Southpaw Jones

Austinites! Come on out to Flipnotics @ the Triangle tonight at 8 pm for Matt the Electrician & yours truly, as featured on KUT’s Austin Music Minute today:
http://www.kut.org/items/show/11115.

The site will return to normal on Monday, January 7, 2008. For now, a filthy update from my friend and creator of the Dick Monologues, Ms. Spike Gillespie:

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year. We had so much fun with the Dick Monologues in 2007– what started out as a one night show turned into something bigger than we could have imagined. Thanks for stroking us.

Now we hope to grow the dick bigger. The show’s name is changing to Speaking of Dick and we’re moving to the Groten Theater, which is on Toomey Road and is part of Zach Scott. For now, we’ll stick with one or two shows per month with the hope of a real run sometime later this year.

Until now, we’ve sold out every show with no advertising except your help with word of mouth. This email is an invitation to our next show, on January 9th– that’s next Wednesday. It is also a request that you please– please please– send this note on to anyone you know who’d like to see us. I know a lot of people are holiday-hungover and wanting to cocoon. I say– au contraire! You must get the new year off to a laughter filled start and Speaking of Dick is how to do that. Doors are at 6:30, Show is at 7.

Sometime in the next 24 hours, our website: www.speakingofdick.com, will go live. For now, here’s a link for tickets. Please don’t wait to order yours. This is a very special show– we’ll be celebrating my birthday and Rudy’s birthday, too. Come have your… uh… cake… and eat it, too.

http://speakingofdick.frontgatetickets.com/ondate.php?t=1199858400

Also, because I am old enough now to merit more than one celebration, we are having a related dick/birthday event on January 13th. Dick-E-Oke at The Alamo Drafthouse downtown will feature some of the dick performers, some very special guests, and a dick-related sing-a-long with Austin’s premiere naughty boy band, Cedar Fever. Tickets for that event are very limited and available here.

http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=5115

Hope to see you in the new year,
Spike
www.myspace.com/dickmonologues

Happy New Year again! I hope you’re enjoying these tiny updates. The site will return to normal on Monday, January 7, 2008.

Here’s a genuine, pencil-on-paper-in-cursive blog entry from February 18, 1986:

Saturday, I mostly stayed home and there’s not much to tell but on Sunday we did alot. First we went to church then came back and ate lunch then we played some then we asked our dad to put up a tire for a swing and he did. We played on that until it was time for church again. After church we watched Mr. Mom and went to bed.

In the morning we got dressed and before anything else we went to go swing. Our mom went to school because she didn’t have a day off so we stayed home until our dad picked us up for lunch. We went to Ozark to a place called Dot’s. We got some hamburgers, drinks, and a comic book and we were ready to go. We went to the park to eat. Then our mother picked us up and took us home. Then we played on the tire again, watched TV, and went to bed.

Happy New Year! I hope you’re enjoying these tiny updates. The site will return to normal on January 7, 2008.

Here’s a decent tune for such a day as this, Everything’s Gonna Work Out, from the backyard collection, One in the Door, One in the Grave. Feel free to order the CD or snag the track on iTunes.