Southpaw Jones

Part 2 in a 26-part series:

• back seat driver
• beat a dead horse
• beating around the bush
• bend over backwards
• between a rock and a hard place
• bite off more than you can chew
• batten down the hatches
• bear the brunt of
• beef up
• behind schedule
• bird in hand is worth two in the bush
• blow one’s own horn
• bone of contention
• bottom out
• bring home the bacon
• bring up the rear
• buy a pig in a poke

as reported in The New York Times

June 26, 1908
HAMMERSTEIN USES TROWEL.
Lays Cornerstone of His Philadelphia Opera House.
PHILADELPHIA — While Oscar Hammerstein was talking with several persons to-day at Broad and Poplar Streets, the site of his new Opera House, his son, Arthur Hammersteine, called to him: “Come, father, let’s get this done first and then those gentlemen can have you.”

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

She’s from an East African republic, but her favorite food is the traditional Native American dish of steam-cooked corn dough filled with various meat and things. I dare you to try and steal some of the…

Highlight here for answer: [Somali’s tamales]


Hairstyles that Mom Won’t Approve

I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I’d rather not recall just now.
Anna Akhmatova

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theatre
AUSTIN, TX

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SOLD OUT!
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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008
Cactus Cafe
The Texas Union, 24th & Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
CD Release Celebration for CRUELTY!
(512) 475-6515

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