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Posted on 01.25.12 by Danny Glover @ 11:30 am
We’ve been down this road before on this blog — twice, in fact. Apparently road-painting crews (and our “home-shcooled” son) have trouble spelling the word “school correctly. The latest example, as reported by Fox News:
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Posted on 12.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 3:14 pm
But first a bit about Pinterest: As the name implies, the site is a place where you “pin” pictures of the people, places and things that “interest” you. But this virtual pinboard also has a social aspect to it. After you pin photos to your topical boards, other people can “like” them, “repin” them to their own Pinterest boards or comment on the photos. The network is especially popular with women, who use it to create collections of recipes, clothes and other items. But as I poked around the site today, I realized that it’s a great forum for creating photo essays and themed albums on topics that interest me, too — sports, politics, West Virginia and, of course, rednecks. I decided to make my trial run on Pinterest a fun one by pinning photos from past “Redneck Humor” entries on this blog. (One potential benefit is new readers.) I also scoured the Internet for other photographic displays of redneck humor and pinned several of them to my board. This photo album is a win-win for both you and for me. It makes it easier for rednecks who love to laugh at and with their kinfolk (in spirit, if not reality) to find “snapshots of happily uncultured American life” in one place. And It’s much easier and quicker for me to pin multiple photos to Pinterest than to blog about each photo individually. When it comes to redneck humor, pictures tell the story far better than my words anyway. So if you have not done so yet, click on over to my new Pinterest board and get your fill of redneck laughs. And if you’re so inclined, request your own invite to Pinterest and repin or like the photos that make you laugh the most. Filed under: Blogging and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Social Media Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:35 pm
During the legislative season, Paul Ryan is a budget geek in Congress. But when hunting season comes, he’s a whitetail wonk and a sharpshooter in the wilds of Wisconsin. The proof is in this picture that Ryan, R-Wis., posted to his Facebook page today: “I butcher my own deer, grind the meat, stuff it in casings and then smoke it,” Ryan told Politico. “Not much to it.” That, my friends, is an enlightened redneck. Filed under: An Enlightened Redneck ... and Government and Hunting & Guns and People and Photography and Rednecks and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:27 pm
Sometimes we West Virginia University fans have a twisted sense of humor. Our “Backyard Brawl” rivalry with the Pitt Panthers brings out the best of the worst within us. ![]() The Mountaineers win the “Front-Porch Pumpkin Brawl”! Filed under: Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.27.11 by Danny Glover @ 9:18 am
One of the most common complaints about the media is that they emphasize bad news almost to the exclusion of good news. The truth of that critique was never more obvious than in yesterday’s “Pictures of the Day” on Lens, a New York Times blog about photography. Readers were treated to a series of photo stories full of bad news, including:
The Times apparently prefers to front load its journalism with bad news and end on a happier note, though. The 12th picture of 13 featured a colorful image of a prayerful religious festival in Sri Lanka and then this gorgeous snapshot of a double rainbow over London. Filed under: Human Interest and News & Politics and Photography and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 8:17 am
A couple of weeks ago, amid a rain-saturated week, thousands of riders on Virginia Railway Express had to catch cabs or find other rides home when VRE canceled some service during the Thursday evening journey. Many people spent hours stuck in commuting limbo and no doubt were furious. After seeing this picture, which VRE published in a newsletter for passengers this week, they should be grateful to VRE, as well as the rail owners CSX and Norfolk Southern, for avoiding a tragedy: But VRE passengers also should be outraged that the rail lines didn’t impose speed restrictions earlier Sept. 8 — and that VRE didn’t pressure the rail lines to do so (at least so far as we riders know). The policies in place for determining when to slow trains for safety reasons and when to let them chug full steam are utterly nonsensical and thus both aggravating and dangerous at the same time. The proof of this was evident a few weeks before the pictured ballast collapse on the Fredericksburg Line. The aggravation reached a pinnacle Aug. 18, when Norfolk Southern imposed speed restrictions of 15 miles per hour during an evening commute that barely got the tracks wet. It was a knee-jerk decision driven by the same kind of mentality that prompts schools and local governments in the Washington area to close at the mere chance of snow or ice rather than visible precipitation. Our “turtle train” arrived more than an hour late, long after the few sprinkles had fallen. VRE fielded numerous complaints and shared that customer aggravation with Norfolk Southern. That aggravation, followed days later by a legitimate earthquake-induced nightmare commute for VRE riders, likely led to Norfolk Southern’s dangerous leniency in imposing flood restrictions during heavy rainfalls the week of Sept. 4. After catching grief from both VRE customers and VRE as a client, the rail company didn’t want to repeat its mistakes of the recent past, so it erred in the opposite direction. This, too, is the reaction of schools and local governments after they are rightly mocked for closing prematurely. All of us VRE riders are glad that the long-distance vision of a locomotive engineer avoided tragedy Sept. 8, and we truly appreciate the commitment of both VRE and Norfolk Southern to our safety. We just wish they would exercise better judgment about when to impose speed restrictions based on fears of flash floods that could compromise the tracks. (Editor’s note: I travel the Manassas Line and actually telecommuted the day before and the day of the track collapse covered in this blog post to avoid delays. I was stunned that the rail companies took so long to impose speed restrictions, tweeted my disgust as I watched the real-time updates on VRE’s Twitter account, and was mortified when I saw the picture of the ballast collapse.) Filed under: D.C. Commuter Diary and Government and News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.25.11 by Danny Glover @ 2:19 pm
The Washington, D.C., region and much of the rest of the East Coast rumbled a couple of days ago when a rare 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Richmond, Va. The Earth’s moving crust left its mark on one of the capital city’s most famous landmarks, the Washington Monument. The National Park Service released these photos of the cracks today: You can see more photos of the earthquake’s damage to the monument at the NPS Facebook page — a testament to today’s social-networking times because the photos aren’t even available on the agency’s website yet. I was working in Washington when the earthquake hit, and like thousands of other earthquake amateurs in the city and elsewhere, I ran out of the building and into the street. According to the experts, we made the wrong choice:
We’ve had a few aftershocks the past couple of days, one of them at 4.5 on the Richter Scale last night, but I’ve slept right through those. Hopefully if I’m awake the next time one hits, at least I’ll know better what I’m supposed to do. Filed under: History and News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.06.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:25 am
My wife Kimberly is a new business owner. A few weeks ago, she decided she wants to offer historical walking tours, in antebellum garb, through Old Town Manassas. She took to the task of starting her business with gusto and made her debut appearance in costume yesterday at the annual Manassas Railway Festival. I took photos at the event and created a slideshow. Enjoy it … and if you’re in the Washington, D.C., area and would like to join Kimberly on the premier walk come July 30, you can reach her at 571-425-2888. Please also like the Manassas Past page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. All good rednecks should know their history, and you can help us share it with others! Filed under: Business and Culture and History and Photography and Travel and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.05.11 by Danny Glover @ 6:38 pm
Residents of Georgetown, Ark., saved this herd of deer from the rising waters of the White River, according to KATV assignment editor Angela Rachels. Filed under: News & Politics and Photography and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.30.11 by Danny Glover @ 2:52 pm
I arrived home to a snowy scene after my Wednesday evening commute. For once I was glad to be a VRE passenger because I heard nightmares of eight-hour commutes (and more) on the snow- and ice-slicked roads. Some people stayed in hotels for the night rather than brave the nightmare traffic. It was a mild storm compared with the blizzards of December 2009 and February 2010 in the Washington, D.C., region but still bad enough to make the next morning’s commute a challenge. I did not rise to the challenge. Instead, I opted for telecommuting. I could have taken VRE, but it was running on a limited schedule and wasn’t worth the hassle. Plus who wants to walk through piles of unshoveled snow on D.C. sidewalks to get to work? Filed under: D.C. Commuter Diary and News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.11.11 by Danny Glover @ 12:26 pm
The best part is that at least the woman seems relatively comfortable in her horned skin. “Zhang embraced her new look and told reporters that she was eager for the second horn to match the first in size,” AOL News reported. Filed under: Health and Human Interest and People and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.06.10 by Danny Glover @ 11:48 am
I love redneck baby pictures, especially when they involve trophy bucks. I’m jealous of this camouflaged deer slayer in the making: Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Photography and Redneck Humor and Rednecks and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.05.10 by Danny Glover @ 6:28 pm
If you’ve ever wondered what chicken nuggets look like before they get to all those fast-food establishments, this picture is the answer: I thought twice about writing this post because our children love chicken nuggets and see my blog when they log onto the computer. But I suspect they’ll have this attitude even after seeing the picture: “It’s obscenely gross and borderline alien but it’s not going to stop me from eating nuggets. They’re too good.” UPDATE, Oct. 11: Any time a story goes viral online, you can count on Snopes.com to get to the bottom of it. And it turns out that although the process of making chicken nuggets is disgusting, the story behind the picture of the pink goop isn’t entirely true. But as far as American kids are concerned, the process doesn’t matter. Even when they see in explicit detail how chicken nuggets are made, they still want to eat them. Filed under: Family and Food and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.21.10 by Danny Glover @ 8:55 am
The tea party movement is the owl; the mouse is the political establishment. We all know how the story will end in November, but the mouse still doesn’t see it coming. Filed under: News & Politics and Photography and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.23.10 by Danny 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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