I normally wouldn't write about how I go about picking the photos I post and when I post them, as the process is less interesting than the actual posting. I will say that, since I work on a secluded campus outside the city, I don't have much opportunity for daylight photography during the week. Instead, I take a lot of pictures during my weekend wanderings. Then, on Sunday evenings, I pick a few I like, edit them, add the descriptive text, then upload them to typepad. Typepad allows me to schedule when I want the postings to become public. In that way most of my posting for the week is done on Sunday (although I'll often add more posts during the week, and sometimes I'll remove a posting before it goes public).
That said, I took this picture of the double negative sign Sunday morning, the same morning I took the photos of Mount Olivet Baptist Church, while walking to the newstand to get the paper. The photo brought back some high school memories that I thought I would share, so I wrote them up Sunday night and scheduled them to appear this morning. I hope you find this as entertaining as I did, especially if you were momentarily confused and thought Tuesday, not Wednesday, was posting of illiterate sign photographs day.

It can't get no better
In 9th grade Mr. Martin, my English teacher, told us that for every instance we reported of improper grammar or spelling on a public sign or display we would get extra credit points. I remember reading Of Mice and Men and A Tale of Two Cities that semester but I don't remember anyone in our entire class getting any extra credit. In 9th grade we were old enough to realize how small our town was and how few public signs and displays there were. We were disgruntled about the assignment and protested that we never see anything wrong, ever. We thought Mr. Martin's extra credit was impossible to attain. For the rest of my life I will forever be plagued by my extra credit assignment and feel the urge write down a sign misspelling on an index card and bring it in to class the next day.
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