What do you get when you have a Warrior, Elf, Priest and a Wizard on an epic quest, while being chased by Orcs, and accompanied by a magical sword with a bad attitude? The hilarious web series Journey Quest, that’s what!
If you are into fantasy at all, you gotta check it out. The episodes are on You Tube and Hulu.
Hi there. So I’m finally back with a real website (no more forwarding to my campaign page). I also decided to go ahead with a WordPress-powered site, mostly because WP is awesome and the CMS I was using on my old site, well, sucked.
I haven’t yet got around to copying over all my old articles to the new site yet, but that will happen soon.
Just checking to see how the install went…
I was watching the move The Ant Bully this weekend and was surprised to see the unmistakable Square & Compasses engraved on the back of the grandmother’s rocking chair. Now, I doubt that it has some dark, hidden secret meaning to the movie’s plot. And, if it is somehow a secret call to action for masons to start the Revolution– well, I guess I missed that meeting. Best guess is that one of the animators or producers or somebody is a Mason. That, or someone thought having the S&C on granny’s chair enhanced her character’s weirdness.
But the scene has got me thinking… What other movies or magazines or books or TV shows or whatever have little hidden Masonic symbols? Probably not very many, but it would be a cool thing to find them on occasion and I’m going to start looking for ‘em. Lemme know if you find any.
Plus, it’ll give the conspiracy guys more stuff to talk about.
Square & Compasses plainly displayed on the headrest of the grandmother's rocking chair.
I am pleased to announce that my Lodge, Breathitt #649 in Jackson, KY, now has a brand new website. It was designed and coded by none other than yours truly.
Got the approval of the Worshipful Master last night at Degree Team practice, and today it’s up there for the world to see.
Visit the Breathitt Lodge at www.Breathitt649.org
Well, paint me purple and call me Martha, I’m a Hillbilly! And it was a blast, to be sure.
Of course, I had no idea what to expect except that it was going to be an interesting experience. Interesting might actually be slight a word to use to describe it, actually. It was certainly a fun time!
A couple of weeks ago me ‘n Miles went over to the Lee County Shrine Club. He’s already a Hillbilly, so he got have the fun of watching me get ‘nishiated.
And a bonus: on the same day I became a Turtle. That, in itself, was worth the trip…
Are you a Turtle?
From the It Was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later dept…
As many Brethren I’m sure already have heard, former W.Va. Grand Master Frank Joseph Haas has filed suit against the West Virginia Grand Lodge as well as the current Grand Master Charlie Montgomery and previous Grand Master Charles Coleman, among others.
According to the suit, while Grand Master, Haas led the charge to ‘rid Masonry in West Virginia of [its] Orwellian, repressive, regressive and unconstitutional practices’. When Coleman came in, I guess he ruled those changes null and void due to procedural errors. Current Grand Master Montgomery evidently gave Haas a dressing down while in Lodge and expelled him. It appears the expulsion was without trial. Haas is not listed on the West Virginia Grand Lodges website as a Past Grand Master.
A good friend of mine has started writing a novel named, tentatively, Dead Reckoning. I’ve read the first half of the ‘beta’ version of the book and hafta say, WOW!
It’s an action novel that takes place up North (Alaska, to be specific) and is really interesting. Good character development and a good storyline, interesting foreshadowing and good imagery. Anyone out there interested in what it takes to write a book, check out LD’s blog at mynewbook.wordpress.com.
After realizing that many lodges don’t have websites, or have websites that are barely kept up, I decided to create an easy way for Masonic Lodges to create and maintain their very own website. For free and with no ads.
Introducing…. FreeLodgeSite.com!
Right now, the site has the following features:
Also, users can subscribe to lodges and get automatic updates when the lodge site is updated. Another feature allows the lodge site editor to send an email to every member of the lodge (that has subscribed) to keep them informed of any happenings.
There are alot more things I want to do with the site, but I hafta first see if it’s going to be used before I spend any more time on it. It’s pretty cool (I think), very web 2.0-ish and all that. If you put your lodge on the site, please drop a line and let me know how you like it.
The site is 100% free for any Regular Masonic Lodge and is not ad-supported.
Silence Dogood has a great blog post over at The Middle Chamber about Lodge dues. I personally like the $20 per month plan, though each Lodge must decide what it needs to support itself and it’s programs. I know we could certainly do alot more in our Lodge if the dues were up’ed by even another $20/year.
