Flannery O’Connor, American novelist, short story writer and essayist.
I can relate to this. Can you?
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
Welcome once again to Fandango’s Provocative Question. Each week I will pose what I think is a provocative question for your consideration.
By provocative, I don’t mean a question that will cause annoyance or anger. Nor do I mean a question intended to arouse sexual desire or interest.
What I do mean is a question that is likely to get you to think, to be creative, and to provoke a response. Hopefully a positive response.
Raise you hand if you watched the Grammy Awards show on Sunday night. I did. Who the hell are those people I saw on TV? Sure, I recognized a few of them. Like Trevor Noah. But he was the host, not a recording artist. And let’s see. Oh yeah, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson. I recognized them. And I got excited when they introduced Madonna, but then a woman who looked nothing like the Madonna I remembered started talking. Huh?
Okay, when it comes to music, my favorite period started in the late 50s and stopped evolving in the mid-80s. I admit it. I’m basically an oldies and classic rock fan. So the fact that I recognized the names and music of so few artists at the Grammys didn’t surprise me. But I think I’m going to skip the Grammys going forward because I just can’t relate to most of what I saw and heard during the telecast.
Maybe I’m just an old fart who has no interest in contemporary popular music because it doesn’t hold a candle to classic rock. But I do wonder what your own preferred music genres are. So even if you didn’t watch the Grammy Awards, my provocative question this week is…
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It’s February 8, 2023. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “perfume.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
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