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Weekly Contest #362
FOOD GLORIOUS FOODI looked at my dinner last night and saw the various ingredients in my salad, including lettuce, sprouts, celery, radishes, and mushrooms. I looked upon the piece of medium-rare red meat, no longer mooing in front of me, served along with green beans and a baked potato, and I wondered. How did they know?They are our forefathers — the humans who came thousands of years before us and discovered all the stuff we now take for granted. Forget electricity, computers, the automobile. I was thinking about the food guinea pigs.I’m s...
Weekly Contest #345
I'LL TAKE USELESS INFORMATION FOR $800 ALEXI was going to see a friend. When I got there, the front door was open so I knocked and entered. I saw them — Ray, my friend, hunched over the kitchen table, his granddaughter Amy beside him, both of them staring down at a stack of papers with the hollow expressions of people who had recently lost an argument with customer service.“Kenny!” Ray looked up with the kind of relief usually reserved for first responders. “Come in. Sit down. You want coffee?”“Sure.” I pulled out a chair. “What are you work...
Weekly Contest #343
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH EL NIÑO Stories from Kennyland must be getting noticed. I received an email from a stranger who’d been reading my blog posts: “Hi Kenny — we have a Facebook friend in common who’s been forwarding your stories. They thought you’d be perfect for a project I have in mind. Meet me tomorrow at 10am at the Starbucks on El Paseo. I’ll be wearing a bucket hat. Name’s Cumulous. You’ll recognize me — I’m a tad misshapen and pale.” I had nothing better to do, so I said yes. I spotted Cumulous the moment I walked in. Bucket ha...
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