le plus ca change…
January 6, 2007 on 5:58 pm | In masonry, rants | No Commentsabout to head to dinner to conclude a somewhat strange afternoon.
continued our yearly tradition of attending my dad’s lodge installation, this time as his first time not being installed as secretary in 32 years. the installation ceremony was the same as it has been in previous years. the pot luck lunch was wonderful as always. but some things were a little different:
- a latino gentleman was installed as the next position up in the chain towards serving as master of the lodge. he is friendly, gregarious and genuinely likable. to everyone except the member that quit because he thought “spics” didn’t belong in the lodge. in 2007.
- seeing water spurting up at the curb in the front yard, i asked one of the past masters if a water hose had been left running. “no, it’s the sump pump,” he said. “you should see it when the niggers walk by, it really makes ‘em jump!” in 2007.
- on a lighter note, today marked a first for every member of the lodge. the newly installed tyler was apparently shirking his responsibilities, as not once but twice the neighbor’s cat darted in the open lodge front door and open lodge room door, interrupting the service and putting a smile on everyone’s face.
even my own mother, who was born and raised in ohio, described some sort of nut for my nephew, saying “we always called them nigger toes.”
next up is dinner at cracker barrel, long known for firing minorities. who says you can’t go home?
one of those rare occasions…
January 2, 2007 on 9:22 am | In organ | No Comments… that makes me wish so badly that i lived in a larger city. this time, in D.C.:
http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/pdfs/FordFuneral.pdf
no pre-recorded funeral parlor service music here.
just another day…
January 1, 2007 on 12:01 pm | In masonry, ramblings | No Commentsso, i’m spending my new year’s holiday this year finishing up the parts of my mom’s christmas present that i didn’t get done over the holiday — cleaning the drapes, vacuuming baseboards, cleaning ceiling fans, fixing stuff around the house, and de-christmas-ing in general. i had been invited to go out in chapel hill, but honestly i’ve been having trouble staying up past 9:00 p.m. for the past few weeks anyway.
as it turns out, i had an invitation to come up to richmond and stay with one of my best friends, and it turns out that the person i consider my best friend in raleigh was back in town yesterday, but i didn’t know either of these things until i was already hunkered down in oxford.
next weekend i must come back home for the lodge’s annual installation of officers, and i believe we’ll resume having church services as well. the following weekend i’m supposed to go back up to richmond – something for me.
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