Southpaw Jones

Southpaw Jones presents
Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
Wednesday means Café Mundi at 8 pm, featuring the return of The Electric One, Matt the Electrician. Tomorrow night, I’ll join Melissa Greener & Gretchen Phillips at Café Caffeine.

Is Butterfinger a good breakfast food? Obviously not, but peanut butter has protein. What about its bastard cousin, candy bar peanut butter? Obviously, natural PB rules the Peanut Butter Kingdom. His head is anointed with oil.

After church in Portland, Raina dropped me off in something called the Pearl District. It’s an odd but fitting name for a place that was once an irritant to the townsfolk. Now it boasts a myriad of shops, restaurants, bars, and pretty people.

I got a bleu-cheese-bacon burger. Check. I walked through a decent record store. Check. Both were opening acts for the main event, which I whole-heartedly recommend to any and everyone: a trip to Powells Bookstore, “the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world!” How big is it? Easy answer: a city block, multiple stories. Metaphysical answer: as big as the hopes & dreams of a reading generation. Personal answer: big enough to fill a Sunday afternoon and still leave me wanting more.

I meandered for hours before finding the in-store coffeehouse. Color-themed room after color-themed room. Have you noticed I love quotes? Well, the collection of quote collections was two shelves with about 8 rows each. Every time I though I was finished, I remembered something else I was passionate about: sheet music, marketing, travel, pop culture, journals. That’s the great thing about bookstores, especially huge ones. If you stay in there long enough, it will awaken some part of you that has been sleeping.

When I finally started thinking about the Fun Time Gazette and web stuff in general, I realized that Powells had no computer section. Wow, that’s a pretty stiff weakness, I thought. Sure, computer books are ugly and out-of-date before they’re printed, but I like to look through them for ideas. In disbelief, I returned to the front, or one of the “fronts,” and discovered that something called Technical Powells was down the road two blocks. That’s right. And guess how big that place is…

Check this out: http://www.powells.com/trip/
They’ve got a contest for an amazing trip to Portland and Powells. I’ve already entered. If you win, you have to take me.

Spike Gillespie presents
A Haiku History of the World
A look at our past, / seventeen syllables and / three lines at a time:

Soaring Angels prove
in spite of the strength of Bonds
Giants sometimes fall.

Southpaw Jones presents
Two (2) Pathetic Things
Humility is our only hope:
1] unemployment
2] employment

Southpaw Jones presents
Paw Prints
Pics of Southpaw, his environ, and his interweb:
David Byrne makes some cool music and cool art. Here’s one of his Tree Drawings:

Southpaw Jones presents
Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:
Single number found on a particular tool
Highlight here for answer: [widget digit]

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