…the Site
This site is devoted to exercises in both writing and life, through the embarkation (it’s a word, promise) upon Projects intended to entertain, enlighten and challenge both author and reader.
It was created as a way to simply get the author to write (nearly) every day, and has evolved into something that allows said author (that’s me) and said audience (that’s you) to explore, indulge in, push boundaries on and otherwise rub a metaphorical nose in, such disconnected topics as love, online dating, linguistics, bad poetry, “modernity,” San Francisco The World in all Her glory, and how to be a decent human being. (Still working on that last one.)
…the Author
Shannon is a writer and performance artist who goes by the stage/pen/nick/pet name “GRAY”.
The picture you see here is included in the event that you are unimpressed with her verbal skills. She may not always be eloquent but she can always fall back on gymnastic party tricks.
A graduate of UC Berkeley in Linguistics and Mass Communications, she is fascinated by words, sounds, and other productive things to do with the mouth. Her favorite sounds are guttural plosives; her favorite words are “snarky” (number one) and “susurrus” (number two). If she had a third favorite word, it would be “aubergine” (maybe).
She is very interested in creative writing and journalism, branding and the ubiquity of mass communications, pop and global culture, the intersection between art and technology, bright colored shoes with bright colored laces that make her look FAST, and how cities are like people. Shannon is currently seducing San Francisco Penngrove Oakland. Hello, Lover.
She is a big fan of social experiments that explore the borders and delineations of society and the self, and utter uniqueness in appearance or character—despite the fact that she is pretty generic looking and hasn’t said anything that hasn’t already been said before.
And she is grateful you’ve visited.
