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Here’s a quick take video slideshow by your faithful citizen of WestVirginiaVille, standing amid the huddled, laughing masses at the Rally to Restore Sanity held today in Washington, D.C., hosted by the inimitable Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Below are still photos of some of the many clever signs. Feel free to click them up large and embed them on your own site and share them around, with the caveat that you please include the following line (or even better as a live link back to http://westvirginiaville.com): Photo courtesy of WestVirginiaVille.com

WestVirginiaVille.com photo ~ 2010

I have been missing in action from this blog for more than a month, toiling over this blog instead. Take a look – and do subscribe in the uper right-hand corner if you want to kep tabs on this latest project/experiment to attempt a multimedia web mag and then some. The ‘then-some’ is coming next year.

“Love the Earth and
the Love will bring you
Down to Earth.”

~ my dear carpenter compadre Raymond
(signing off in a letter written on a very thin slice of wood)

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So, I encouraged my newspaper colleague, Bill Lynch, to wander into the Milton corn maze, eight acres of twisting, looping, confusing trails amid the corn stalks. I tracked him with a video camera. He got lost. I got lost. We got lost. This is what video cameras are for. The video is set to a cool instrumental soundtrack titled “Muting Man” by Sean Richardson’s instrumental outfit, a flying fortress.

The Hoopies were out in force at Culturefest 2010, atop a mountain in southern West Virginia.

Playing hoops at Culturefest ~ september 2010 ~ douglas imbrrogno

Still Life with Blue Sky ~ Cabell County, WV ~ Summer 2010

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” ~ Linda Hogan

Maj0r Minor

I am a
major
minor artist.

Which is
better,
I think,

than being
a minor
major artist.

~ By Cardinal Crowe
(from the forthcoming collection of epigrams, bon mots and poetry, “What I Meant To Say,” The WestVirginiaVille Press)

Last Lunch at Blossom | charleston.w.va. | sept2010 | d.imbrogno

Wannabe diners spill out onto Quarrier Street, looking for a last meal at Blossom Dairy before the Bill Sohovich-era comes to a close at the popular lunchhole in downtown Charleston, W.Va. Click to enlarge.

See Sohovich in action, in full field marshall mode at high noon lunch hour, talking to the camera about why he’s closing. Plus, a few cheesecake shots of the Blossom milkshake, an item popular enough to warrant its own 12-Step support group:

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