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.
November 3, 2023
NOV 3r, American satire: conspiracy theories
November 2, 2023
NOV 2, lexicon of word-pairs: repetitive binomials P to Z
Giorgio's lexicon of word pairs (repetitive or echoic binomials)
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
b) Decorative Touches
Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023.
fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks
November 1, 2023
NOV 1, objectionable adjectives: horrible
Authors' Note: Horrible (like its close cousins terrible and frightful) has become a difficult term to define. Originally meaning full of horror, or capable of engendering horror, it can now be applied in two opposing directions.
Grisly, [D]gruesome. they're [E9] terribly [A7]gorable.
Critics, [D]reading at [D7]night,
Can't a[G]void taking [Gm]fright --
With Thanks[E9]giving-fest sweeter than [A7]honey.
Critics [D]won't be an[D7]noyed;
They'll de[G]light, over[Gm]joyed
At my [D]verse they'll term [A7]"horribly [D]funny".
October 30, 2023
OCT 30, singable satire: "POLYVINYL for MILLENIA"
ORIGINAL SONG: "Carolina in the Morning" written 1922, best-known version is performed by Al Jolson.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "POLYVINYL for MILLENIA" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
POLYVINYL for MILLENIA
(to the tune of "Carolina in the Morning")
What could be more drastic than our seas awash in plastic for millenia?
Plastic junk accumulates and traps or blocks the GI tracts of fauna.
Landfills are offenders; poly-bags wind blown,
Threatening fragile creatures in the intertidal zone.
Astronauts can even spot them from their place in space; up there, they're showing.
If we had Aladdin's lamp and only one wish,
We'd ask, not me, but seals, whales and fish -
Every Jane and Michael, it's not hard, so please recycle all your pla-a-astic.
What could be more drastic than our seas awash in plastic for millenia?
Particles accumulate, then hydrocarbons degradate in fauna.
Population's highest, polluting near the shore.
Altering constitution of the worldwide ocean floor.
Seasoning our seafood and inciting crude reactions that are final.
If we had Aladdin's lamp and only one wish,
We'd ask, not me, but seals, whales and fish,
October 29, 2023
OCT 29r, death and the afterlife: ghostbusting equipment
October 28, 2023
OCT 28, decorative touches: "Tulip Fields" (fabric art)
fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks
October 27, 2023
OCT 27r, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023.
October 26, 2023
OCT 26, decorative touches: Shem Creek vista (fabric art)
fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks
October 25, 2023
OCT 25, Submitted Palindromes: F, targeted at "NO 'X' IN 'NIXON' "
October 24, 2023
OCT 24: decorative touches: Lowcountry Scene
October 23, 2023
OCT 23r, gruesome verse: untimely demise
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 25, gruesome verse: untimely demise
Hallowe'en is sneaking up on us!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
b) Decorative Touches
fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks
October 22, 2023
OCT 22, postal places, Canada: Deseronto, ON
October 21, 2023
OCT 21, fabric art, diptych
October 20, 2023
OCT 20, singable satire: Leonard Cohen sings "DANTE VIEWS the PAIN OF LUST" (Canto 5b)
ORIGINAL POEM: "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad, "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.
ORIGINAL SONG: "Dance Me To The End Of Love", Leonard Cohen, 1984.
Inferno Canto#5b:
had letched
Buffeted like winter starlings by the smiting wind
Classical and literary lovers felled by Lust
Cleopatra, Semiramis, figures he knew well,
Tossing on the winds of Hell
Tossing on the winds of Hell.
Dante feels great pity for a thousand tortured shades
Time-out from their endless flight
Dante felt the pain of lust.
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina Cai...
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Cai..
Gianciotto ( or Giovanni the lame) - disparaging nickname for Giovanni Malatesta
Caina - a pit in the lowest ring of Hell reserved for those who have committed treachery and violence against family members (named after Cain, Abraham's son)
Italy in the late Medieval Period |