settlement, the site was the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations. Trappers and prospectors were gradually attracted, but completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 provided easy access from Vancouver, and brought logging and escalating tourism. The resort-city is named for the call of the hoary marmot, a ground squirrel dwelling at high elevations. The Whistler-Blackcomb area served as a major venue for "Vancouver 2010", the twenty-first Olympic Winter Games.
November 28, 2023
* NOV 28, savoir-faire -- franglais
reprise from November 2020
NOV 28, savoir-faire: franglais
November 27, 2023
NOV 27, defining opinions: Haversian canals
November 26, 2023
* NOV 26, portraits of couples -- turkeys
November 25, 2023
NOV 25, pinkos (forward thinkers): the Communist Church
November 24, 2023
* NOV 24, invertebrates -- chelipods
reprise from November 2020
NOV 24, spineless verse (invertebrates): chelipods
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.
November 23, 2023
NOV 23, palinku: global warming
In this post, we continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form 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).
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.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this ilk have continued to accumulate. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
November 22, 2023
* NOV 22, birdlore -- desnooded
reprise from November 2020
NOV 21, birdlore: turkeys, desnooded (pre-holiday fling)
November 21, 2023
November 20, 2023
* NOV 20, a-very-stable-genius --- 'Never Concede'
reprise from November 2020
NOV 20, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS -- 'Never Concede!'
November 19, 2023
November 18, 2023
* NOV 18, portraits of couples -- broad-headed skinks, llamas
reprise from November 2020
November 17, 2023
* NOV 17, Canadiana - urban portaging
reprise from November 17, 2020
NOV 17, Canadiana: urban portaging
From the Archives: An Illustrated E-Mail about Urban Portaging, 2017
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I encountered this on my late afternoon cycle-ride through trendy Rosedale on a rainy autumn afternoon. In its second year,
this festival, I found out, brings together people portaging canoes across a 17 km ancient aboriginal trail between the
Humber and Don watersheds. At this point, the portagers had just crossed the Mt Pleasant Expressway.
November 16, 2023
* NOV 16, sleek Greek prefixes -- DIA- or DI-
November 15, 2023
NOV 15, wordplay map: renamed US state capitals (western)
We presume that there are others out there who have found that the names of the US state capital cities are a chore to remember. So, here's a practical application of wordplay with anagrams!
We might eventually do the eastern US states, so stay tuned (but be patient).
November 14, 2023
* NOV 14, pandemic poetry -- social distancing
reprise from November 2020
NOV 14, pandemic poetry: social distancing
November 13, 2023
NOV 13, defining opinion: honk
Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
November 12, 2023
* NOV 12, Toronto ravines-- art installations #1`
reprise from November 2020
November 11, 2023
NOV 11, waterfowl: feral ducks
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'.
November 10, 2023
* NOV 10, bi-lyrical verse -- 'a poet and his bros'
reprise from November 2020
NOV 10, bi-lyrical limerick: 'a poet and his bros'
November 9, 2023
NOV 9, defining opinions: hoarding (construction)
November 8, 2023
* NOV 8, Ontario nostalgia -- fallen leaves
reprise from November 2020
NOV 8, Ontario nostalgia: fallen leaves
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Toronto's Rosedale Valley, from the Sherbourne Street bridge |
November 7, 2023
NOV 7, defining opinion: hover
November 6, 2023
* NOV 6, r-i-c- anagrams: wordplay maps #7 and #8
reprise from November 2020
NOV 6, wordplay map: r-i-c anagrams #7+#8