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.
January 1, 2023
JAN 1, urban concerns: the tropical conservatory
December 31, 2022
DEC 31, palinku (poetic novety): diapers
* DEC 31, HOGMANAY (New Year's Eve): Auld Lang's sine
reprise from December 31, 2020
DEC 31, a brief saga: Hogmanay (New Year's Eve)
midnight scene from our Toronto aerie |
December 30, 2022
December 29, 2022
DEC 29, ecto-parasites: bedbugs
December 28, 2022
DEC 28, painterly poetry: Alfred Sisley, en plein air
December 27, 2022
DEC 27, poetic non-sequitur: "The Secret Life of Plants" (+ US news)
December 26, 2022
DEC 26, mammalian wildlife: gerbils
December 25, 2022
DEC 25: holidays and celebrations: poinsettias
December 24, 2022
DEC 24, curtained verse: florid
Authors' Note:
Although it's principal meanings revolve around the Latin term for flowery or flourishing, florid has come to imply, in the medical context, "referring to a disease or to a symptom in its fully developed form", or perhaps "fragrantly, flagrantly florid".
December 23, 2022
DEC 23, objectionable adjectives: fulsome
Authors' Note: Pretentiousness may be at work when the word fulsome is (ab)used by a writer or speaker who feels that 'full' is not sufficiently impressive.
December 22, 2022
DEC 22, higher connections: great chain of being
December 21, 2022
DEC 21, defining opinion: hollow
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.
December 20, 2022
DEC 20 (2022), singable satire: Tradition Al sings the carol "KOOKY PRESIDENTIAL"
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, February 2019.
ORIGINAL SONG: "Good King Wenceslas", written by English hymnwriter John Mason Neale in 1853, but often now mistakenly referred to as 'traditional'. (The artist mentioned in the byline, "Tradition Al", is apocryphal). Neale's piece (based on accounts of the Bohemian Wenceslas legend and a 13th century 'spring-carol' tune), was highly criticized in the 1920s as "ponderous moral doggerel", but as you all know, has become a seasonal classic.
On You-Tube, you can readily find a spectrum of video recordings of the original lyrics, from the Choir of Westminster Abbey, to Bing Crosby and the Irish Rovers (the last-mentioned is highly recommended for its quirky nature).
SONGLINK: See the version of this post designed for ukulele and guitar players on our lyrics-blog 'SILLY SONGS and SATIRE' HERE.
KOOKY PRESIDENTIAL VIEWS
(to the tune of "Good King Wenceslas")
“Scour the penitentiaries, find Hispanic hitmen,
December 19, 2022
DEC 19, death and the afterlife: where bad Jews go
December 18, 2022
DEC 18, news-post: FIFA (soccer) World Cup 2022
FIFA WORLD CUP 2022:
Final at Qatar venue ends in 3-3- tie.
Thrilling tie-breaker, Argentina, Messi: What more can you say ?
December 17, 2022
DEC 17, waterfowl: flightless seabirds
December 16, 2022
DEC 16, patients and their maladies: Graves' disease
Among several effective treatments, antithyroid drugs, taken over months or years, block production of these hormones, and often result in resumption of the euthyroid (normal) state.
You can view collections of verses on this topic by proceeding to "Nurse-Verse: PATIENTS and their MALADIES" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
December 15, 2022
DEC 15, reptiles: herpetophobes
December 14, 2022
DEC 14, classic palindrome: go hang a salami ...
December 13, 2022
DEC 13: (re)duplication: harum-scarum
December 12, 2022
DEC 12, planet-saving verse: drought
You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
incidental photo (2023)
December 11, 2022
DEC 11, dental feelings (sentimental verse): gnashing, bruxism
You can review the collection of illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Dental Feelings' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
December 10, 2022
DEC 10 (2022), singable cynic's satire: "GLOBAL ROASTING CAN BE SET ASIDE"
PARODY-LYRICS
PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "GLOBAL ROASTING CAN BE SET ASIDE" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
("Global Roasting Can Be Set Aside")
(to the tune of "The Christmas Song")
Al Gore former U.S. Vice-President |
Planet’s roasting can be set aside.
...Armchair experts doubt, outliers like some melting floes
Help predict our global fate.
Tiny dots graphing century lows-
Warm some years, but it’s not too late.