FEB 16, postal places, Canada: La Tuque, QC

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 16 in previous years ...

2020: non-sequitur, epistaxis (poem)
2021: classic palindromes, O Stone, be not so. (illustrated poem) 
2022: inspired by DrJJ, that old Yitz (illustrated poem)
2023: mythed opportunities, ELeda and the swan (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 16, 2024): 

Authors' Note:  QC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Quebec, in which La Tuque, population 11,000, is situated beside the St-Maurice River, 170 km (105 miles) north of the Saint Lawrence. The town's iconically shaped low mountain, resulting in its name (Fr. tuque is a soft wool hat), was partly destroyed in construction of a hydro-electric installation 80 years ago.

In each of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, administrative rearrangements resulted in a handful of "cities" and "regional municipalities" with extensive areas that had low population densities, contrary to the usual expectation for urban centres. In this regard La Tuque heads up the pack, its central town surrounded by a vast forested area of 28,000 km² giving it a population density of 0.4/km², compared to Montreal, QC, and Quebec City, QC, with densities of 2,700 and 1,600/km² respectively.

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FEB 15, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #4

  a) Review of material posted on February 15 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #7 (wordplay maps)
2021: anagram swarm, INCITED-A- RIOT (wordplay maps) 
2022: poets' corner, poet's family (poem)
2023: signs of confusion, second collection (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 15, 2024): 

  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. Their profiles are indicated 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", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in 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).

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

FEB 14, holidays and celebrations: solicitation of love

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 14 in previous years ...

2020: holidays and celebrations, romance and calamari (illustrated poem)
2021: neologism, personal, electile dysfunction (illustrated poem) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, consolation provided by Nature (photo-collage)
2023: non-sequitur, decolletage (poem, co-authored)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 14, 2024): 

"The Kiss" by Auguste Rodin, marble, 1882
(photo by G.C. at Rodin Museum, Paris, 2019)

 current scene: Valentine's Day Solicitation (the young lady's hand-made sign notifies rush-hour drivers on the adjacent bridge, "I love you".)

FEB 13, birdfeeder action-photos: house sparrow

  a) Review of material posted on February 13 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindromes, Never odd or even. (illustrated poem)
2021: old world palindromes, #15 (wordplay maps) 
2022: commercial product, Smart GardenGnome (illustrated poem)
2023: homophonous verse, identity rhymes (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 13, 2024): 

house sparrow

FEB 12, portraits of couples: emus

 

  a) Review of material posted on February 12 in previous years ...

2020: magical palindromes, examples 6 to 10 (wordplay)
2021: classic palindromes, Dennis sinned. (illustrated poem) 
2022: portraits of couples, frogs (photo folio)
2023: portrait of couples, mallard ducks (photo folio)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 12, 2024): 

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FEB 11, birdlore: bluebird at your window (despite window protection)

 a) Review of material posted on February 11 in previous years ...

2020: garden intruders, common moles (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindromes, Dennis sinned. (illustrated poem)
2022: at heart, Jack Sprat and his bypass grafts (poem)
2023: cinematic guide, "Sawn with the Gust" (illustrated poem)

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American white ibis
in Florida swamp

b) Today's Offering (Feb 11, 2024): 

bluebird window strikes
resumed  despite marker installation.
intentional, maladapted behaviour?

bluebird silhouette

FEB 10, singable satire: an old folk-song "TRAILERPARKY"

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 10 in previous years ...

2020: trees, sabal palmettos, (poem - 'brief saga')
2021: bottom-line humor, gastro-esophageal reflux (poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: inspired by Ogden Nash, a gnat and a nit (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: Canadiana, Newfoundland potato famine (poem - 'brief saga')

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 10, 2024): 

PASTICHE, including  PARODY-LYRICS:  (Pastiche implies the use of several sources,  even several art-forms, as a vehicle for the parody)

ORIGINAL SONG: "Greensleeves", traditional. 

ORIGINAL POEMS: Lyrics are based in part on the poems "Jabberwocky"1871, Lewis Carroll for stanza 1-8, and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"1819, John Keats, for stanza 9. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2001 and 2014. 


You can view these lyrics and commentary displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Trailerparky"

The protagonist of this pseudo-medieval tale acted as treasurer of a de facto condominium involving 25 cottage properties at the northern edge of Lake Erie, in the Township of Malahide (yes!). Drama developed when the owner of a large adjacent shorefront property, under financial duress, threatened to sell a portion of his land (which included a sizable 'frog-pond') for a trailerpark development.

The traditional tune "Greensleeves"

TRAILERPARKY

( to the tune of "Greensleeves")

'Twas April, and the faulty stoves

Were piled beside the sagging gate;

All fish-flied were the poplar groves,

 With plumbing opened late.

Carroll and Alice Lidell
(fanciful portrait)

"Beware the Trailerpark, my son!

The johns that flush! porch swings that glide!

Beware E. coli counts, and shun

Approvious Malahide !"

At 'condo, sort-of' heads they shook:

Long floating loan-forms he prepares - 

So co-signed he, with the Private Three

At the Bank of M upstairs.

And as the roadway bills he paid

Erie-storms the clay did shift.

The drained Cement-and-Gravel Way

Lay rubbled ' neath the cliff.

  

Back tax! back tax! the Feds they forced

The neighbour's plans deflated twice !

He played his hand, and copped the land

At a freshly garnished price. 

And hast thou bought the Marshy-Flats ?

Come to the Tuck-Shop brunch !", they voice.

"Mosquito breeds, O Noxious Weeds !

But we have no other choice."  

'Twas August, and the slant-cut poles

 Were tied and turgid by the gate:

 All pansied were the Old-road's holes,

 Clay cliffs, west of the site of the story

 And the levy-cheques post-date.

By autumn, at the condo's shore

Did tires the tree-drift beach retread;

All frogsy was OUR pond, and for 

The moment books out-red.

 And this is why few snowbird here,

 Valve-closed or winter-watering,

 'Though sludge is filtered from the lake,

 And no bugs sting.

Lake Erie cliffs, looking west

La Belle Dame
 Sans Merci

FEB 9, birdlore: window-strikes

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 a) Reprise of material posted on February 9 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, tribute to a Senator (wordplay map)
2021: old world palindromes, #13 (wordplay maps) 
2022: exotic destinations, Hawaii vs. Haida Gwaii (illustrated poem)
2023: culinary verse, caponata (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 9, 2024): 

Giorgio (on the left) with
Pete the Plastic Pelican

Other Canadian retirees

At the harbor,
Mt. Pleasant SC

Lunch: Heron-herring?
No! That's a great egret with a shrimp

lowcountry pizza-boxes

b) current birdie-pic

window-strike by persistent bluebird: frontal view

FEB 8, OEDILFian limericks: W-I-P

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 8 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #5 (wordplay)
2021: American satire, greetings to Senator Hawley (poem)

2022: reminiscence, limericks by Dr JJ (poems, various) 
2023: inspired by Ogden Nash, rehash of The Purist (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 8, 2024): pending

FEB 7, palinku (poetic novelty): W-I-P

a) Reprise of material posted on February 7 in previous years ...

2020: poets' corner, depressed limericist (poem)
2021: at heart, heart block (illustrated poem) 
2022: gun control verse, concealed carry (poem)
2023: at heart, hypertension (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 7, 2024): pending 

FEB 6, birdfeeder action-photos: downy woodpecker

a) Reprise of material posted on February 6 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, Shipping News (photo peculiarity)
2021: old world palindromes, #11 (wordplay maps) 
2022: binomial phrases, flora and fauna (illustrated poem)
2023: objectionable adjective, histonomical (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 6, 2024): 

current birdie-pic

downy woodpecker

  

FEB 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #3

 a) Reprise of material posted on February 5 in previous years ...

2020: savoir-faire, Gallicisms (poem)
2021: death and the afterlife, last breath (poem) 
2022: reptiles, brown (Bahaman) anoles (illustrated poem)
2023: higher connections, wannabe autocrat (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 5, 2024): 

  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. Their profiles are indicated 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", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in 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).

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.