Southpaw Jones

My post-vacation return to normalcy continues tonight at 8 pm, as I’ll perform with Matt the Electrician at Flipnotics @ the Triangle in Austin. Tonight’s Song Title Challenge is Full Body Experience. What will I come up with? Your guess is as good as mine! Come on down tonight to find out.

After posting a whiny blog yesterday about the work-a-day world, I’ve decided to be proactive and find a new way out of the rat race. I think it’s time for me to write a book. In fact, I long to be the last person to produce each type of media before it becomes obsolete. “Southpaw Jones was the last man to release a compact disc,” they’ll say in 2056, “and then he killed the very last tree to make something called a tome!”

Let’s say I were to propose and/or write a book based on the format of this here site, including non-fiction essays, short stories, poetry, even Rhyme Time. I’d need a super title to get my foot in the door of any respectable publisher. So let’s get started! Rome was not built in a day, the journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step, and I was born and raised in the briar patch! Here are some potential titles with my name attached to every single one for effect:

Missle Annie and other Specificities
by Southpaw Jones

If It Ain’t Broke, Take Its Money
by Southpaw Jones

Church-Going for Non-Believers
Finding Truth in Dogma and Free Coffee on Sunday Morning
by Southpaw Jones

You’re Doing Great and other Lies
by Southpaw Jones

Grace in the Face of Mace
by Southpaw Jones

The Slightly Flawed Bush Presidency
by Southpaw Jones

“Where’s the Far?” and Other Cowboy Requests for Slower Pace
by Southpaw Jones

What do you think? Is there any gold here?

as reported in The New York Times

May 8, 1908,
WANTS NEW HYMNAL.
Episcopal Church Clubs Hear Recommendation for Fresher Tunes.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Do you like the painting? The upright tripod behind it is more impressive, if you ask me. It moves around the room on tiny wheels, displaying my favorite works in different locales. Unfortunately, it runs on the most expensive type of fuel. Trucker fuel, no less! But I can afford it, and I’m very proud of my…

Highlight here for answer: [diesel easel]


Ugly Bugs

What do I want from this life? What makes you happy is not enough. All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want to be proud of myself. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven’t done.
Tom Hurndall

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