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• West Virginia Clean Water Drive Photo Diary

  By Drew Gibson on January 24, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Hey, I know it’s really easy to forget about the water crisis in West Virginia right now, what with GMail crashing and Steve Stockman going AWOL and the Biebs getting arrested for being a drunk driving douchebag, but I implore… Read More ›

• Will Write (And Do Pretty Much Any Damn Thing) For Donations To West Virginia Clean Water Groups

  By Drew Gibson on January 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the past couple of days, I have embarked on a couple of fairly unorthodox campaigns to try and get people to donate money so that the hundreds of thousands of West Virginians who have been left with nothing to… Read More ›

• Bowel-Destroying Gummi Bears For Clean West Virginia Water

  By Drew Gibson on January 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I GIVE YOU THE 1ST INAUGURAL MOUNTAINEER BAD BEARD-OFF FOR CLEAN WATER SUGARLESS GUMMI BEAR EAT-OFF!   FOR EVERY 5 DOLLARS YOU DONATE TO HELP PROVIDE CLEAN DRINKING AND BATHING WATER FOR THE PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA,… Read More ›

• The 1st Inaugural Mountaineer Bad Beard-Off for Clean Water

  By Drew Gibson on January 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  As of right now, there are only two things in this world that I am absolutely sure of: The first is that hundreds of thousands of West Virginians are currently suffering the effects of a massive chemical spill that has… Read More ›

• Book Excerpt: The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum

  By Drew Gibson on January 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A brief note before we get into content from my book, Bread From The Sweat of Other Men’s Faces: It has been brought to my attention by several readers that it might be helpful to provide a little background info… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek of My New Book: Bread From the Sweat of Other Men’s Faces

  By Drew Gibson on January 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, I suppose it’s been about 5 or 6 months since I last posted here on Virally Suppressed and began writing what I hoped would become a honest-to-goodness book about my 39-day trip up, down and across America. That book… Read More ›

• Days 36, 37 & 38: Norman Rockwell & The Past That Never Was

  By Drew Gibson on August 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  On my very last leg of my journey, the Patron Saint of Literary Symbolism (I think his name is St. Harold) placed in my lap one final museum that encapsulates most everything vital and unfounded in the America we’ve been… Read More ›

• Day 35: Philadelphia & the Prisons of Yesteryear

  By Drew Gibson on August 6, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  When he visited The Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote down about the prison’s style of solitary confinement in his American Notes, saying: “I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture… Read More ›

• Day 33: Senior Superlatives For Presdiential Portraits

  By Drew Gibson on August 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  So, I paid a visit to Monticello yesterday and it was a bigger disappointment than Jefferson’s tenure as Governor of Virginia. History burn, anybody? Anyway, they didn’t allow photography inside of the home itself, all I have are lame outside… Read More ›

• Day 31: Big Coal Doesn’t Just Pave Paradise in West Virginia, It Blows It Up

  By Drew Gibson on August 3, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Let me paint a picture for you: You belong to historically resource rich state with a chronically impoverished population because 90% of the resources in said state are owned by outside interests. The area’s main resource, upon which the bulk… Read More ›