Southpaw Jones

Please take a moment to vote for Southpaw Jones as Best Songwriter in The Austin Chronicle Music Poll, http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/musicpoll/07/. You don’t have to live in Austin to vote, and you don’t have to believe he deserves it.

Here is the challenge sent forth from The Late Show with David Letterman this week: Top Ten Little-Known Facts About Mike Huckabee.

Here are my contributions:

10. Once performed all roles from the Wizard of Oz in a one-man show.

9. Doesn’t believe in gravity. We’re all just held on Earth by one of God’s many fingers.

8. Tips 17% plus a Gideon Bible.

7. Doesn’t believe in New Hampshire.

6. All that “weight” he lost was actually Chuck Norris’s love child.

5. Calls Skunks “Flower” without irony.

4. Brother of Satan.

3. Doesn’t believe in Ron Paul.

2. Claims to have created and trademarked “Aw, shucks.”

1. Anti-gay Republican…there simply must be pictures of this man in a sequin dress.

as reported in The New York Times

THE EMPLOYERS’S LIABILITY DECISION
A bad law for a good purpose. That is practically the judgment of a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States as to the National law fixing the liability of employers engaged in Inter-State commerce. No one will dispute that the general purpose of the law was good in the sense that it was humane, though there is room for difference of opinion as to its efficiency and expediency.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Those older guys told us to go hunting for this animal we’ve never heard of. At first, I trusted their sensational stories, but we’ve been out here for hours making funny noises to no avail. Do y’all think it’s all a big lie? Maybe they just fed us a bunch of…

Highlight here for answer: [snipe hype]


Animated Musicians

All very serious revolutionary propositions begin as huge jokes. Otherwise they would be stamped out by the lynching of their first exponents.
George Bernard Shaw

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

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Speaking of Dick
Zach Scott - Groten Theater
1426 Toomey Road (78704)
AUSTIN, TX
speakingofdick.frontgatetickets.com
Performing as part of a wonderful ensemble.