Southpaw Jones

Another weekend comes crashing to finality with another Monday, rounding out the circle of life. This 2.5 day chunk of freedom featured tex-mex food, samba, Jeff Goldblum, bears on PBS, Twin Peaks, hot tea, singer-songwriters, Dunkin’ Donuts, Super Bowl XXIVCMX, Trailer Park Boys, and Skip-Bo. More fun than function, thank god.

Sunday afternoon found me waiting with Maggie to see The Savages outside a movie theater. (Excellent film, tastefully done, wonderful pacing, perfect acting, in case you were wondering.) An older woman came out of the lobby saying, “No Country for Old Men? More like No Country for Anybody!” I guess she didn’t care for it.

Now that it’s February, I can share with you a few very real search strings that led people to southpawjones.com in January. My stats program tells me so. Enjoy!

• janet and justin
• we musn’t smoke so we must
• squirrels on crack
• HOW FAR IS BRYAN TEXAS FROM GEORGETOWN TEXAS
• a singing jew
• Rick he was a young boy he had a heart of stone
• doot doo doo
• mannequin jokes
• naked acorn
• How do you respond: You are so fine
• One happy squaw in wigwam…happy as mongoose
• a bless you for hiccups
• rhyme for 44th birthday
• why do professional wrestlers get divorced
• you’ll take away the biggest part of me

as reported in The New York Times

BLANCHE BATES FIGHTS FIRE.
Actress Leads Bucket Brigade That Saved Her Country Home.
February 4, 1908
OSSINING, N.Y., Feb, 8. — Sparks from an open fireplace in the home of Miss Blanche Bates, the star in Belasco’s play, “The Girl of the Golden West,” caused a fire last night that bid fair to destroy the old Bailey homestead, which Miss Bates purchased and remodeled about three years ago.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Oh, I can’t think of the name of it! It’s one of those….I don’t know…part of the small boat with the rowlocks for oars. Does anyone know the name of that…

Highlight here for answer: [dinghy thingy]


Wild Animals by Kent Rogowski
[stuffed animals inside out]

Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.
Simon Soloveychik

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008
9:00 PM
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
Doors open at 8!
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EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
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Rob’s Super Bowl leftovers, February 3, 2008.