The Thursday and the Ivy.
Southpaw Jones presents
Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
You know, things weren’t going quite so bad until we had a right-handed president:
Ronald Reagan 40th
George H.W. Bush 41st
Bill Clinton 42nd
All left-handed! Now, I realize that some folks aren’t aware of the origins of “Southpaw,” so I thought I’d share them today. Turns out, it’s a bit of a controversy. From Wikipedia:
A left-handed individual may be known as a southpaw, particularly in a sports context. It is widely accepted that the term originated in the United States, in the game of baseball. Ballparks are often designed so that the batter is facing east, in order that the afternoon or evening sun does not shine in his/her eyes. This means that left-handed pitchers are throwing from the south side. The first use of the term is credited to Finley Peter Dunne. However, the Oxford English Dictionary lists a non-baseball citation for “south paw”, meaning a punch with the left hand, as early as 1848, just three years after the first organized baseball game.
In boxing, someone who boxes left-handed is frequently referred to as southpaw. The term is also used to refer to a stance in which the boxer places his right foot in front of his left, so it is possible for a right-handed boxer to box with a southpaw stance. Most boxers, southpaw or otherwise, tend to train with sparring partners who adopt a right-handed stance, which gives southpaws an advantage.
All I know is, I play guitar left-handed or flipped or upside-down and “Southpaw” is a heck of a lot more interesting than my real name…Bubba.
Southpaw Jones presents
iPawed [Original]
Pound for pound, the best sounds around. For free!
FREE MP3s of my 10 “Greatest Hits,” available for a limited time. Get ‘em and share ‘em while you can!
Finally, here is my wildly fictional account of The Last Remaning Beatle. I hope you’ve enjoyed Southpaw’s 10 Days of Christmas. I’ll leave all the songs up for a few more days, so tell your friends to download for free while supplies last. We’ll have to do this again sometime!
Southpaw Jones presents
Online Museum of the Week
Scared of Santa!:
Southpaw Jones presents
SPJTV
Moving pictures because technology allows it:
How to Be a Psychic, Lesson 453: Sugar, you just gotta stick to your guns, no matter how…awkward…and…horrible…the reading becomes.
Southpaw Jones presents
Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater
Thank you, come again!
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