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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 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.
April 27, 2024
APR 27, waterfowl: flight of the great blue heron
April 26, 2024
APR 26, trees: gnarling
a) reprise from April 2020:
APR 26, trees: gnarling
April 25, 2024
APR 25, Carolina lowcountry wildlife: continuation
A continuation from the post of April 18
processing the morning's catch |
the "pelicatessen" reopens for lunch |
Henrietta poses for a formal portrait |
another five-lined skink |
tractor-seat plant |
snowy egret, afternoon fishing |
sediment balls, intertidal zone, sign of crabs' feeding activity. |
fiddler crab, carrying food, sandy edge of brackish marsh at low tide |
glossy privet hedge in bloom |
great blue heron, in crepuscular light |
sunset view from the boardwalk |
April 24, 2024
APR 24, scopes of medicine: endoscopic spectrum
a) reprise from April 2020
APR 24, scopes of medicine: endoscopic spectrum
April 23, 2024
APR 23, American satire (prolongation): obstruction of justice
Author's Note:
April 22, 2024
APR 22, boating: kayaking at Shem Creek
a) reprise from April 2020:
APR 22, boating: kayaking at Shem Creek
Start of the 'maiden voyage', 2015 (archival photo per RCH) |
April 21, 2024
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: star-nosed mole
a) reprise from 2020
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: star-nosed mole
April 20, 2024
APR 20 (2024), singable patter-satire: "The UNIQUENESS OF NUCLEAR"
Tom Lehrer, parodist |
An earlier version of this particular song was first web-published in 2013 on the site "AmIRight" under the title "Residents and Presidents". It has now been extensively updated for presentation to you, our favorite readers.
Singable Introduction:
There was a swarm of parodists who pounced straight for the jugular;
I toiled for several decades in the Section known as "NUCLEAR";
And endless adjectival terms in Med'cine and Biology
So, clearly there's no stimulus for apparatus cochlear,
April 19, 2024
APR 19, postal places, USA: Hoboken, NJ
At one fell swoop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !
April 18, 2024
APR 18, this week's Carolina lowcountry wildlife
green anole, on backyard fence |
Henrietta, the sociable great egret, at Shem Creek boardwalk |
"Blue-tailed skink", the origin of that common name is obvious here; (juvenile five-lined skinks and broad-headed skinks have a similar appearance) |
a weight-lifting skink |
foraging nocturnal opossum captured in our porch light |
Henrietta watching kayakers |
"Hop to it" (on one leg), peculiar habit of many shorebirds |
African iris (floral break from all the fauna) |
pelican flight |
April 17, 2024
APR 17, homophonous verse: self-indulgence
You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables -- in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE.
April 16, 2024
APR 16, classic palindrome: 'Do geese see God?'
a) reprise from April 2020
APR 16, classic palindrome: "Do geese see God?"
web-photo Plato (portrait bust) sculptor: Silanion 370 B.C.E. |
April 15, 2024
APR 15, selected OEDILFian verse: "identity verse" (G.Coniglio editor)
For a different take, you could check out Giorgio's collection of "homophonous" (identity) rhymes by clicking HERE.