Essay Question

Should one have more or less respect for an author who writes corrections in sparkly blue gel pen?

Royal Stet Lodge Corduroy Appreciation Committee?

I suspect we would get along quite well with this organization:

Then I asked, “And the point of a social club is to socialize?”

"I like to use the word "fellowship,'" he said. "I went on a tour of the Masonic Temple on 23rd Street--for purposes of research--and I saw that they use the word 'fellowship' a lot, and I liked that."

"Better Living Through Corduroy," Jonathan Ames, New York Times, November 19, 2006.

Let the Eagle Soar!

The election season RSL bug is out.

Members are reminded to report all patriotic usage of the lodge bug to Lincoln Cushing at the Bancroft Library.

hwww.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/addpages/Bug_adds/UnionBug.html

The favorite aunt of that renowned authority on spelling

In an author's stet of the word "quirked" on a manuscript I'm designing:

A quirk is "an abrupt twist or curve' [Miriam-Webster]

Photocopied for the "Salem That Trials" file, of course.

From the organization known to us as

"that other lodge": Oft Unseen: Art from the Lodge and Other Secret Societies (via Coudal Partners).

Note that they need a proofreader for their URL: "exhibihitions."