The Lonely Goatherd Blog And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats - Matthew 25:32
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February 10, 2009
Rev Jeremiah Wright Visits the Dew Drop Inn First off, I got to send a lot of love to all my customers at Barger's Boutique. You folks are quite literally helping me keep the lights on. Beyond money, I just love designing buttons, and I get a lot of joy in seeing what designs sell and where. I wonder about the customers. What kind of person needed three Jim Jones pins? Some goth teenagers, perhaps? The preachers collection has been my best line here lately - and not just the more obviously nice ones. Can't seem to give a Robert Schuller button away.
But I have been totally tickled for a couple days now over one particular order, speculating what kind of cat would order FIVE of the Rev Jeremiah Wright God Damn America pin. Don't know much about the fella, except that he obviously has fine taste in button accessories. Could be an Angry Black Man. He could be a nuclear scientist or college professor.
But packing his order, I noticed that he's in Jackson, Missisippi. Like, oh my G_d. Never having been there, my main association is artistic. Specifically, Jackson was the setting for my favorite Charlie Daniels song, "Uneasy Rider."
So now I'm having visions of the redneck John Birchers from the Antioch Baptist Church wearing my pins. I'm seeing the patrons of the Dew Drop Inn - that old drunk chick and the fellow with green teeth (the suspected FBI agent) all wearing Rev Wright buttons. Trippy. They've either
undergone a sea change in attitudes, or they've picked up on the concept of irony.
I got a lot of love for them all - even that undercover FBI agent. God bless Jackson, Missisippi.
