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	<title>Prosaic Shades of Gray</title>
	<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com</link>
	<description>This is the blog of an aspiring twenty-something writer who, ironically, doesn't write a whole lot. I'd like to think it's due to lack of time and inspiration rather than laziness. Some legacy I'm building here.</description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d be more apathetic if I weren&#8217;t so lethargic</title>
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Honestly, I get it.  But then again, I kind of don&#8217;t.  Why do people always wait until the 1st of January before they initiate all of those lofty, life-altering projects of radical self improvement?  I&#8217;ve never believed in making new year&#8217;s resolutions because I&#8217;ve never viewed the start of a new year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2010/01/06/id-be-more-apathetic-if-i-werent-so-lethargic/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Shut up, that&#8217;s why!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin: You never understand my Simpsons references.
Diana: That&#8217;s because all of your references are stupid and obscure.
Kevin: They&#8217;re not obscure, they&#8217;re subtle.  You know, like the &#8220;b&#8221; in &#8220;subtle&#8221;?  You don&#8217;t really notice it in there, and you never, ever see it coming.  It&#8217;s just a silent letter.  It&#8217;s kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/12/26/shut-up-thats-why/</link>
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		<title>Crude physicality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mysteries of life and existence reveal their truths to us in many ways. I suppose that’s the appeal of staying alive — the romance belying the promise of unraveled complexities.  Yet while the answers tantalize us from eternities of near horizons, the mysteries of life have a way of disappearing when you deconstruct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/11/24/crude-physicality/</link>
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		<title>Six Flags? More like &#8230; Zero Flags. Burn. Right?</title>
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In response to my super lengthy complaint letter to Six Flags Magic Mountain, I received the following letter from the park&#8217;s Senior Guest Relations Supervisor:

Dear Kevin,
Thank you for taking the time to forward your comments about the Ride Lockers and our Loose Article Policy.
Six Flags has identified several rides at each park where riders bringing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/09/11/six-flags-more-like-zero-flags-burn-right/</link>
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		<title>Diana has no sense of humor</title>
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I have a story for you, but there are two things you should know first.
(1) I hate redundant language.  I hate it when people say &#8220;tuna fish&#8221;, or &#8220;PIN number&#8221;, for example.  What used to bother me most of all, though, was when people said &#8220;ATM machine&#8221;.  I mean come on, really? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/08/26/diana-has-no-sense-of-humor/</link>
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		<title>Letter of Complaint to Six Flags Magic Mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. B.,
My name is Kevin Zing, and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.  My girlfriend and I went to a lot of trouble on the weekend of August 15, 2009 to drive down to Valencia to visit Magic Mountain.  A one-way car trip takes a little under five hours from where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/08/20/letter-of-complaint-to-six-flags-magic-mountai/</link>
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		<title>My conversation with God (continued)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GOD:  You fault me for my lack of intervention?
KEVIN:  Of course.
GOD:  Just a moment ago, you told me that God should let His children live their own lives.
KEVIN:  In an ideal universe, even the most aloof and irresponsible deity would take at least some measures to stop his children from hating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/08/11/my-conversation-with-god-continued/</link>
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		<title>The kind of conversations I have while I&#8217;m not writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin: so what&#8217;s up with you?
Casey: went for a jog
Kevin: wow, at 3 in the morning? safe neighborhood?
Casey: our township is rated one of the safest in the US lol
Casey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Township,_Michigan
Casey: Based on statistics reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Canton was the nation&#8217;s 20th safest municipality with a population over 75,000 during 2003, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/06/13/the-kind-of-conversations-i-have-while-im-not-writing/</link>
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		<title>Survival, boredom, and other incomplete thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just beneath the banality of our boring and domestic daily experiences, our lives are predicated on a primal war for survival.  If you have a hard time reconciling that fact to your own life, then try giving up food and water for a full day, and then reevaluating your worldview afterwards over a turkey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/04/24/survival-boredom-and-other-incomplete-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Disappointing visitors from around the globe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just broke my heart.  I checked my blog&#8217;s visitor statistics from over the weekend and took note of visitor number 1001.  Somebody in Saudi Arabia found my blog through a Google search for &#8220;arab booty and big dicks&#8221;.  Piqued by curiosity, I clicked around and followed the referring URL.  Visitor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prosaicshadesofgray.com/2009/04/06/disappointing-visitors-from-around-the-globe/</link>
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