One night around midnight I heard a bird chirping in the backyard. Given the time of night, I found this kind of strange, so I ran a Google search for “Why do birds sing at night?” I came across this Reddit thread in which the original poster (OP) asks, “Why are so many birds chirping…
I was in the office restroom washing my hands when the water pressure failed, and the sink started to sputter water. For half a moment my heart sank, and panic washed over me as I began to wonder whether this was a sign that California’s drought-stricken reservoirs had finally dried up. Then the water pressure…
Yep, KZ’s still got it.
A few days ago, I was browsing the glass counter display at a dessert shop when the friendly young woman working behind the counter asked me if I needed any help. I was having a hard time deciding what I wanted, so I asked her for a recommendation. “If you had a choice between the…
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014)
Day 26: “Naked and Lost”
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It’s funny to think of how much importance we assign to pants (or trousers, as the English call them). I don’t know if it’s due to societal conditioning, or if it’s some deeply rooted instinctual preference, but it’s hard to take a guy seriously when he’s not wearing pants.
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014)
Day 25: “Social Media”
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I don’t have much to say right now about social media, but today’s writing prompt has gotten me into an oversharing kind of mood. So today on Prosaic Shades of Gray, I present to you the first ever installment of a little something I’d like to call “TMI Tuesday”.
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014)
Day 13: “Incommunicado”
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In the offices where I work, there is a motivational poster hung on a wall which has bothered me since the first day I saw it. I wish I had a better picture to offer to you, but the poster is located in an area where I really shouldn’t be taking pictures. The best I can do is post this low resolution image that I found online.
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 12: “One bite” Kevin’s Inner Monologue: I’ve really let myself go these past few months. I was doing so well last summer with P90X until the wedding happened, and then the honeymoon, and then the holidays, and now this stupid month-long writing challenge in February. Now I’m…
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014)
Day 7: “Hint, hint”
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Back in 1996, I was a young kid in high school navigating the turbulent waves of adolescence when the now-legendary hip hop artist, Busta Rhymes, released his debut solo album, The Coming. This album was hot. There was a special quality to Busta’s music that made it strangely unifying among young fans of all different genres of music. I knew people my own age who swore they hated rap, but they couldn’t get enough of Busta’s first single, “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check”.
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014)
Day 4: “When hell freezes over”
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Hey, how’s it going? This is Diana, KZ’s wife. My stupid husband got the story entirely wrong with that atrocity of a poem, “A Song of Goudas and Grays“. This is the real story of the Queen of Cheeses.