Southpaw Jones

Southpaw Jones presents
Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
Alrighty folks, today marks the One Week Anniversary of southpawjones.net, and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks to everyone who contributes and reads and bookmarks. I have invited my entire mailing list to visit the site today. That’s hundreds of folks who had no idea what they were getting into when they wrote their e-mail down some night in some coffeehouse. We’ve come a long way, my friends, and I wouldn’t trade it all for a pot roast.

If this is your first visit, feel free to look around. I’m hoping to keep up the pace of 5 fun bits 5 times a week. I’ve got some friends contributing various articles of word and deed. They’re great, if you ask me. It’s all about sight and sound and language and not repeating oneself. And not repeating oneself. So leave a comment to let me know what you think. If the site looks odd on your particular computer, perhaps I can improve it. I’m not perfect, contrary to what you might have read in Southpaw’s Mom: A Mother’s Manifesto.

I even recorded an aural welcome for you all. It’s odd, I’ll admit that right here and now, but I’m posting it anywayz. Check section 2. Here it comes!

Southpaw Jones presents
iPawed [Oddity]
Pound for pound, the best sounds around. For free!
Welcome to Southpawjones.net! (1:51)

Spike Gillespie presents
A Haiku History of the World
A look at our past, / seventeen syllables and / three lines at a time:

There’s no place like Rome.
A salad of Caesars tossed
aside by the Goths.

Atomic Robot presents
Wikipedioh?
What you might not know about what you might now know:
Roman Emperor Caligula Attempts to Nominate His Favorite Horse to Highest Public Office in Rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitatus

Caligula was the first of the so-called “Mad Emperors” of Rome. Aside from having incestuous relations with his sisters, having his Roman legions attack the sea, bringing back shells as “spoils of war,” and watching executions as he ate, he nominated his favorite horse for the position of Consul – the highest public office in Rome.

Here’s what Wikipedia tells us:

“Incitatus was the name of Roman emperor Caligula’s favored horse. Some have indicated that the horse was attended to by eighteen servants, and was fed oats mixed with gold flake; according to Suetonius, Incitatus had a stable of marble, with an ivory manger, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones. Caligula even procured him a wife, a mare named Penelope. It has also been said Caligula claimed his horse to be a ‘combination of all the gods’ and to be worshipped as such. Suetonius wrote also that Caligula planned to make Incitatus a Consul.”

Fortunately, this motion was blocked by the senate and Caligula was murdered by his own guards shortly thereafter.

Here’s what Wikipedia DOESN’T tell you:

That’s fine. Go ahead and laugh like you’re living in a superior society. Here’s what you don’t know: Harriet Miers, President George W. Bush’s first nomination to the Supreme Court, was actually his favorite horse in disguise.

Southpaw Jones presents
Paw Prints
Pictures of Southpaw & his environ:
Here’s a shot of me opening for The Ginn Sisters at The Cactus Cafe in Austin last Tuesday. Mr. Ron Baker sent it to me, and you can check out more of his concert shots here. Thanks, Ron!

Thank you, come again!
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