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Anytime someone I know gets engaged, it gets celebrated on this blog. Three years ago it was my longtime friend and collaborator “Weird” Ed Woody (and if you want to read up about the alligators and everything else that happened at their wedding mash here). Then a few short months ago it was Jenna Olwin’s turn. Now late tonight comes word that a dear friend and fellow freedom-fighter in the cause against school uniforms is the latest to get popped with The Question(tm)…

Congratulations to Brittany Gibson (note: this file photograph of Brittany is not meant to be representative of the moment immediately following becoming a pre-nup) who a few days ago was proposed to by Curtis Wilson and she immediately affirmed the lad’s request!

Brittany, yer a fine young lady, and I pray that God will bestow all His blessings upon you and Curtis as you begin ...

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I’ve been able to share the good news with enough people on this end, so I might as well post it here too (especially since I promised that I would on the post about yesterday’s wedding/car crash)…

Yesterday morning, around 4:30 a.m., I discovered that I made the list to attend this year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon in Austin, Texas!

What is Butt-Numb-A-Thon? It’s an annual film festival in Austin, sponsored by the website Ain’t It Cool News and hosted by site creator Harry Knowles (and here is it’s entry on Wikipedia). It’s a 24-hour long (sometimes a bit more) movie event, and this will be the ninth one ever since Harry started it in 1999. The whole thing is a neat fund-raiser that supports stuff for children. Butt-Numb-A-Thon used to be held at the now-legendary original Alamo Drafthouse. This will be the first one held at the new Alamo Drafthouse ...

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Later today, my cousin Meg is getting married. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to this. She and John are really, beautifully in love with each other and they are going to have a wonderful life together. And I’ve been hearing for the past few weeks that this is going to be a very wild wedding! I’ll try to post pictures later.

But already, at 5:30 in the morning, this is shaping up to be an awesome day.

I’m going to postpone explaining exactly why today is so awesome until later, when I can have the pleasure of telling a few people and hearing their reaction (no, Lisa isn’t pregnant… yet). Let’s just say that this is something that I’ve been trying to do for a way long time, and as of this morning, success is finally in sight!

And what you see in this image ...

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I really hate to say this, but righteous anger is something that has always helped me feel more creative so far as parody goes. If there’s something wrong out there in the world, I do what I can to point it out and try to make it right, using whatever talent that God has given me… and in a way that I hope will make people both laugh and think about things.

So now that Rockingham County Board of Education member Ron Price is apparently trying to start-up the school uniforms thing again, my creative juices have gone into overdrive. A lot of ideas have come to mind in the past day or so regarding the Piedmont’s #1 larcenous elected official.

Here’s my latest work: Ron Price as the Gravemind in a piece inspired by the Halo video game series…

It was a bit hard to do, because Gravemind ...

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Time for another hair-rending chapter in the can’t-end-soon-enough chronicles of…

Ron Price

As was reported here last Monday night, at this month’s meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education, Ron Price – who almost a year ago was caught stealing campaign signs on the night before the election and has since gone on to become the most arrogant and condescending school board member at least since consolidation took place 14 years ago – tried to get the board to put Standard Mode Of Dress (SMOD) aka “school uniforms” back on the table for discussion. Because there should be “policies” already in place if SMOD is ever approved, Price tried to explain.

In spite of everything that happened at the July meeting, Price actually had the nerve to bring up SMOD again. For sake of “guidelines” he claimed.

But is Ron Price insane enough to try to once again force ...

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After everything that happened at the July meeting, you would think that Standard Mode Of Dress (“SMOD”) aka school uniforms would not come up again anytime soon at the Rockingham County Board of Education. Or ever again for that matter.

Well, tonight it did.

Take a wild guess who brought it up.

Now to be fair, Ron Price did not outright suggest putting the SMOD issue back up for discussion as something to be immediately implemented (all hell would have broken loose on the far opposite side of the table if he had tried to). But the mere fact that Price spoke at length about wanting to have policies and guidelines already in place and ready for SMOD “in case” it is ever implemented, is troubling enough. I also happened to notice that Price spoke about SMOD as if it was something that the administrators and faculties of schools ...

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This morning I was going back though the past few months of blog posts looking for something I’d written pertaining to education. In the course of searching I found the video of WGSR’s Star Talk on June 14th where Mark Childrey interviewed me about my plans to address the July 9th meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education while dressed as a Jedi Knight. It was all to protest the “Standard Mode of Dress” (legalese for “school uniforms”) at Reidsville Middle and Reidsville High schools that the board had approved.

As was reported here a few weeks later, the board wound up rescinding the earlier vote to implement the policy after POTSMOD (People Opposed To Standard Mode Of Dress) turned the meeting into a media spectacle with picketing by students, black armbands and not just a Jedi but an “escaped convict” too 🙂

Well, I watched the video ...

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