Southpaw Jones

Seven minutes of tension and horror
Awaits the new Martian explorer
Have they planned well enough?
If the landing is rough
It’ll be tough to hire a restorer

California joined the chic
When they granted gay marriage last week
I’m all for the passion
But that rite is old-fashioned
I guess they really do dig antiques

As public interest has shifted to low key
David Cook holds the horn of the hokey
The weekly recital
Called American Idol
Crowned him King of Karaoke

This posting is late, I admit it
If you’re cursing my name, please quit it
It’s Friday, praise dog
If you dig this blog
Tuesday, I’ll return to transmit it

as reported in The New York Times

May 23, 1908
BAD EXPLOSION IN PARIS.
Two Killed and Many Injured in a Sugar Factory Accident.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

When you experience the sensation of brushing your head on the top of the room, you know you’ve bounced too high on your pogo stick. We professional indoor pogo-ers call this the….

Highlight here for answer: [ceiling feeling]


Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

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
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theater
AUSTIN, TX
dickmonologues.com
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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
9:00 PM
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant St. 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
Doors open at 8:00pm