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 (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
November 1, 2021
NOV 1, palinku (poetic novelty): potatoes
October 31, 2021
OCT 31, three gruesome verses for Halloween
October 30, 2021
OCT 30, Carolina lowcountry: wildlife revisited#2
little blue heron |
Atlantic ghost crab |
brown pelican, artistic rendering |
cormorants and dolphin |
roseate spoonbills, Deweese Island |
sanderling |
willet |
yellow-crowned night heron |
busy sanderlings, Sullivan's island |
October 29, 2021
OCT 29, waterfowl: hooded merganser
October 28, 2021
OCT 28, Carolina lowcountry: wildlife revisited#1
October 27, 2021
OCT 27, domestic hazards: fatbergs
October 26, 2021
OCT 26, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #11 and #12
Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams, i.e. letter scrambles, is P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S. We have taken advantage of that property to create this unique series of wordplay maps of imaginary American (and Canadian) locales, each one completed by its official two-letter state (or provincial) abbreviation.
October 25, 2021
OCT 25, Toronto ravines: Todmorden Mills
October 24, 2021
OCT 24, binomial phrases: "a hug and a kiss"
October 23, 2021
OCT 23, gruesome verses: two horrific quandaries for Hallowe'en
Hallowe'en is creeping up on us!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
October 22, 2021
October 21, 2021
OCT 21, poems of Nuclear Medicine: Shakespeare's 'As We Nuke It'
October 20, 2021
OCT 20 (2021), singable satire: Hoagy Carmichael sings "STAR-NOSED MOLE"
PARODY-LYRICS
Star-nosed mole – I fail to grasp your charms -
October 18, 2021
OCT 18, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the cock'
October 17, 2021
OCT 17, variant Nantucket limerick: moeurs of Nantucket
October 16, 2021
OCT 16, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #9 and #10
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
October 15, 2021
OCT 15, neologism (personal): POTUSA (abuelita latina)
October 14, 2021
OCT 14, English literature survey course: "The Raven" (Poe's poem)
October 13, 2021
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: batty idioms
Authors' Note: BATS, the flying mammals, are found in many idioms, which mostly give them unfavorable press, including: