a mud-laden painted turtle |
A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over seventeen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- 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.
May 5, 2023
MAY 5, excursions: meanwhile, back in the great outdoors ...
May 4, 2023
MAY 4, homophonous verse: (hippo's) hip replacement
Author's Note: Hip replacement has become a surgical procedure that is frequently performed in humans, and is making inroads into veterinary practice in dogs and cats. Its role in jungle creatures and zoo inhabitants remains to be developed, parenthetically.
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.
May 3, 2023
MAY 3, "pictures at a renovation": third week
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
hall towards LR |
LR (stack of wallboard) |
kitchen |
den entrance |
new office space |
studio (stack of flooring) |
May 2, 2023
May 1, 2023
MAY 1, magical palindromes: examples #21 - #25
You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled Magical Palindromes: a compendium".
April 30, 2023
APR 30, singable satire: "ADENOMA", a pair-ody
ORIGINAL SONG#2. "Buona Sera", Louis Prima, 1956
(to the tune of "Mona Lisa")
What strange factors make you spurn control and grow?
But your schemes don’t require exploration,
They’re revealed by needle aspiration.
Or just an irksome Neoplasia’s little bro?
Adenoma, Adeno-o-ma.
(to the tune of "Buona Sera")
I’ve engaged a surgeon trained in ENT.
In the morning, he’ll resect you from your bed there
You’ll be sliced and spread on slides for full review;
And my mouth-droop from that nerve you’ve cruelly damaged -
With its fibers freed, my smile might yet be salvaged.
Sayonara, Adenoma, kiss me goodbye.
Hasta maƱana, Adenoma; kiss me goodbye.
April 29, 2023
APR 29, exemplification: hillbilly
April 28, 2023
APR 28, defining opinion: cruddy
Authors' Note: Trudy's definition seems to be skewed towards the achievement of cruddiness, downplaying inherent or intrinsic cruddiness. We await further reports.
April 27, 2023
APR 27, photo-analysis: flight of the great blue heron
links for any date on this blog: 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 post of your choice.
April 26, 2023
APR 26, "pictures at a renovation": the second week
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
front hall |
kitchen |
LR |
DR |
den |
master bath (shower construction underway) |
April 25, 2023
APR 25, Submitted Palindromes: Introduction to presenters -- Ed, the Derailed Liar
April 24, 2023
APR 24, urban concerns: aged street tree
April 23, 2023
APR 23, doctors and their practices: neighbourhood analyst (capsaicin)
April 22, 2023
APR 22, poetic non-sequitur: hope for victims of bullying
Authors' Note: We attended an inspiring book launch this afternoon.
Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an unusual assortment of odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.
April 21, 2023
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: a peek at elephant seals
Reminiscence from a year ago (somehow this didn't get posted back then):
What we got to see at AƱo Nuevo State Park on our April '22 trip was a mass of seal pups, who had been heavily fed by their mothers and then abandoned on the beach, while the mothers swim out to sea as usual on their long and lonely migration. The pups spend a lot of time sleeping off their recent huge intake of food, and after a few months make their own way, eventually, into the sea where they somehow cope with doing their own life-adventure, learning to swim, hunt and eventually to relocate their home beach, all miraculously without guidance.
It would be great to return in late fall to see the older males, who weigh up to 5000 pounds, when they return for annual breeding.
You can review a whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !
April 20, 2023
APR 20, singable satire: Elton John sings "DANTE's SONG" (Inferno, Canto 1a)
PARODY-LYRICS
"Dark Wood" detail of Dore engraving |
"Dante nella Selva" W.Blake |
April 19, 2023
APR 19, American satire (prolongation): obstruction of justice
Author's Note:
April 18, 2023
APR 18, "pictures at a renovation": reconstruction begins
Yesterday, the project entered a new chapter in forward progress: At least in some rooms, the putting-together stage has begun. This started with the front hall and kitchen, applying levelling cement over the underlying concrete slabs in preparation for tiling in the kitchen and hardwood installation in the front hall. The den remains the site of intense removal of 'popcorn ceiling'.
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
front hall (watch your step!) (wet levelling cement in place) |
kitchen |
LR/DR |
LR, ready for some refinishing |
den, ongoing intense ceiling restoration |
April 17, 2023
APR 17, palinku (poetic novelty): London (UK and Ontario)
palinku |