Southpaw Jones

CRUELTY is now available!
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In honor of Wednesday’s CD release celebration at Bookpeople (7 pm, free beer!), here are the lyrics for track 4 of CRUELTY. If you already have the CD, you can follow along!

Fatty Arbuckle

Fatty Arbuckle presses his knuckle
Into my noggin, gives me a floggin’
Fatty Arbuckle releases a chuckle
I go for the ball bat, before I recall that

He prefers Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle is his real name
I defer to Roscoe Arbuckle
I’m never gonna call him Fatty again

Fatty Arbuckle moves at a fast pace
Good with a sight gag, quick with a pie face
He loved Buster Keaton as well as good eatin’
He dabbled in wordplay and died on his best day

But he prefers Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle is his real name
I defer to Roscoe Arbuckle
I’m never gonna call him Fatty again

Fatty Arbuckle accused of a murder
He said they made love, they said he hurt her
Three juries later, Fatty was let go
He wanted to work again, but everyone said no

Now he prefers William B. Goodrich
William B. Goodrich is his new name
I defer to William B. Goodrich
I’m never gonna call him Roscoe again
I’m never gonna call him Fatty again

as reported in The New York Times

September 5, 1908
WRIGHT FLIES AGAIN; ARMY MEN THRILLED
Second Experiment at Washington Results in Remarkably Successful Use of Aeroplane. CIRCLED COURSE 5 TIMES
Then Aviator Brought His Machine to Earth with the Lightness of a Bit of Thistledown.
WASHINGTON — Orville Wright once more demonstrated his mastery of the air late this afternoon at Fort Myer, when he made his second public ascent in the aeroplane, remaining up for 4 minutes and 15 seconds, circling the parade ground five and a half times and traversing a distance of over two and a half miles at an average speed of thirty-six miles an hour.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

When my grandmother had lots of renters, she would bring them downstairs and make them line up according to different criteria each morning. Sometimes by height, sometimes alphabetically. It was her way of keeping life interesting, this constantly changing…

Highlight here for answer: [boarder order]


Animals Squashed Against Glass

A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
Smedley Butler

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
7:00 pm
Celebrating the lyrics of CRUELTY!
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 472-5050
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