– Saturday night there will be a big art party at 574 S. Main from 7 to 10 PM. It will be Lantana Projects’ Class of ’07: The Best Artwork of the Year party, featuring work by Lea Alexander, Elizabeth Alley, Susan Best, Sarah Boyce, and Dwayne Butcher, as well as about 30 more artists. $5 cover gets you entertainment by DJs The Defective Agency and Mind at Large. I’ve been told that this was one of THE parties on the arts circuit in Memphis last year, with about 1,000 people showing up. Put this one on your calendar – sounds too good to miss.
– There will be a follow-up discussion of the Jena 6 incident at the National Civil Rights Museum Thursday the 15th at 5:30 PM. Hear personal accounts from the Jena protesters, and discuss how the incident can impact Memphians locally. Guest panelists include Veronica Coleman-Davis, Mrs. Maxine Smith, and Dr. Darryl Tukufu.
– Memphis Blues Society will hold a Battle of the Bands this Thursday and Friday, November 15 and 16. The winner will advance to the International Blues Challenge in February 2008. In particular, please come out and support my friends Crash Kole and the BlueSouls, who have played Pearl’s and E&H Downtown and have a great sound. They deserve to make it to the IBC. (Edit: Forgot to say WHERE it will be – that’s kind of important. It will be at Neil’s, 1835 Madison, both nights.)
– Looks like I’m going to have to get on Walgreens again for letting the bums hang out in front of their store. As many of you know, I use Mountain Dew to fuel my brain cells during the day. My new office is about equal distance from Jack’s Food Store and Walgreens. So yesterday afternoon I took a break and turned right toward Walgreens for a Dew… then I saw four bums hanging out in front of the store begging, and turned back around and went to Jack’s. The economic impact of panhandling.
– One of the waitresses at the Saucer has given me a new nickname: “Pauly Pocket.” I spent hours wondering WTF she was talking about, then I got home and started Googling. Discovered there’s a line of dolls called Polly Pocket. Great. So I’m being compared to a small, plastic doll. Her reasoning is that I have long hair like the dolls do. Female logic at its finest. Really, I think this waitress is just jealous that I pay more attention to her little friend than I do her, and is trying to get herself noticed.
Trying to cut back on the drinking now that I have a job. So, I only had 8 beers at Pint Nite last night before I tabbed out. Then I decided I wasn’t back done and reopened my tab for one more. At least I stayed out of the double digits.
Tonight: The Rapscallions whoop some more ass at trivia, and begin collecting certificates for Rapscallion Party VI.
Time to go to work.