Daily writing prompt
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?
Seek a second and third independent source. The News is increasingly unreliable.
PROMPT: News
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PROMPT: News
Daily writing prompt
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.
A bus strike starts today. My chance of dying on the grill of a crosstown bus is substantially reduced for some indefinite period.
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PROMPT: Notable
What notable things happened today?
Israel bombed Iran, so we’ll see what that triggers.
Authorities confirmed that only one person is known to have survived the tragic Ahmedabad – London flight crash yesterday. Just like the movie “Unbreakable.”
Other than that, it was all just tales of the slow descent of mankind.
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PROMPT: First Thing
We’re all screwed. Embrace the chaos or head for the hills.
There is a class of problems that brute force solutions, even when they nudge the needle in the desired direction, always end in devastation.
One can’t drive an aircraft carrier like a jet-ski and expect anything other than a bunch of drowned sailors and destroyed planes.
[Guess who’s been reading the news.]
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PROMPT: News & Life
Daily writing prompt
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.
It is by no means uninteresting, nor did it require “scouring” (though it probably would have if I was in the US,) but Bangladesh is imploding (PM ouster, protests turn violent, all exacerbated by flooding, etc.,) and we were planning to visit later this year. So, much for that trip.
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PROMPT: Historical Events
What major historical events do you remember?
From the Iranian Hostage Crisis onward, pretty much all of them — given they were considered “major” in whatever place I was living at the time.
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Misleading Lines [Lyric Poem]
The headline read, "The World 's at War!" It turns out "with halitosis." I couldn't bring myself to read more. I don't need no bad breath gnosis.
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BOOK REVIEW: I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp by Zumrat Dawut & Anthony Del Col
I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp by Zumrat DawutMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Release Date: April 11, 2023
This short but evocative graphic novella tells the story of a Uyghur woman who is sent away to a reeducation camp and who is also sterilized against her will. It shows the brutality of China’s totalitarianism at its most oppressive. It’s easy to see China as a fairly benign – if autocratic – regime until one learns about the Orwellian nightmare that exists for some minorities deep within the country.
FYI – This book won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.”
I’d highly recommend reading this work as it shines a light deep down the rabbit hole of Chinese governance.
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Beijing Limerick
There was a bureaucrat from old Beijing who claimed that COVID was in a downswing, "It must be, you see, for it cannot be the rules changed cause of shouts of "Can Xi Jinping!"
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Heard is the Word [Clerihew]
The actress Amber Heard claimed to have been beaten & slurred. The case hinged on profound factors, like the likableness of actors.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 