Southpaw Jones

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

1. The first harmonicas emerged in Vienna.

2. Oatmeal, Texas.

3. Vienna is home to a large brewery called Ottakringer.

4. Beer, in some form, can be traced back almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian writings describing daily rations of beer and bread to workers.

5. Monday when the foreman calls time, I’ve already got Friday on my mind.

6. The first literate societies developed in Mesopotamia in the late 4th millennium BC.

7. Oprah Winfrey started her book club in 1996 with The Deep End of the Ocean.

8. Shell Silverstein.

If I Had a Million Dollars
Unnecessary products that inexplicably tempt me:

Angel Kitty USB Keyboard
(somehow attached to a French maid outfit?)
15,750 Yen ($140.00)

Online Museum of the Week
Photographing Squirrels:

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

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.
William Wordsworth

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

Thank you, come again!
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