Southpaw Jones

Good morning! Happy Monday! I am happy to return to business as usual here at southpawjones.com and southpawjones.net and southpawjones.cute.butt. I took a nice long break from the full site to survive the holidays and reflect upon how I might improve things around here.

Folks seem to enjoy Rhyme Thyme and the Online Museum of the Week. Awesome! I feel the need to post Upcoming Show(s) to remind everyone, including myself, what my short-term calendar looks like. Quotopia allows me to make use of my short-attention-span quotation book collection, and I enjoy the search for pithy truth in the morning. I have to keep all these features going for the love of the game if nothing else.

So, if I’m going to improve the site in this still-fresh 2008, the only answer is more.

More!

I’m adding two new features to the daily offerings here. The first is 100 Years Ago (as reported in The New York Times). America’s daily recently opened their archives to the public and eliminated subscription fees, so anyone and everyone can now search from 1851 to the present. I hope to find an interesting sentence from the early 20th Century that corresponds with each weekday’s date here in modern times. They can’t sue me for sharing a sentence, can they?

Also, I’m displaying a daily Paw Print, a picture of, from, and/or regarding my life. Many of these, like the one below, will be funny faces I made on my MacBook. I find it a bit indulgent, personally, but here’s the thing: People like pictures! I have to balance out all the word-worship with something, and I need a reason to take more pictures, since my phone, my digital camera, and my computer are silently begging me to do so.

I hope you now enjoy SEVEN bits of fun and info here each weekday. Let me know what you think. Skip the picture? 100 years ago is boring and musty? You’d rather have a Sudoku? I aim to please, and I hope you add daily visits to your routine in this new year.

Tell your friends!

as reported in The New York Times

SAFEGUARDING WARSHIPS
Orders have been sent to Portsmouth to rush with all possible speed the work of providing the warships of the British Navy with refrigerating plants, designed to keep down the temperature of the magazines. The innovation is the result of the terrible explosion aboard the French battleship Jena.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Why, it’s obviously an annual event! Can’t you see that? It’s…

Highlight here for answer: [clearly yearly]


Animated Musicians

If it were not for these stories, jokes, jests, I should die; they give vent - are the vents - of my moods and gloom.
Abraham Lincoln

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
http://www.flipnotics.com

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Speaking of Dick
Zach Scott - Groten Theater
1426 Toomey Road (78704)
AUSTIN, TX
speakingofdick.frontgatetickets.com
Performing as part of a wonderful ensemble.