FEB 30, (29b), singable satire: homage to Ed Burtynsky "VIEW OF EARTH"

 a) Reprise of material posted on February 29b/28c in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, w-i-p (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Palace of Malice (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Palace of Malice (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Let's Do It (guest parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 29b, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "The Book of Love", 1999 by Monotones; best known cover by Peter Gabriel 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013.

PHOTOS: Edward Burtynsky website

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With the recent book “Water” and film “Watermark”, Edward Burtynsky (“Manufactured Landscapes”) has used aerial photography to further document extensive degradation of our planet’s water-resource. As Burtynsky brings a Canadian sensitivity to the issue, I have used a few French words in these lyrics. eaux, water (pl) and haut, high, are pronounced as ‘oh’. autrui, others, and  ouïe, ouch!  rhyme with ‘see’.

VIEW OF EARTH  

(to the tune of "The Book of Love")

To view our Earth is disconcerting;

Dammed place may land up dry as bones;

With overuse and exponential

Expansion of industrial zones.

But,  eyes high I spy ......
Icefloes’ demise from polar seas;

And eaux-----oh those emotive

Haut-photos of Burty-ynsky’s!

Ice-caps dislodging, likely toasted;

Will flood the coastlines, raise the seas;

Less rain on heights, our food-stores threatened; 

Our stewardship’s a travesty.

Water-woes….. we owe to no one

Only ourselves, not autrui;
Ouïe! unwilling eyes we open

Edward’s lament-landscapes we see.

Parched Colorado River delta

Flow diverted – raise some herds –

Fish and amphibians find no shelter; 

Plundered profits, pain deferred.

Manufactured western suburbs,

Life floats on dwindling aquifers;

Next door the ancient ghostly remnants

Of cultures faltered, disappeared.

And drought------ no doubt about it

We’re drifting to that turn of things.

What clout .....   to save our offspring ?

 - Cherish each drop that wetting wrings.

Our leaders opt for obfuscation
A short-term outlook is obscene-

A final geologic  e - ra;

Warm welcome to Anthropocene !

And whoa! ….... those emotive

Views captured by Burty-ynsky!
Decry .…..... and why not try

Avoid our man-made destiny ?

(Rit.)
 The news from Earth is disconcerting………….

FEB 29, photo-collage: views from the Carolina lowcountry

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 29/28b in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, unusual wildlife (photo-collage)
2021: gun control verse, the hitman (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, moonshine whiskey (illustrated poem)
2023: American satire, grift (poem)

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Giorgio (on the left) with
Pete the Plastic Pelican
in the Carolina lowcountry

b) Today's Offering (Feb 29, 2024): 

boardwalk at Shem Creek, Mt. Pleasant SC

Carolina anole, napping in our backyard

longleaf pine, re-establishing itself
on an old rice plantation

Carnival cruise

political perturbation

allee of moss-covered live oak trees,
 lining an old road at a rice plantation

pelican, skimming surface of the creek

a small boat tries to imitate the pelican

                                                  

 

FEB 28, Olympic sport: volleyball, tennis

   a) Reprise of material posted on February 28 in previous years ...

2020: pandemic verse, Kermit's prediction (illustrated poem)
2021: new world palindromes, #36 (wordplay map)
2022: Canadiana, snow-biota (illustrated poem)
2023: urban concerns, elevator reluctance (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 28, 2024): 

Olympic Sport

volleyball

tennis, singles 

FEB 27, what's up? honk (geese in formation)

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 27 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 2 (wordplay map)
2021: anagrams, US scramble-towns, 14 (wordplay map)
2022:  anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 4 (wordplay map) 

2023: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 16 (wordplay map)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 27, 2024): 

 

Author's Note: The author is thinking here of wild geese, like the Canada goose, taking a more favorable view than he did in an earlier verse that you can find HERE. The V-formation is characteristic of, but not unique to, flights of their flocks.

Readers can review our growing collection of illustrated verses assembled under the rubric "What's Up?" by clicking HERE.

FEB 26, chemical states: Canadian provinces and territories

 

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You, members of the audience of Daily Illustrated Nonsense, (D.I.N.), often have questions about the authors of this blog, and the purpose, history and organization of our online e-manations. To help answer these puzzlements, we have scrawled some material on the undated PAGES section of this blog. Please review these 'documents', although some remain under development. Although expansion of these explanations is contemplated, we admit to taking our time to write down what seems natural to us, but more outreach with this type of communication is planned.

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2) Content of the blog, and its Historical Development

3) Distribution of Thematic Material

4) How Can I Contribute? (under construction)

a) Reprise of material posted on February 26 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, garden-tour docent (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, EX-PRESIDENTIAL (illustrated poem) 
2022: Palindrome Valley, Nauruan, second language (poem)
2023: handyman's lesson, restoring old greenhouse (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 26, 2024): 

 You can view the collection of posts on this topic with this link to our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- click HERE.

FEB 25, submitted palindromes, RANDOM PILES 43

 a) Reprise of material posted on February 25 in previous years ...

2020: submitted palindromes, participant-pals 1 (wordplay)
2021: submitted palindromes, random piles 7 (wordplay)
2022: submitted palindromes, random piles 19 (wordplay)
2023: submitted palindromes, random piles 31 (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 25, 2024): 

 

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. The personal profiles for each of these contributors are displayed in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in monthly random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

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Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.  

FEB 24, American satire (prolongation): gov by dopes (Nikki Haley rally)

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 24 in previous years ...

2020: canal verses, St-Martin, the Paris canal (illustrated poem)
2021: Greek prefixes, endo- (poem) 
2022: defining opinion, academically (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, T. Eliot's Toilet (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 24, 2024): 

 We hope that you enjoyed this verse, concocted just in time for the South Carolina primary election.  You can find dozens more on this topic in 9 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

c) current political turmoil, US version 

polling station for SC Republican primary,
all quiet (2024) 

,

FEB 23, birdlore: eastern bluebird (frontal close-up)

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 23 in previous years ...

2020: insects, fire ants (illustrated poem)
2021: literature survey course, pass / fail (poem) 
2022: reprehensible history, cantankerous leaders (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials E to K (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 23, 2024): 

 current birdie-pic

bluebird, another frontal close-up

FEB 22, Carolina lowcountry: a) elegant oyster-roast, b) garden-tour docents

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 22 in previous years ...

2020: bottom-line humor, gastrointestinal pact (poem)
2021: amphibians, green tree frogs (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, schadenfreude/deserved (poem)
2023: signs of confusion, third collection (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 22, 2024): 

 oyster-roast nostalgia 

     

Elegant table service at an outdoor charity event:
 Steamed oyster clusters

 garden tour docents 

FEB 21, birdlore, Blue Jays' mascot

   a) Reprise of material posted on February 21 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, revision of NAFTA (poem)
2021: pandemic poetry, 2 contagiously funny verses (poems) 
2022: trace minerals and vitamins, vit A deficiency (poem)
2023: dental feelings, cavities (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 21, 2024): 

 birdie-pic (from last summer) 

blue jay

FEB 20, singable satire: "NIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR MUKLUKS" -- Kokomo revisited

a) Reprise of material posted on February 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, Trailerparky (parody-lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Mary Poppins "Formulaic ..." (parody lyrics) 

2022: singable satire, Mergerwocky (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Dark Schemes (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 20, 2024):  SINGABLE SATIRE

PASTICHE of 2 ORIGINAL SONGS: a 'pair-ody'

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:

Recipient Song (music): "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover", Paul Simon, 1975.

Invading Song (lyrics): words and themes borrowed liberally from "Kokomo" 1988, as performed by the Beach Boys.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February, 2015. 

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Imagine that Paul Simon sang about a mid-winter escape to the Beach Boys' mythic Caribbean destination of Kokomo. 

NIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR MUKLUKS

(to the tune of "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover")

“Your problem is worsened by this nasty winter freeze,

Let's get away to moonlit nights off the Florida Keys.

We’ll defy gravity, perfect our chemistry;

There are some nifty ways to leave your mukluks”.

She said, “Escape it all for a great place to go.

And by jet we’ll get way down there fast, then we can take it slow,

Everybody knows a dreamy place like Kokomo –

There are some nifty ways to leave your mukluks.”

Nifty ways to leave your mukluks.

All-inclu’ in Aru’, Lou

Bake in Jamaic’, Jake

A month in Bermud’, dude

Just get ourselves warm.

Few weeks in Baham’, Sam,

Don’t need lots of lead-time,

Mellow Montego, Joe

No snow – Largo Key.

       

Feel mystique -  Martinique, Zeke
Glimpse Port-au-Prince, Vince

Survey Montserrat, Matt

Bodies in hot sand.

Lounge in St Kitts, Fritz

Rhythm of a steel-drum band

Hop bars in Negril, Bill

And get yourself tanned.

She said, “It peeves me so, car battery has died.

And our street has not been plowed so all you’d do is slip and slide."

I said ”Snow day -  there’s little open, so nowhere else to ride –

Back to those nifty ways.”

She said, “Let’s try a snowy afternoon delight

Then we could drink some hot toddies and dream of those tropic nights.”

And because I kept on shivering, I called to book a flight,

I yearned for nifty ways to leave my mukluks.

Tour the bay by kayak, Jack

Get a new tan, Stan

Cruise to St Croix, Roy

Get keen on Holguín.

Surf Los Cabos, Gus

Don’t need skates or puck much

Explore cays and keys, Lee

mukluks -  seldom thought of
 as sensuous

Just pack your sun-screen.

Scuba-dive off Arub’, Stu

Flake in Jamaic’, Jake

Swim nude in Bermud’, dude

Live what Beach Boys sing.

On lam in Baham’, Sam,

No need to trudge slush much

Just toke in Mo'Bay, mam'

A 'Kokomo' fling.