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Southpaw Jones presents
Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
Let’s see, where was I? Ah, yes, we arrived in the trendy, collegiate area of Seattle and found the Trabant Chai Lounge. More importantly, we found an Asian restaurant where I scored a mound of teriyaki chicken & rice, FOUR California rolls, salad, and miso soup all for $6.99. Awesome blossom! We had some more time to kill, so we stopped in the American Apparel store. If you’re not familiar, this used to be a progressive-minded t-shirt company. Well, now, it’s a hyper-sexualized world of solid colors. The walls were covered with soft-core porn, and the employees looked like high school girls straight out of gym class. I…did…not…have…my…camera.

The gig was fun. Tippers were generous. I got a some sort of chai drink with cookies & cream flavor. My old friend Jennifer was there with her boyfriend Matt. She was the coolest girl in my high school class. And I mean cool in the pure, non-ironic sense of the word. It was good to see her thriving in the NW. They joined Raina, her friend Tricia, new friends Keith & Hilarie, and me for drinks after the show. We discussed monorail versus light rail and coffeehouse quality among other locally flavored controversies. I had a melon ball and yes, I wore the skirt that came with it.

I spent the night at in Jennifer’s excellent guest bed after watching an odd, local sketch comedy show. Seattle has its own sphere of culture for sure. At this point, after munching intermittently, I still had some left-over chicken.

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

Internet arrives.
You have mail! How did we find
things before Google?

Abi Tapia presents
Abi Tapia’s America
Our own wanderlusty singer/songwriter offers a view from her lens:
A walk in the mountains around Chattanooga.

Herman Bennett presents
Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Observations from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber:
You can say ‘butt joint’ to a carpenter and get a whole different reaction than you would saying it to a group of 10 year old boys. You can say ‘bastard file’ in a hardware store or ‘that bitch’ in a kennel. You can hardly wait to say ‘craps’ in Nevada, but ‘crap’ is an entirely different thing. ‘Ass’ is a word used in the Bible and so is ‘hole’…asshole is not. I think, thanks to the flap in which G.W. Bush called a reporter an asshole and it had to be reported, it’s okay to say a-hole. It’s even okay to say ‘pissed off’, used to just be POed. Can’t say piss, can say pee. Heard Ozzy Osborne say, on the travel channel, “I’m gonna go take a crap…are you gonna follow me there?”

Southpaw Jones presents
Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:
Said “I do” with the dead
Highlight here for answer: [married buried]

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