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Thursday is too busy!

May 24, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

It’s a sad affair of states, fair reader. I’ve just got a lot going on, including preparations for a weekend at the Kerrville Folk Festival with sweet Maggie.

Here’s what we’ll look like in a couple o’ days:

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Wednesday of many colors.

May 23, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

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

I’ll perform at Cafe Mundi tonight with Matt the Electrician, and that’s all I have time to type right now! Ach!

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
8:00 PM
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Cafe Mundi
1704 E. 5th St.
Austin, TX
512-236-8634
http://www.cafemundi.com

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

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

3.Online Museum of the Week
LEGO Musicians:

4.Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Practice game between pictures.
Highlight here for answer: [image scrimmage]

5.Abi Tapia’s America
Our own wanderlusty singer/songwriter offers a view from her lens:

Chiniese and Canadian Food. Mmmm.

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Tuesdaypaloosa.

May 22, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

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

10 RANDOM ACTIVITIES THAT MAKE ME HAPPY

• Drinking milk
• Complaining
• Sex
• Watching HBO shows
• Sleepin’
• Making a song
• Making people laugh
• Making people fake laugh
• Eating out with my girlfriend
• Noting the rare occurrence of silence

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

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off.
Angela Carter

3.Online Museum of the Week
LEGO Musicians:

BOB DYLAN

4.Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Do you have a safe place for pepper, too?
Highlight here for answer: [salt vault]

5.Abi Tapia’s America
Our own wanderlusty singer/songwriter offers a view from her lens:

Dare to Compare! The best Econo Lodge in America, Champaign, IL:

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MONDAY!

May 21, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

1.Do it With Style
Fun words to say while belching, stretching, or answering the phone:

TOME
WONK
FLANGER
CHAMOIS
MOLARS

2.Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

To separate at no time in the past or the future.
Highlight here for answer: [never sever]

3.Online Museum of the Week
LEGO Musicians:

NIRVANA

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

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
John Chrysostom

5.Abi Tapia’s America
Our own wanderlusty singer/songwriter offers a view from her lens:

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Michigan City Power Plant

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Friday can’t handle the twooth.

May 18, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

1.5 Wiki-Facts, 1 TX Town, 1 Springsteen Lyric & 1 famous lefty!
In no particular order:

1. In Muslim countries, weekends consist of Friday and Saturday.

2. A weekend warrior is a person who works 40 hours during a Friday-Sunday period or a person who lives two different lives, one on the weekend and one during the work week.

3. Well, it’s Saturday night. You’re all dressed up in blue. I been watchin’ you a while. Maybe you been watchin’ me, too.

4. The Jewish Sabbath, known as Shabbat, is from sunset Friday to when it is fully dark on Saturday.

5. Tarzan, Texas

6. The early industrial period in Europe saw a six-day work week with only Sunday off, but some workers had no days off at all.

7. Bill Clinton

8. The French Revolutionary Calendar allowed decadi, one out of ten days, as a leisure day.

3.Online Museum of the Week
Pimp My Bookcart:

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

Mexican food’s great, but it’s essentially all the same ingredients, so there’s a way you’d have to deal with all these stupid questions. “What is nachos?” “…Nachos? It’s tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetables.” “Oh, well then what is a burrito?” “Tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetables.” “Well then what is a tostada?” “Tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetables.” “Well then what i-” “Look, it’s all the same! Why don’t you say a Spanish word and I’ll bring you something.
Jim Gaffigan

5.Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Lather-producing twilight.
Highlight here for answer: [foaming gloaming]

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