Southpaw Jones

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or .
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records or End of an Ear in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.

It’s Thursday, which is the new Friday, because I’ll perform at Flipnotics @ the Triangle tonight! Austinites, come on out at 8 pm for a live peek at my schemes.

Speaking of shrieking girls, the wonderful Abi Tapia sent me this paragraph from a concert review by Craig Shelburne:

SAVANNAH, Ga. — It was the night the lights went out in Georgia, but that didn’t stop Taylor Swift from playing a rare headlining show at Savannah Civic Center on Friday night (Aug. 15). An underground explosion a few hours before the sold-out show killed electricity throughout the downtown area, but thanks to a generator, the production went on as planned, just a few minutes behind schedule. But if the venue could have somehow harnessed all the excitement from the shrieking pre-teen and teenage girls, the city — and probably the whole state — would never have a power shortage ever again.

It seems that like the keytar craze, the idea of using adolescent female gusto to provide power is spreading throughout the universal consciousness like wildfire. Why, it’s just like that song I wrote, the sort-of title track for my new CD, “The Cruelty of Teenage Girls”!

Listen to it here.

as reported in The New York Times

August 21, 1908
MOB WOULD LYNCH NEGRO.
1,500 Lynn, Mass., Citizens Try to Take Burglar from Captor.
LYNN, Mass. — A mob of 1,500 people with shouts of “Lynch him! lynch him!” tried to take away Henry Tyler, a negro, aged 30 years, from a reserve officer in an alleyway near the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company’s Building here to-night, and had severely pounded the colored man when seven policemen came to the rescue and succeeded in getting the prisoner to the station house before he was seriously hurt.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

If 19 is too few, and 21 is too many, that should make…

Highlight here for answer: [twenty plenty]


Popcorn Cat

“Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Emily Dickinson

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2008
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 pm
Wyldwood House Concert
4205 Wyldwood Road
AUSTIN, TX
wyldwood.startlogic.com
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Celebrating the lyrics of CRUELTY!
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 472-5050
www.bookpeople.com