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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:
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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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Posted on 08.11.10 by Danny 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: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 07.30.10 by Danny 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 Danny 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 Danny 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 Danny 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 Danny 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 Danny 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 Danny 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 Danny Glover @ 10:06 pm
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