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

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three asides make a decent blog…

Did you know this? “At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07.” That won’t happen again for another thousand years. Prepare thyself! I’m a’gonna put goat blood on my door frame just in case.

I’m looking into buying a car…a RED car. Is this a mistake? Would this purchase change my identity in some major way? No, I’m not much of a “red guy.” But I’m not much of a “gold guy” either, and I’ve been driving a gold car for eight years without incident.

From http://nypost.com/seven/05032007/gossip/pagesix/easily_scared_pagesix_.htm:

May 3, 2007 — KINDERGARTEN kids in ritzy L.A. suburb Calabasas have been coming home to their parents and talking about the “weird man” who keeps coming to their class to sing “scary” songs on his guitar. The “weird” one turns out to be Bob Dylan, whose grandson (Jakob Dylan’s son) attends the school. He’s been singing to the kindergarten class just for fun, but the kiddies have no idea they’re being serenaded by a musical legend – to them, he’s just Weird Guitar Guy.

Wow, I used to live in Calabasas! I suspect the label “Weird Guitar Guy” may satisfy Mr. Dylan even more than “musical legend” these days.

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

Place of worship for Newton’s fruit.
Highlight here for answer: [apple chapel]

Online Museum of the Week
MoFA: The Museum of Food Anomalies:

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

Who can do, don’t want to; Who wants to, can’t do; Who knows how to do, won’t do it; Who does it, doesn’t know how to; and, so, badly goes the world.
Italian proverb

Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:

Thank you, come again!
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Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:

It’s time to get back to the self-pimpin’, my friends, because…

• My vacation from public life is over!
• Tonight marks the return of Matt the Electrician and yours truly to Café Mundi!
• Saturday, I’ll celebrate Cinco de Mayo in an East Austin community garden!
• Tuesday is the long-awaited Songwriter Tribute to Bruce Springsteen at the Cactus!

That’s right, I’m hitting the stage tonight for the first time since April 6. Will my unused singing voice hold up? Will my guitar calluses reform simply out of a moment’s need? Will there be cake? Matt the Electrician and I will answer all these questions and more tonight at Café Mundi, rain or shine.

Saturday is Cinco de Mayo, “Five of May” to the unilingual. I’ll perform as part of a fiesta and neighborhood open house in East Austin at El Jardin Alegree Community Garden. The event runs from 11am to 7pm, and I’m the last act of the day. Also look for food, massage, face-painting, arts, crafts, and solar power! Sounds like fun, no?

Tuesday is going to be a true treat for me, as I’ve assembled a group of singer/songwriters to celebrate the songs of Bruce Springsteen. Those artists include Matt the Electrician, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Nathan Hamilton, Abi Tapia, Graham Weber, Nakia, J.J. Barron, Mike Shoenfeld, and Ricky Stein. It’s a free show, but we’ll be asking for cash and canned food donations for the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, which I know The Boss would appreciate. I hope this will be the first annual such event at the Cactus, so join us in starting a new Austin tradition.

See y’all out there!

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
8:00 PM
Cafe Mundi
1704 E. 5th St.
Austin, TX
512-236-8634

http://cafemundi.com

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
6:00 PM
Cinco de Mayo Fiesta
El Jardin Allegre
Austin, TX
1pm Julian Decided
2pm Alex Dupree
3pm Mariachi Cocula
4pm The Archibalds
5pm Tiller’s Will
6pm Southpaw Jones

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
8:00 PM
Bruce Springsteen Hoot Night
Cactus Cafe
SW Corner of Texas Union, UT Campus
Austin, TX
512.475.6515

http://utexas.edu/student/txunion/ae/cactus/index.php?cactus=current

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

When you say comeback, it sounds like you’ve been somewhere. I’ve been so active.
Davy Jones

Online Museum of the Week
MoFA: The Museum of Food Anomalies:

Orange within an Orange!

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

Cow hide from down below!
Highlight here for answer: [nether leather]

Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:

Thank you, come again!
southpawjones.com
southpawjones.com
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Clear connections from the people’s encyclopedia:

From Southpaw to Billionaire!

1. Southpaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed#Southpaw
“Despite the suppression, there have been many famous left-handed people…”

2. Famous Left-Handed People
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_left-handed_people
“Nelson Rockefeller – Failed at childhood conversion to right-handedness. At the dinner table during Rockefeller’s boyhood, his father tied a string to Rockefeller’s left wrist and yanked it viciously every time the boy used his left hand.”

3. Nelson Rockefeller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller
“…American Vice President, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman.”

4. Philanthropist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropist
“Warren Buffett – pledged USD$30.7 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”

5. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) is the largest transparently operated[2] charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006.”

6. Bill Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
“Forbes magazine’s list of The World’s BILLIONAIRES has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995…”

Well, that was fun.

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

Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock

Online Museum of the Week
MoFA: The Museum of Food Anomalies:

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

Promote the growth of a list of members.
Highlight here for answer: [foster roster]

Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:

Thank you, come again!
southpawjones.com
southpawjones.com
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2007 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.