Author Richard Conniff wrote an entertaining post for the New York Times blog Opinionator yesterday. It starts off at sea in a Sieve with the Jumblies and ends in the… [read full post]
Nonsense & Biology in Sunday’s New York Times blog
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Nonsense Poetry
Chicago’s Caffeine Theatre announces Old Father William’s Frabjous and Curious Poetry Contest
Caffeine Theatre and Chicago Opera Vanguard will be premiering Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll on November 18th thru December 19th, 2010, at Chicago DCA’s Storefront Theater. (I understand the… [read full post]
Free Downloads of Storypods Nonsense Contest Winners
Andrew Sellon, President of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, has partnered with Oxford-based Storypods Audiobooks to provide free audio downloads of the two poems that won Storypod’s 2010… [read full post]
“All over a rattle”: Tweedle poem in The Benevolent Otherhood
Volume 1 of a new zine from Oakland and Berkeley writers, The Benevolent Otherhood, contains a nonsense poem by S. Sandrigon mentioning Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum. The new “chapbook” was released this… [read full post]
Alice laughed: Amusing auto-abbreviations in yesterday’s Atlantic
Writing online for the Atlantic, staff writer Niraj Chokshi yesterday noted the surprisingly poetic nonsense that is generated by Microsoft Word’s “autosummarize” feature. Appropriately, he tested the feature on Through the Looking-Glass and… [read full post]
Oxford StoryPods Nonsense Contest and Mad Hatter Lunch Party
Liz and Francis of Oxford Storypods, the talented folks who put out a very nice audio version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland paired with a great selection of poems and… [read full post]