Southpaw Jones

20×2 was great fun last night. It’s a fine event for people who enjoy nerds and show-and-tell, like me. I was the last performer to answer the question “What’s the Difference?” My original plan was to write a goofy song about the undeniable coolness of left-handed people, but then I decided I’d just musically list well-known lefties and well-known righties, so the crowd could come to their own conclusions. I don’t have a recording of my two minutes, but I can at least share the lyrics:

Oprah Winfrey is left-handed
Tyra Banks is right
Kurt Cobain was left-handed
Courtney Love is right

Paul McCartney is left-handed
And Michael Jackson is right
Whoopie Goldberg is left-handed
Rosie O’Donnell is right

Reagan, Bush, Clinton, they were all left-handed!
But Georgie Dubya is right
He says the surge is working, boys
And George W. Bush is right

Handed

Barack Obama is left-handed
Hillary Clinton is right
Pablo Picasso is left-handed
Britney Spears is right

Jimi Hendrix, he was left-handed
John Wilkes Booth was right
He said “The South will rise again”
And John Wilkes Booth was right

Handed

as reported in The New York Times

March 11, 1908
TO STOP DANCE HALL EVILS.
Assembly Passes a Bill Prohibiting Liquor Selling Among Other Things.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Don’t you dare touch that strip of pork! I claimed it, it’s mine. Step away from the…

Highlight here for answer: [taken bacon]


Great Clocks of Christendom

The drunken text message is mightier than the sword.
J.H Evans

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
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Zilker Park (Spooky) Kite Festival 2008
Pics by Maggie Wilhite