DAILY PHOTO: Sign Much, Tokyo?

Photograph of a sign-laden street in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Photograph of a sign-laden street in Akihabara, Tokyo.

PROMPT: Cry

Daily writing prompt
What’s the last movie that made you cry?

Tropic Thunder. Laughed myself to tears.

DAILY PHOTO: Köktöbe Ferris Wheel

Photograph featuring a Ferris wheel taken at Köktöbe (Blue Hill) on the edge of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Photograph featuring a Ferris wheel taken at Köktöbe (Blue Hill) on the edge of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

PROMPT: History

Daily writing prompt
If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?

The Teapot Dome Scandal. Because of the way History is taught (or was in my day) I have this name indelibly etched in my brain (taking up valuable — i.e. limited — real estate) that has no significance because I have no idea what said event was. Was it about teapots? Was it about domes? Was it about both? If so, what’s a “teapot dome?” The curved part at the top? How big of a teapot related scandal could there be, really.

Ephemeral View [Haiku]

in a one step span
reflected flowers come
in and out of view.

DAILY PHOTO: Line of Elephants on Barren Earth

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Photograph taken in Amboseli National Park in Kenya of a line of elephants traipsing out of the shelter of trees across bare soil.

PROMPT: Conspiracy

Daily writing prompt
What’s a conspiracy theory you actually find believable?

I used to think any conspiracy of three or more was doomed to someone talking, but now I’m pretty sure there’s a bipartisan cabal of billionaires who get together and laugh and laugh about how they can get with absolutely every American underaged daughter if they just keep people scrolling material that paints an opposition as lunatics void of all humanity, such that a pack of horny dimwitted robber-barons seem positively electable by comparison.

Summer Gust [Haiku]

malformed tree 
stands rigid against
a Summer gust.

Caterpillars [Haiku]

caterpillars
on each branch;
leaves, but memories.

DAILY PHOTO: City of the Dead, Manjyly Ata

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Photograph of the cemetery at Manzhyly Ata in Kyrgyzstan.