Southpaw Jones

Actually, Matt the Electrician and I are playing in Houston Saturday night! Join us at Anderson Fair. Details below.

Oh, and Happy Friday!

as reported in The New York Times

November 21, 1908
WON’T STUDY WITH NEGROES.
Grand Rapids Students Strike When Reinstated Colored Men Come In.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

These interior corridors have different doors for different rooms. Like a hotel! But these passages are special in that they are eternal! Come back today, or come back in 100 years, you’ll find that they are…

Highlight here for answer: [always hallways]


Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or .
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Maggie’s sister-in-law Julie took this little picture of us on Lake Travis.

I wish I was there right now.

as reported in The New York Times

November 19, 1908
SNEEZED HIMSELF TO DEATH.
Practical Joker’s Snuffthrowing Proves Fatal to a Paterson Man.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Here you see a mysterious etched plate that is really quite dangerous. The museum has stored it in a special case that reduces its power. When one comes in contact with the carved out design, it magically removes free will and turns the victim into an owned servant. You might not want to get too close to the…

Highlight here for answer: [enslaving engraving]


Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

The goal of creation is—to please the creation, i.e. the Creator wants to fill us with the very best. And until a man receives all the very perfect and the very best that has been ordained for him by the Creator, he experiences the lack of everything, and this is the sign that he hasn’t yet reached the goal of the creation.
Baruch Ashlag

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or .
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

I’m running late this morning, so I’ll have to tell you about my action-packed weekend tomorrow. Here are two pics from Saturday night at Jefferson Freedom Café in Fort Worth, thanks to Heather.

Ol’ Southpaw opening the show:

And Mr. Charlie King of the Asylum Street Spankers:

as reported in The New York Times

November 17, 1908
PRESIDENT SILENT.
No Answer to Criticism by the Lutheran Church.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I saw the parakeet in the pivotal scene, but it was obviously out of focus. What it the intention of the filmmaker to show this fowl so unclearly, and if so, what is the symbolism of the…

Highlight here for answer: [blurred bird]


Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, “What do I really feel about this?”
Robert Penn Warren

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or .
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Performing at The Neutral Ground Coffeehouse
January 16, 2003

as reported in The New York Times

November 11, 1908
PAINTED HIGH SCHOOL RED.
Nine Pupils Suspended, Having Refused to Tell What They Know.
PASSAIC, N.J. — For four hours the Board of Education last night cross-examined nine high school pupils in an effort to learn who painted the walls and sidewalks of the High School a glaring red on Hallowe’en, but adjourned at midnight without having accomplished anything.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

This is the worst Belgian batter cake I’ve ever had! Here, try it. Isn’t it an…

Highlight here for answer: [awful waffle]


Charles Alexander meets Barack Obama

Don’t fear god,
Don’t worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure.
Epicurus

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theatre
511 West 43rd Street 78751
AUSTIN, TX
For reservations, tickets and info: spike@spikeg.com
dickmonologues.com
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008
8:00 PM
CRUELTY Release Show!
Opening Bell – Mosaic
300 North Akard #300 75202
DALLAS, TX
214-665-BELL
openingbellcoffee.com
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
3:15 PM
Bill’s Records
1317 S. Lamar 75215
DALLAS, TX
Parking is free in the lot next to the store. Come to Bill’s and browse through all the music and memorabilia! CD’s, vintage records, collectors’ items, T-Shirts, buttons, artwork and more!
billsrecords.com
214-421-1500
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
7:30 PM
Opening for The Asylum Street Spankers!
Jefferson Freedom Cafe
1959 Sandy Lane 76112
FORT WORTH, TX
jeffersonfreedomcafe.org
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or .
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.