Southpaw Jones

Happy Friday! I’m just going to post the new Aimee Mann song Thirty One Today, because, well, I’m turning thirty-one next week. It sounds like a sad song, lyrically, until you find out that Aimee Mann is 47. Then it becomes darkly funny. Dark humor is definitely one of those things that grows richer and more enjoyable as you age. God bless it, and God bless Aimee Mann. (Thanks, Stereogum.)

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as reported in The New York Times

April 4, 1908
SCARE FOR SPANISH KING.
Youth Dashes at His Carriage — Demented, Not an Anarchist.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

This multi-grain loaf is talking to me! Should I respond to what that…

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When Geeks Have Children

I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.
Tom Petty

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
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AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
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SAUTRDAY, APRIL 19
8:00 PM
Opening for Will Kimbrough
Bend Studio
5014 McKinney Ave. 75205
DALLAS, TX
214.841.9642
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$20, Doors at 7 pm.