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.
August 12, 2023
AUG 12, portraits of couplles: wild turkeys
August 11, 2023
AUG 11, exotic destinations: air travel
August 10, 2023
AUG 10, a brief saga (creative anachronism): herbicides
August 9, 2023
AUG 9, poets' corner: wit's end
You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner". Click HERE.
Current birdie-pic
a snowy egret, fishing near the old bridge |
August 8, 2023
AUG 8, American satire (prolongation): criminal lying
August 7, 2023
August 6, 2023
AUG 6, amphibians: early morning beach chorus (green tree frogs)
August 5, 2023
AUG 5, Submitted Palindromes: A, targeted at "A MAN, A PLAN... -- PANAMA"
August 4, 2023
AUG 4, Carolina lowcountry, day's end in historic Charleston
August 3, 2023
AUG 3, lexicon of word-pairs: reduplications, M to Sh-
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to C.H.!
Matching the selection on the above slides, these include .....
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
Matching the selection on the above slide, these include "Kickin' Chicken".
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
August 2, 2023
AUG 2, ambulatory verse: hover
August 1, 2023
AUG 1, ballet at Toronto's Harbourfront: still photos
Here are the NBC dancers warming up. |
A great venue, just lakeside of Toronto's renowned CN Tower! |
The programme, "Sharing the Stage" included other innovative groups, like this West African-troupe. |
Nearby, the Rogers' Dome (home of the BlueJays), lit up as evening comes on. |
A pas-de-deux from "Evernew" |
For "action clips" from these performances, click HERE.
July 30, 2023
JUL 30, singable satire: Julie Andrew sings "JEUX-DE-MOTS" from the musical "The Sound of Homonyms"
PARODY-LYRICS, continuing from our prior blog-post of May 30, 2023.
Père (pair) -- for two adopting Dads
Frère (fray-er)-- a nearly worn-out Bro
Soeur (sewer) -- big Sis with mouth that's bad
Chat (shah) -- our middle-Eastern cat
Tante (taunt) -- Ma's sibling who's a tease
Bébé (bay-BAY) -- Brest is where he's at:
Partie (par-TEE)/part of our famille (fa-MEE).
Mère, père, frère, soeur, chat, tante, famille !
July 29, 2023
JUL 29, mammalian wildlife: "selfie with bison"
Authors' Note: It's hard to believe that there was a 'responsible driver' who let this young person out of the car to take this picture (isolated from a published video), but there you are.
In national parks in both Canada and the United States, there are fines imposed for approaching wildlife too closely, and signage usually makes this abundantly clear.
A verse, and more pictures of the American bison (buffalo), can be found on this post.
July 28, 2023
JUL 28, lexicon of word-pairs: reduplications H to L
Matching the selection on the above slide, these include "hanky-panky", "harum-scarum", "heeby-jeebies", "helter-skelter", "hillbilly", "hobo", and "hocus-pocus".
Matching the selection on the second slide, these include "hoi polloi" , "holus-bolus", "hotspot" and "hubba-hubba".
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
July 27, 2023
JUL 27, Carolina lowcountry: sundown at Shem Creek
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July 26, 2023
JUL 26, creative anachronism: heavenly host