Southpaw Jones

Please take a moment to vote for Southpaw Jones as Best Songwriter in The Austin Chronicle Music Poll, http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/musicpoll/07/. You don’t have to live in Austin to vote, and you don’t have to believe he deserves it.

This week’s topic for Letterman’s contest is Top Ten Slogans for the New Driverless Car. I don’t even bother to actually enter anymore, but I like to test drive the ideas. Having typed that:

• Go Sleep Till Brooklyn

• Finally more time to touch yourself.

• Who wants control when hurtling down the road at 70 mph?

• HALp yourself to the future.

• Includes “Tailgaiting Jerk” setting.

• Enjoy guilt-free viewing of the television that’s already in your dashboard.

• Imagine beating your kids with TWO hands!

• Unhindered exploration of glorious American FM radio.

• One more way to sleepwalk through the day.

• Stay out late and blame it on the Taurus.

• Nachos and a view.

as reported in The New York Times

January 15, 1908
CANAL TO COST $300,000,000
From the original estimate of $135,000,000 as the cost of the Panama Canal the figures have been going steadily upward until the latest estimate, made to-day by Col. Goethals, Chief Engineer and Chairman of the Canal Commission, is that the canal would cost $300,000,000.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Two people came to see the house today, but the one who arrived last has really bad credit. We should probably sell to the…

Highlight here for answer: [prior buyer]


Cool Birth vs Crazy Death Of Stars

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon

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

Sunshine Walk-a-Bout w/ Cell Phone Cam
January 13, 2008