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.
April 27, 2022
APR 27, planet-saving verse: clean coal
April 26, 2022
APR 26, waterfowl: more tranquil views from Swan Lake / Iris Gardens
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cypress 'knees' abound at the edge of the swamp |
black swan, approaching feeder |
turtles particularly enjoy the sunny day |
"take my advice" |
black swan couple, female nesting |
whooper swan, outstretched wings |
"Y'all come back tomorrow for some more." |
April 25, 2022
APR 25, waterfowl: swans at Swan Lake, SC
waterfowl flotilla Black (Australian) swans, Canada geese, et al. |
See the post of Feb 21, 2021 on this blog for an illustrated verse about the mute swan.
See this blogpost for Giorgio's recent poetic take on the trumpeter swan.
April 24, 2022
APR 24, Carolina lowcountry: beach re-engineering
links for any date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your year and then month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.
April 23, 2022
APR 23, binomial phrases: 'hem and haw'
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and check out the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE ! (Or, if you prefer, you could look over this stuff on Giorgio's Facebook photo-albums.)
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
chocolate matzoh pieces (B's Pesach recipe) See you next year! |
April 22, 2022
APR 22, pill-poppin' poems: oral hypoglycemics (anti-diabetic pills)
April 21, 2022
APR 21, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, a trio of verses
In this post, we continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes') which you can review by clicking HERE.
JJ. at his younger bro's bar mitzvah celebration |
April 20, 2022
APR 20 (2022), singable satire: The Beatles sing "BRENNAN'S TWEET"
ORIGINAL SONG: "Let It Be", The Beatles, 1970.
BRENNAN'S TWEET
(to the tune of "Let It Be"; the Wikipedia article, as given above shows the details of the tweet. )
When we face a federal crisis
Chorus:
Pass torch to Robert Mueller: Brennan's tweet.
April 19, 2022
APR 19, American satire (prolongation): Deceit, social
April 18, 2022
APR 18, excursions: further afield in South Carolina
GREENVILLE
Greenville: Falls Park, and the Liberty Bridge over the Reedy |
Belltower at Furman University, Paris Mountain in the background |
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CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK
forests of cypress knees |
unusually large temperature discrepancy |
April 17, 2022
APR 17, culinary verse: boiled peanuts (goober peas)
Enjoy viewing Johnny Cash and Burl Ives singing 'Goober Peas' on YouTube by clicking HERE.
on-line photo: a nearby establishment in the Carolina lowcountry |
Find the collection of illustrated poems dealing with these issues on the post 'Culinary Verse' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
April 16, 2022
APR 16, funny bones: pelvic fractures
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April 15, 2022
APR 15, Carolina lowcountry: pluff mud
scene next to Pitt St Bridge park, Mt. Pleasant SC, May 2020. |
Readers might be interested in a post highlighting more illustrated nonsense about 'pluff mud' in the form of a brief poetic saga ('The Walrus and the Carpenter, lowcountry version'). Click HERE.
pizza delivery boxes in Mt. Pleasant South Carolina, touting service to 'the Lowcountry' |
April 14, 2022
APR 14, mythed opportunities: Eliyahu (the prophet Elijah)
Note that Eliyahu may come by his reticence to use modern technology for good reason. Last week, Israel's chief rabbis decided that even in this plague-ridden year (2020), video-conferencing is subject to the usual ban on the holiday use of electronics.