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.
August 14, 2022
AUG 14, STD-poetry: the 'gon-dom' and the condom
August 13, 2022
AUG 13, birdlore: cattle egrets
You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Poems about BIRDLIFE' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
August 12, 2022
AUG 12, ecto-parasites: order of fleas
August 11, 2022
AUG 11, defining opinion: holdout
Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
August 10, 2022
AUG 10, American satire (prolongation): taking the fifth
August 9, 2022
AUG 9, origin of "bloggerel": part #1 -- song-lyrics and poetry
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".
August 8, 2022
AUG 8, reptiles: update on anole coloration
During the first week of May, 2022, with spring seriously underway in the Carolina Lowcountry, little lizards were out doing their thing in our yard (I presume that's hunting for insects, looking out for potential mates, and patrolling their territories to keep out intruders).
Harking back to previous reference on this site to anoles, I came across the following illustrated verses:
Events around our yard 'today' (May 3, i.e. taking down an old fence) made it a good day for further observations of green anoles and their remarkable penchant/ability to change colour, even though biologists insist that they are not true chameleons.
'Ollie' the green anole, looking greyish on old post |
'Ollie', posing again, in our backyard, on Ocala anise branch, 2 minutes later |
a different creature, ('Ollie's cousin?) climbing down crepe myrtle, few minutes later, 100 feet away |
You can review photos and illustrated herpetologic verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Verses about Reptiles (don't worry! no snakes)' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
August 7, 2022
AUG 7, pluralia tantum: 'dependent' -- cooking ingredients
Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this messa
ge: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
August 6, 2022
AUG 6, death and the afterlife: dining in Heaven
August 5, 2022
AUG 5, mythed opportunities: dryads
August 4, 2022
AUG 4, binomial phrases: rhyming pairs
To review our poetic effusion about binomial phrases proceed to our blog 'Edifying Nonsense', click HERE !
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 !
August 3, 2022
AUG 3, palinku (poetic novelty): evil
In this post, we continue with a 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).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
(Or, if your prefer, you can view all this material on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
August 2, 2022
AUG 2, reprehensible modern history: Franco-German conflicts
Cannes (KAN): French town on the Côte d'Azur, famous for its luxury hotels and villas, and for its international film festival
Worms (VORMZ): German town (sometimes pronounced by anglophones as WUHRMZ) of about the same size as Cannes and Limerick, famed for its production of liebfraumilch
August 1, 2022
AUG 1, English classics survey course: Paradise Lost (Milton's epic poem)
Paradise Lost, the epic poem about the Fall of Man and the Garden of Eden, by 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). is contained in twelve books. Its review by young literature students is aided by student guides such as Cliff's Notes.
You can review the entire curriculum for our 'English Classics Survey Course' at "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.
July 31, 2022
JUL 31, classic palindrome: racecar
This perseverating nonsense may be partly explained by the author having driven a 2002 Toyota Camry as his only automobile since 2009. That no car can compete for efficiency, value and longevity is embodied in the classic palindromic phrase A Toyota's a Toyota (see the linked previous post for further discussion.)
July 30, 2022
JUL 30, reprehensible modern history: Confederate statues
View the entire collection of poetic assertions on this topic (currently small, but growing) at our more encyclopedic blog 'Edifying Nonsense', by clicking HERE.
July 29, 2022
JUL 29, reptiles: broad-headed skinks, photo-collages
July 28, 2022
JUL 28, waterfowl: snow geese
July 27, 2022
JUL 27, birdlore: California scrub-jays
You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Poems about BIRDLIFE' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
July 26, 2022
JUL 26, planet-saving verse: compostables (green bins)
July 25, 2022
JuL 25, mythed opportunities: Aurora and Tithonus (eternally)
You can take advantage of the whole spectrum of illustrated poems dealing with 'Mythed Opportunities' that we have collected on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
July 24, 2022
JUL 24, Italian loanwords: fiasco
July 23, 2022
JUL 23, toxic vignette: gadolinium contrast agents for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
July 22, 2022
JUL 22, at heart: the arteriopath
July 21, 2022
JUL 21, anagram swarms: bilateral North American scheme (Canada's turn)
July 20, 2022
JUL 20 (2022), singable satire: James Taylor sings "NESSUN DORMA"
inspired by the author attending a James Taylor concert at the North Charleston Coliseum, May 15, 2018.
ORIGINAL SONG#2(lyrics): "Nessun Dorma", aria from the 3rd act of "Turandot" composed by Giacomo Puccini, first performed after his death in 1926. Translation of the libretto can be found on the Wikipedia link.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015, updated 2018.
(to the tune of "Mexico")
Way up here, opera season’s in gear
July 19, 2022
JUL 19, organic brain poetry: early-onset Alzheimer's
Authors' Note: Recent reports point out the devastating effects of an early onset of Alzheimer's dementia. Fortunately, this variant, manifesting at an earlier than usual age, is relatively uncommon, but isn't it time that we discovered the cause and treatment for this tragic disorder?
July 18, 2022
JUL 18, funny bones: heterotopic ossification (HO)
You can view verses on this topic in a wider context by proceeding to the post 'Breaking News: FUNNY BONES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
July 17, 2022
JUL 17, braincheck: visual cortex
July 16, 2022
JUL 16, palinku (poetic novety): invective
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all, if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
(Or, if your prefer, you can view all this material on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
July 15, 2022
JUL 15, American satire (prolongation): 'unhinged'
We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!