Happy Wednesday! Today’s post is being brought to you by the free Wi-Fi at High Point Coffee.
– Rep. Steve Cohen will be holding a town hall meeting tomorrow night, February 22, at the National Civil Rights Museum at 6:30. If you live in the 9th District and want to give your congressman some feedback, this is your chance to do it.
Steve will be bringing Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) with him. Conyers is most famous for his work on the 1974 Judiciary Committee that worked to investigate the Watergate scandal. He’s now the chair of the Judiciary Committee, on which Cohen serves.
– The Folk Alliance is hosting a convention downtown this weekend, and Saturday will be their North American Folk Music and Dance Festival, with 150 bands on 10 stages from 6 PM to 1 AM. Wow! The event will be at the Cook Convention Center, and tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Dammit… I want to go to this so bad… why did it have to happen the night Sleep Out Louie’s closes? The folk festival sounds so different and unique that I may have to alter my plans of spending the entire evening at SOL, and split my time between the two events. Anyone reading this plan on going to the folk fest?
– Suggestion for Sleep Out’s: I’ve heard you guys are bringing a lot of dignitaries, former regulars and former employees in for the final night. I’d like to suggest that you fly Diana, the Romanian waitress who worked there from July to October, in for Saturday night’s grand finale. Do this and I promise I’ll give your new steakhouse lots of free publicity in my blog, when it opens. You want the place to look its best for the final night, don’t you?
– While surfing the Web this morning, I read that Eureka Springs, Arkansas has voted to decriminalize marijuana. A spokesman who voted in favor of the proposal explained that it still doesn’t mean the town thinks it’s acceptable to smoke weed; but rather, they just don’t feel that people’s lives should be permanently ruined with a criminal record just because they were caught with a joint. I tell ya, a lot of people tend to write Arkansas off because it’s a Southern state, but it’s a lot more progressive than people realize.
– Looks like Philip drunk-posted last night. In his post he mentions that he bought a pair of Speedos, and I’m sitting here thinking that I’m glad I haven’t eaten today, because my breakfast surely would be all over the floor here at High Point if I had.
– I’ll probably give The Flying Fish a try tonight. I have a lot of work to do – I’m rolling out a new website tomorrow, and there’ll be an announcement about it here – so I’ll probably get the food to go.
– The Rapscallions took third place in trivia last night, bringing our gift certificate total to $345. Pete the Trivia Guy was out of town, so Charles the trivia guy from the East Bumblefuck Saucer filled in for him. Charles has a slightly different style, offering two free beers for the team with the first correct answer to each bonus question. That almost caused us to rush up there with incorrect guesses a couple of times. We gotta be careful to resist the temptation to do that; besides, how would we split two free beers among 13 team members?
I had the best Mardi Gras beads that I’ve collected over the past 5 years around my neck, because one of this blog’s regular readers indicated that she might come to the Saucer, and she might be convince to flash me for beads. But alas, she didn’t show. Guess she had to work late. One of the Saucer’s cutest Beer Goddesses attempted to sweet-talk me out of the purple strand of beads with a shot glass hanging from them, but I resisted.
– And, lunch hour’s over. Back to the world of the cubicles. See you later…