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Posted on 08.23.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:19 pm
Nothing says “redneck” like a load of lettered laundry hanging out to dry for the whole neighborhood, and the passerby photographer, to see:
The photographer, Mark Luethi, snapped the photo at the Weissport Redneck Festival in Pennsylvania. This is the third year for the event, which is scheduled for Labor Day weekend. Filed under: Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Rednecks Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.11.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 6:32 pm
We want our children to learn how to spell “school” correctly:
Future lessons: “2+2 = 5,” and “Barack Obama is the first president of the United States.” OK, this flub technically isn’t the school’s fault. But I’ll bet the road contractor who painted the sign got his fifth-grade education in public school. Plus remember, his bosses and officials at the nearby school let the error dry long enough for journalists to snap embarrassing pictures of it. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Human Interest and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Photography and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.30.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:39 pm
Gotta a big chunk of land you don’t know how to use? Build a giant pink rabbit big enough for people to see from space:
The humongous lawn sculpture is old news, but I hadn’t heard of it until I found pictures of it via Twitter this morning. It just goes to show that rednecks are everywhere. Some of us decorate geese statues on our porches for each season (a former neighbor in my hometown), and some of us enlighten the world via Google Earth by decorating the Alps with giant pink bunnies. Filed under: Culture and Human Interest and Photography and Rednecks Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.10.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:18 am
Cleveland went ballistic over what it saw as a betrayal. The city’s newspaper, The Plain Dealer, dedicated its front page to a full-length photo of Lebron and this biting commentary: “Gone. 7 years in Cleveland. No rings.” What a bunch of “homers“! Bitterness ruled the day in Chicago and New York, cities that Lebron rejected as his new basketball home. And Miami celebrated the anointing of a new sports king. Lebron fever even hit the hills of my home state, West Virginia. The reason: A couple of weeks before Lebron decided to go to Miami, the Heat drafted West Virginia University all-star Da’Sean Butler. So if Butler makes the team, he could be playing with not only Lebron James but also Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, two other NBA all-stars headed for Miami. Filed under: News & Politics and People and Photography and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.19.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:45 pm
Nothing will remind a redneck of his roots quicker than street “art” in the nation’s capital. These sculptures greeted me on New York Avenue in Washington as I started a new job in the city after more than a year of working primarily from home in the blessedly distant suburbs.    
I’d ask someone to explain what it all means, but I’ll forgo that bit of enlightenment. You call that art. This is art! Filed under: Culture and Photography and Rednecks Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 03.07.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:29 pm
The Urban Dictionary gained a new entry and definition last month courtesy of “2008 Enlightened Redneck of the Year” Sarah Palin. The entry: redneck teleprompter. The definition: “Crib notes written on a public speaker’s hand in order to remind him or her what to say during a speech or interview.”
Palin’s decision to fill the palm of her hand with the few verbal cues before a big speech predictably earned her the scorn of elitists like Mary Kate Cary in U.S. News & World Report:
But Palin got the last laugh the next day during an appearance in Texas. She wrote “Hi Mom!” on her palm when she knew the whole Palin-hating media world would be watching:
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:17 pm
A young Christian named Drew is staying with us a few months while he does an internship in the Washington area. A Georgia Tech student, he’s had quite the treat (or curse) the past week as the mid-Atlantic region has been slammed with snow. Last night, Drew spent quite a bit of time shoveling himself a parking spot out of the snow along our street. But when he returned from worship service this morning, someone else had taken it. We tried to explain that it’s a public street and we can’t keep people from parking there, but he couldn’t be consoled. When we returned home from evening worship a few hours later, the spot was vacant again so I went to the basement, grabbed a can of purple spray paint (the perfect color for a strapping boy who exercises every day) and laid claim to the spot for Drew.
I can’t guarantee folks will pay any attention to the sign, but I gave it the ol’ college try. Filed under: Human Interest and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:12 pm
The game was played two days after the Blizzard of 2010 that walloped the Washington area, so we snapped some great snow pictures in addition to shots of ‘Nova superstar Scottie Reynolds, who attended church at our congregation when Anthony was a baby, after the game. I got half of what I wanted from the trip: Scottie had a great game, but my alma mater lost to his team. But somehow seeing my Mountaineers lose wasn’t as depressing as usual because I got to see a friend win. The bonus: Scottie autographed a basketball for Anthony. The entries below this one feature snapshots from our road trip. Filed under: Family and People and Photography and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:08 pm
I love my point-and-shoot Canon Powershot. It gives me the freedom to multitask on the road — drive with my left hand on the wheel and the camera propped on top of it while I snap photos with my right hand. It’s not something I would do under normal circumstances, but I couldn’t resist the urge to capture travel memories of the Blizzard of 2010 as my son and I traveled from Virginia to West Virginia for a basketball game at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown.
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:06 pm
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:04 pm
After the WVU-Villanova game in Morgantown, Rick Reynolds took my son Anthony, my brother Mark and his son Niko, several Villanova fans, and myself to the VIP section outside the ‘Nova locker room so we could see Scottie. It was great to see Rick interacting with Scottie Reynolds’ teammates. He’s a people person, and he has passed that personality trait along to his son, which will serve Scottie well if he goes pro.
 
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:00 pm
Scottie Reynolds sent the Villanova Wildcats to the Final Four in 2009 with a drive down the court that ended in a last-second layup to win the game against Pittsburgh. At the 2010 WVU-Villanova game in Morgantown, W.Va., Scottie signed copies of a black-and-white photograph that captured the moment. Here’s a snapshot of Scottie signing one of the pictures for the Villanova fan who brought them to the game:
Plus two more shots of Scottie outside the locker room in Morgantown:  
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Posted on 02.10.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 9:27 pm
The nation’s capital is buried in snow after two monstrous storms in less than a week. Today’s storm was so bad at times that visibility was deemed too dangerous for even snow plows to be on the road clearing the snow. The federal government has been closed all week and will be again at least through tomorrow. It is now officially the worst winter on record here since 1899. Yet the scene in Washington looks so peaceful in this snapshot of the Capitol building, taken this evening after the storm cleared out of the area: 
See more AP photos of the storm at Don Surber’s blog. Filed under: News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.10.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 5:43 pm
The Cincinnati Tea Party decided that all of this year’s snow presented a great opportunity to make a statement in white, with dashes of red and blue: 
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Posted on 01.12.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:35 pm
The battle for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Florida also has become a battle for the soul of the GOP. It pits grassroots conservatives who support underdog former state House Speaker Marco Rubio against establishment Republicans, including the campaign arm of Senate Republicans, who are backing “Republican in name only” Gov. Charlie Crist. One of those grassroots conservatives literally shared his two cents with the National Republican Senatorial Committee when it asked him for money. The picture of his protest is priceless:
Michelle Malkin regularly posts images of such “rejected solicitations.” Political activists surely have protested in similar fashion for decades, but their messages are reaching broader audiences thanks to the Internet. Instead of one secretary seeing the protest and tossing it in the trash, thousands of readers are hearing stories that the intended recipients don’t want told. Hopefully the bad press will awaken organizations to the reality that they had better represent the interests of their donors. Filed under: News & Politics and People and Photography and Technology Comments: None |
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