Quote of the evening: “Paul, you’re the popular voice of all us fuck-ups downtown.” Unfortunately I can’t remember who said that. Think it may have been someone I’ve seen at Sleep Out Louie’s before, but the name escapes me. Oh well, can’t win ’em all.
Some advice I’ve given people moving downtown for the first time over the years, and thought I’d share with you tonight:
1) Whatever your food & entertainment (read: alcohol) budget was in other parts of the city, double it. It still won’t be enough, but if I told you to triple it (more realistic), you might second-guess moving down here.
2) Whatever your current clothing size is, starting buying clothes in the next larger size. You’ll understand why soon.
My trivia team The Rapscallions finished out of the money for only the second time since December 1. I think it’s because Carmel wasn’t there. When Trivia Guy announced the three winning teams, people kept coming up to me and asking, “I missed the Rapscallions announcement, what did we win?” Nothing.
After trivia ended, I intended to walk home and get a full night’s rest… but Big Foot intervened. ASSIGNMENT TO ALL MY BLOG READERS: I found out that the $5 34 oz. Blue Moon isn’t necessarily here to stay. The distributor ran out of Bud Select and gave them Blue Moon instead. So, please go by Big Foot and tell Shawn to keep the Blue Moon.
While I was at Big Foot I had hot wings with celery, carrots, fries and blue cheese dip. I didn’t have any purple cupcakes with sprinkles though. Sorry, inside joke… I’d link to the blogger that inspired it, but she’s kind of hot (at least from the pics I’ve seen) so why would I want to introduce 150 new male readers to her?
While I sat at Big Foot I watched several episodes of Rachael Ray’s $40 a day show on the Food Network. We should put together Downtown Memphis on $0 a day and have some of our local bums host it. Half-finished Coors Light in a trash can on Beale Street? Yum-O!
So I have tickets for the Grammy party at Hard Rock (open bar, free food) Sunday night as a result of whoring my blog out for them a couple of posts ago. I guess I need to find a date between now and Sunday. Also, my neighbors are talking about having an Oscar party the 25th; I’m undecided what to do about that. On one hand, there’ll be some damn good food. On the other, I never watch movies, so why would I watch a movie awards show? We’ll see.
Let’s see if I can burp without having to get out the computer screen cleaning kit I bought at Office Max yesterday… successful.
Looks like I may be doing all-you-can-eat wings at Hooters in the PM Wednesday, which is today due to my being up so late.
I’m feeling the need to lie down NOW so that’ll do it for this post.