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Sunday, April 27, 2025
Jesuses, Gentle & Orange: Pray Do Not Get 'Em Confused! Another Agony In Eight Fits
Don't pray to Orange Jesus aka The Tangerine.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
The Final Four of "What A's NOT For...Still" Letters W Through Z
warlocks -- wan-wigg'd -- wildly wave one's
worthless warrantee:
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Coburn Copes: An Alphabet
"My boy, you see me astonished."
-- Charles Coburn
Hollywood actor Coburn, playing imaginary rococo-tongued con artist "Colonel" Harrington who is paterfamilias to the Eve mentioned in the title of Preston Sturgis's classic screwball comedy "The Lady Eve," delivers the above line to fellow Tinseltown thespian Henry Fonda playing the fictional fall guy Charles Poncefort ("Hopsie") Pike in the selfsame film. In the lines below Coburn's Colonel voices an abecedarial array of reactions, positive and negative, to a selection of famous fictional characters from classic literature and film.
Bloody
I am
Oh, yes:
Reading
Ah, but
Eglentyne sees me...
(The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)
Frandaboo (?) sees me...
Gilgamesh sees me...
(Gilgamesh by Anonymous)
Hannibal sees me...
(The Silence of the Lambs)
Ishmael sees me...
(Moby Dick by Herman Melville)
Jabberwock sees me...
(Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll)
Katisha sees me...
(The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan)
Lemini sees me...
(Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden)
Michaeleen sees me...
(The Quiet Man from John Ford)
Nicholas sees me...
(Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens)
Oliver sees me...
(Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens)
Passepartout sees me...
(Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne)
Quatermass sees me...
Robin Hood sees me...
Sherlock Holmes sees me...
(The Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)
Turandot sees me...
Undershaft sees me...
(Major Barbara by G. B Shaw)
Voldemort sees me...
(The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling)
Wigglemuch sees me...
(The Wiggelnuch by Herbert Crowley)
Xavier sees me...
Yellowrock sees me...
(Skinwalker by Faith Hunter)
Zampano sees me...
(La Strada from Federico Fellini)
Even More "What A's NOT For...Still" Letters S Through V
saccharine serapes. Simply
stated: Swirlin' Swami's somewhat
silly silken sash:
turreted Topkapis.** Ten to
two 'tis tireless Ted ("The Toiler")
truckin' ten-ton trash:
unshorn Ursulines. U's undress'd
uptight Uncle Uly's** (ugh!) un-
sightly underpants:
vow'l-free v_l_nt_n_s. Vay! Vay! V's
vicious vole's (de-)vouring ver-r-r-ry
vocal Vivian Vance:
Prognosis Pro POTUS: An Alphabet
Ass-over-teatray, he's
Banish'd abroad, whence he's
Cold cock'd then
Dry dock'd. (Drumpf's
Epic'lly
Flaw'd.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
More "What A's NOT For...Still" Letters O Through R
one, one-octave (often oily)
orange ocarina:
Pharaoh's playful daughters: Pin plu-
poorly pleated pants, please, posh pa-
trician Palestrina!
quiv'rin' quiff'd Quaddafis. Quare
quereris, quaint quizzical quin-
duplicated quadrupeds...?
rag-recordin' Rafis.** Rarer,
really: raging, ruffl'd, rather
rakish rude Rhode (Ryeland...?) Reds:
(continued elsewhere)
Saturday, April 5, 2025
What A's NOT For...Still: A Revision & Reissue Of An Early Illuminated Alphabet
Composed and illustrated in 2019, each verse of poetaster Ulysses ("Uly") Poe's illuminated nonsense lyric "What A's NOT For," at the time addressed to the poet's neighbor's children, indicated to that pair of anonymous siblings, one at a time in alphabetical order, not only a series of 26 items which A and the other 25 alphabet letters did not initialize but also a second series, every letter of which in each of the 26 multi-word items in that series began with the same key letter.
The initial of each item named was then illuminated in an image done in colored pencils.
Uly's revision of that illuminated (and, it's hoped, illuminating) ABC first widens the scope of its addressees by speaking to a series of individuals drawn from history and legend whose names begin with their verse's key letter and each of whom has proven instrumental in the creation of one or another invention contributing to the evolution of alphabets.
Additionally, now the items which each letter is NOT for are also pictured -- in black-and-white line drawings. Indeed it is four of each item that are now "What A's NOT For...Still."
Armadillo chips...? |
*With his brother, Methodius, St. Cyril is credited with devising Glagolithic alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavic in 863.
joy...? Just jostling jowl-jamm'd jack-o'-
lantern'd jaguars:
Surrogate Snarks: An ABC Of MAGA Monsters
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