Southpaw Jones

Tonight is the night for Flipnotics @ the Triangle, where Matt the Electrician and I will acoustically rock the stage at 8 pm. The song title of the week is Fit Medicine, and man, are my wings tired!

And now, southpawjones.com presents Sounds from the Receiving End of New Employee Training:

• Nice to meet you.

• Sure, sure, sure.

• Uh-huh.

• I think I’ll figure it out.

• Right.

• When do you guys take lunch?

• Got it.

• I see.

• No, I get that, it’s just…

• (random movie quote followed by nervous laughter)

• So this is it? All day long?

as reported in The New York Times

February 28, 1908
EDISON OPERATED ON, CONDITION CRITICAL
Grave Fears Felt for the Great Inventor After a Second Operation for Mastoiditis.
HIS OLD WOUND INFECTED Family at His Bedside In Eye and Ear Hospital — Recovery “Probable,” Official Bulletin Says.
Thomas A. Edison, the electrician and inventor, underwent a second operation yesterday in the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, 210 East Sixty-fourth Street, for mastoiditis. At an early hour this morning it was said that the inventor’s condition was exceedingly grave. It was said to be quite possible that he might not live out the night.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I’m a rookie on the force, so I don’t get the exciting jobs. My current task is to hunt down and arrest young men and women who run through public places in the nude. That’s right, your tax dollars are paying for me to be a…

Highlight here for answer: [streaker seeker]


Hilarious Science Fair Experiments

I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free.
William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925-2008

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