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Southpaw Jones presents
Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:

A man in the coffeehouse here was talking pretty loud on his cell phone. He was wishing someone a happy birthday, then he mentioned lunch at Taco Bell, where they have the “new Nacho Crunch Burrito.” Makes me wonder if he’s part of the new wave of ultra-guerilla marketing. After a few minutes, he’ll head to another public place to do the same thing, and Taco Bell will pay him per utterance. I don’t know, but dang it, it worked. I want one.

What is with the form & application industry? Do these people actually try a test run before publishing them? I had to fill out an application yesterday, and crimeny! Who writes that small? At one point, it asked for address and phone number, allowing a half-inch for both. Both! Yes, I like felt tips, and yes, I write as big as John Hancock, but all I ask is a little empathy. It’s like the first sick test of an employer to see how you deal with an impossible task. “This unemployed guy is used to wide open spaces, so we’re gonna give him a quarter page for his entire employment history. See how he does.” Get the fox and the farmer and the chicken and the grain across the river before the cock crows. What’s my point here? New paragraph!

Tonight, I’ll play at Café Mundi with special guests Owen Egerton & Leatherbag! This weekend, I head to Seattle, Eugene, and Portland to play shows with the fabulous Raina Rose. No liquids on the flight(s)!

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

One World War follows
another. Rosie rivets.
Patton rolls. We win.

Abi Tapia presents
Abi Tapia’s America
Our own wanderlusty singer/songwriter offers a view from her lens:
This guy had the freshest (read: stinkiest) onions I had ever smelled.

Southpaw Jones presents
Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:
Someone should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop singing in that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
Elvis Costello

Southpaw Jones presents
Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:
Hate for the kernelled vegetable (1 syllable each)
Highlight here for answer: [corn scorn]

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