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Archive for February 20th, 2007

This here’s a tale for all the Tuesdays.

February 20, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

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

We’re already in the 20’s of February! Where does the time go? I took yesterday off, and that was lazy of me, but I got a good amount of rest and exercise. I returned to The Killer, a fitness routine I created back when I was funemployed. It consists of leaving my apartment, heading around Town Lake to Congress, and visiting 3 workout stations along the way. At each stop, I complete 22 push-ups and 33 sit-ups. Multiples of 11, I can’t explain it. It was a truly warm, spring-like day here, and I soaked it up.

Back on Friday, I spent a rare night on 6th Street to see my girl Maggie perform with the rest of Spank Dance Company at Emo’s Lounge. They really classed up the joint, and it was fun to see real art in a place where real civilians could be exposed to it.

Saturday, we saw Pan’s Labyrinth, a mind-blowing spectacle of child-like fantasy and adult-like horror. One of those films where you leave the theater having absolutely no idea how long you were in there. It is a must see, even if you detest sub-titles. The best and only film I’ve seen on the big screen in 2007.

Sunday, I woke up early enough to catch my friends Mike and Rob round the final bend of the Austin Marathon. 26.2 miles, it’s no joke. I knew a few other folks in the event, and they all amaze me. With legs like that, who needs mass transit? We should all just piggy-back to work on an assigned marathoner. Congratulations, participants!

What else is new? I’m trying a new segment in the Gazette today…5 Facts, 1 TX Town, 1 Springsteen Lyric & 1 Famous Jew. Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Hope you dig it.

Alrighty, let’s catch up on the Southpaw Jones Virtual Excursion des Pieds! It was a weak week for me, as I was busy with Valentine’s celebrations and sick with some sort of cold/allergy thing. I took four days off! Nasty. But I’m gonna be kind to myself and include yesterday in my tally. 17 miles on foot, 5 miles on the bike, which means:

Week 1: 30 miles to Taylor, Texas
Week 2: 27 miles to Rockdale, Texas
Week 3: 20.7 miles to Caldwell, Texas
Week 4: 22.3 miles to Bryan/College Station, Texas
Week 5: 21 miles through Gibbons Creek Lake
Week 6: 24.4 miles to Hunstville, Texas
Week 7: 22 miles to…

TRINITY, TEXAS!

Population 2,721. Not…much…going…on.

5 Facts, 1 TX Town, 1 Springsteen Lyric & 1 Famous Jew
In no particular order:

1. Edward Craven Walker invented the lava lamp in the 1960’s.
2. He originally called it the “Astrolight” or “Astrolamp.”
3. Flower Mound, Texas
4. Lava lamps can be used as a physical random number generator, due to their chaotic behavior.
5. Wynona Ryder
6. The two ingredients in the lamp are transparent oil and translucent wax.
7. Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend, I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
8. Lava lamps generally operate at 140 °F.

Online Museum of the Week
Shaven Cats:

In honor of Ms. Britney Spears.

Sorry, no longer available.

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett: