Southpaw Jones

Happy Friday from me to you! I’m taking a bit of a vacation next week, so I won’t present a full Southpaw Jones Gazette each day. I may have a five-part “Best Of” series instead, so come on back Monday.

I sure do have a ton of reasons to be thankful. I live in the best city in the world, I’ve got an easy job, I romance a wonderful young woman, and I get to play music for real live people with ears to hear. Good friends, good food, good health, and creativity abound.

I am thankful for this site, too, and all the folks who visit it. Daily creative output is such an important thing for weird people like me, and it helps immeasurably to know that I’m not sharing my little ideas with thin air.

In 2007, I’ve put together over 57,000 words for this Gazette, and I’ve learned the value of doing a little something every day. Your e-mails, comments, and personal bits of encouragement keep my engine going. Happy Thanksgiving, and as always, THANKS for stopping by.

Th newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.
Finley Peter Dunne

Johanna’s Tambourine Art Inspired by Stevie Nicks




One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

There’s a bitter old lady ‘round these parts who gets a big kick out of disrupting dates between gentlemen and lasses. She likes to keep young couples from moving toward marriage, so she’s always…

Highlight here for answer: [thwarting courting]

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