A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic --, 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, although portions of it evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
December 10, 2020
DEC 10, holiday verse: Chanukah, selected by Giorgio
December 9, 2020
DEC 9, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS -- lawsuits
The book title "A Very Stable Genius" has invited a flurry of activity in composing anagrams (word-scrambles) that contribute to the sense of uncontrolled chaos that swirled through the American political scene during the White House administration of 2016 to 2020.
A compendium of Giorgio's wordplay on this topic can be evaluated by reviewing posts on the blog "Edifying Nonsense". An initial listing that displays almost 100 anagrams dealing with a variety of topics (foreign policy, internal political maneuvering, domestic scandals, etc.) can be found here. Subsequently, further anagrams dealing with more specific topics were accumulated in a followup offering here.
The tabulation presented today was inspired by the recent series of lawsuits instigated in state and federal courts to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election.
December 8, 2020
DEC 8, 2020: the origin of our "bloggerel": song-lyrics, poetry, wordplay and photography
SONG LYRICS: Starting in 2011, we had contributed parody song-lyrics to "AmIRight", the most extensive website publishing this type of doggerel on the internet. That website offers authors the advantage of immediate publication, but does not provide editing or post-submission modification. Not surprisingly political and social satire are major elements in AmIRight's table of contents. As I (G.H.) was still personally in sober professional practice at that time, I attributed the submitted works to a pseudonym, and Giorgio Coniglio, a registered practitioner in that field volunteered his writing talents arduously in that regard. After a few years we had contributed some 150 singable entities, but the intense polarization in American society threatened to disrupt the enjoyment previously experienced by AmIRight's cadre of volunteer writers. You can find some of those earlier songs (with familiar tunes, but bizarre lyrics) posted on our current blog "Edifying Nonsense"
December 7, 2020
DEC 7, unusual wildlife: Ontario sightings
December 6, 2020
DEC 6, Ontario nostalgia: art installations
December 5, 2020
DEC 5, trees: cinnamon tree
December 4, 2020
December 3, 2020
December 2, 2020
December 1, 2020
DEC 1, sleek Greek prefixes: DYS-
Authors' Note: Another example of use of this prefix is the medical term dyspareunia. Click HERE to review a verse on this intriguing topic.
November 30, 2020
November 29, 2020
NOV 29, a brief saga: the Acropolis
November 28, 2020
NOV 28, savoir-faire: franglais
November 27, 2020
NOV 27, commercial product: 'Tucket (an e-bucket, or cyber-safe)
November 26, 2020
NOV 26, portraits of couples: turkeys, domestic and wild
November 25, 2020
NOV 25, reptiles: green anoles in the suburbs (photo-collage)
November 24, 2020
NOV 24, waterfowl: great egrets
great egret, stalking slowly |
great egret, striking |
takeoff from railing, Shem Creek Park, Mt Pleasant SC |
November 23, 2020
NOV 23, political palindromes, P
To go BACKWARDS, return to the previous set ('O') on September 13, 2020.
OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST ('A') on this topic on May 14.
November 22, 2020
NOV 22, non-sequitur: professor and madman
November 21, 2020
NOV 21, birdlore: turkeys, desnooded (pre-holiday fling)
November 20, 2020
NOV 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "A LESSON ABOUT REDUPLICATIONS"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
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... in a fallout shelter? |
Some recent lulus – chick flick, boy-toy – marvellous creations.
Some foreign words sound quite absurd, and might be greeted with yuk-yuks,
Like chi-chi, tutu, tête-à -tête, and tse-tse, muu-muu and mukluks.
6) 'Shm-Reduplicates'
And many word-shmords are employed by speaker-shmeakers of Yiddish,
Like fancy-shmancy, choosy-shmoozy, horseradish(mmh!), gefilte-fish.
7) Related Forms e.g. collocation
Tut-tut! for many wild-child words, there's no accord on how they're grouped,
Like fuddle-duddle, Walla Walla, voodoo, wiseguys, hula-hoop.
* German= "off-sound", word coined in the 16th century to indicate a systematic change in the vowel of a word-root to convey a difference in meaning; rhymes with shout
* Hawaiian for quickly or bus !!
9) Add-On: A Singable Lexicon of Reduplicates
See the relevant posts.
November 19, 2020
NOV 19, Toronto ravines: upper East Don valley
November 18, 2020
NOV 18, portraits of couples: broad-headed skinks, llamas
November 17, 2020
NOV 17, Canadiana: urban portaging
From the Archives: An Illustrated E-Mail about Urban Portaging, 2017
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I encountered this on my late afternoon cycle-ride through trendy Rosedale on a rainy autumn afternoon. In its second year,
this festival, I found out, brings together people portaging canoes across a 17 km ancient aboriginal trail between the
Humber and Don watersheds. At this point, the portagers had just crossed the Mt Pleasant Expressway.
You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
November 16, 2020
NOV 16, sleek Greek prefixes: DIA- (and DI-)
Clicking HERE will introduce you to our entire collection of verses about the Greek prefixes!