Southpaw Jones

Songmaker • Whimsicologist • Austinite

Tuesday, the Hamburgler of my Beefheart.

June 19, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting?

Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:

And now…
For your reading pleasure and intellectual debate…
An honest look at our planet’s finest beast…
One Dozen Things that SUCK about the Human Body

1. Ingrown toenails

2. Cancer

3. Cheek-biting molars

4. Ragged cuticles

5. Tendency to get fat and lumpy

6. You sit comfortably all your life, and suddenly your posture is terrible.

7. Involuntary face-touching when uncomfortable or lying.

8. The threat, the talk, and the fear of STONES.

9. The need for sleep, and so much of it!

10. Halitosis

11. Millennia of evolution…still got hair everywhere.

12. Super-sensitive eyeballs

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

Two pages of passive voice–just about any business document ever written, in other words, not tomention reams of bad fiction–make me want to scream. It’s weak, it’s circuitous, and it’s frequentlytortuous, as well. How about this: My first kiss will be recalled by me as how my romance withShayna was begun. Oh, man–who farted, right? A simpler way to express this idea–sweeter andmore forceful, as well–might be this: My romance with Shayna began with our first kiss. I’llnever forget it. I’m not in love with this because it uses with twice in four words, but at least we’reout of that awful passive voice.
Stephen King, On Writing

Online Museum of the Week
50s and 60s Album Covers:

Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

You wanna know how to join two pieces of metal together and keep them together? Go ask Don. He’s been around the longest.
Highlight here for answer: [elder welder]