(Edit Saturday morning: Forgot to hit Publish before going to bed last night.)
The Majestic Grille will have a preview of their new big screen tomorrow for the Tigers-UCLA game. The big screen, which will be used in the future to show movies from the era in which the Majestic was a movie theater, will be used to show the Final Four. Tip-off is 5:07 PM.
Another Final Four viewing destination… the Red Rooster will open at 3 PM today for Final Four viewing, with $1.50 drafts, 500 square feet of TVs, and $10 Maxalicious Pizzas until end of game. The Chris Love Experience will play later in the evening. I’ve watched a couple of games there and the Rooster is a great game-viewing spot. You can e-mail them at memphisrooster@yahoo.com to reserve tables.
I went to Itta Bena after work for the third night in a row. Had a bowl of their She Crab Soup and drinks. It was excellent. Friends came in and I hung out and talked. It was a great time. I’m getting seriously bored with the Saucer as an immediate after-work destination and am looking to try new things. I don’t know if my wallet can handle Itta Bena becoming the new Saucer, though.
Watched the traffic light at Second and Beale through Itta Bena’s blue-tinted windows for a while. Every time it turned red, it looked like it was out. Made me wonder if that’s what red color-blindness is like.
All the Itta Bena employees were surfing my blog on the GM’s laptop. They came across my “kick my BFF to the curb, or keep her?” article, and shouted out in unison “CAN HER!!!”
Speaking of my BFF… after I tabbed out at Bena, I went to the Saucer, and complained to the manager about the recent beers that didn’t get scanned on to my plate total. He asked, “It wasn’t Man-Meghan who lost them, was it?” Heh. I got the three most recent lost beers put back on. It actually wasn’t her… these were beers that got lost after her departure.
A few minutes later, my BFF got another new nickname. I was sitting at the rail with Bicycle Bobby when my BFF’s mini-me came by and flipped me off. Bobby commented what a bad attitude “both the mini-me and the maxi-me” have. Heh heh. Maxi-me. That makes her sound like a tampon. “That’s appropriate since she acts like she’s on the rag 360 days a year,” said Bobby.
Oh! Guess what! Remember how my BFF got a new face piercing about a week ago? Well, guess what her mini-me had tonight… a new face piercing. How predictable is that.
I’m considering getting one more T-shirt made with my BFF’s picture on it and giving it to Downtown homeless person Scratchy to wear. Scratchy needs a new shirt once every two months or so.
Bicycle Bobby got up to take a whiz at one point. “I’m going to trade one in,” he said. When he came back he commented that the Saucer should give you 25 cents off your beer when you trade the previous one in. Kind of like some supermarkets give you 25 cents back when you bring your own grocery bags. Maybe I should lobby the Saucer for this idea. It seems very environmentally friendly. I could have my friends at the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center stage a sit-in about beer recycling until the Saucer agrees to hold a town hall meeting on the issue.
Beer report:
Previous total: $1,039.50
Beers 176, 177, and 178 by my count (but 172, 173, and 174 according to the Saucer, assuming they re-credited me with the three beers I complained about tonight):
Paulaner Salvator $6.00
Newcastle draft $4.50
Rogue Shakespeare Stout $5.50
Tip: $16.00 x ~ 30% = $5.00
Total: $21.00
Grand total: $1,060.50
Home extremely early (12:30 AM) for a weekend night, eating Paul’s Drunkass Food, which tonight consists of a Texas Toast Burger from Huey’s. I hate it that I’m home so early on a weekend night, but “Rock Out with Your Cock Out” night at the Red Rooster took its toll on me last night. Not that I’ll learn from what happened and not do it next Thursday night again.
(Saturday morning 9:16 AM) Awake. Time to go make the run to Jack’s for Mountain Dew. I’m 50/50 on whether I’m going to watch the game at a bar, or at a friend’s condo in Barton Flats. If I go to a bar it probably won’t be the Saucer, although I’ve got to get my 3 in at some point today. I have several hours to figure it out.