PROMPT: Brands

What are your favorite brands and why?

The ones that offer the best value for the money at a given time. I have no brand loyalty, and — in fact — find it to be an absurd concept. It’s corporate hacking of humanity’s proclivity for tribalism in service of profit-maximization.

DAILY PHOTO: Russian Orthodox Church of Baku

PROMPT: Elections

Do you vote in political elections?

Not as religiously as I did in my youth. Counter to the general trend of younger people hollering and protesting but not showing up to the polls, and thus not influencing change because politicians are cued into to the older crowd that tends to show up hell or high water.

DAILY PHOTO: Flame Towers, Baku

DAILY PHOTO: Maidan [Qiz Qalasi] of Baku

Split Personality [Haiku]

yellow & purple 
pansies draw butterflies,
bees, & photogs.

DAILY PHOTO: Temple on Blissfulness Hill

PROMPT: Most Productive

When do you feel most productive?

When the internet is down.

Night Heron [Senryū]

a night heron,
up & about at sunrise,
like diehard revellers.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Cubbon Park