This is kind of late notice, but tonight is the Father’s Day “buy the beer, keep the glass” night at the Flying Saucer. This year’s honored father: Darth Vader. I haven’t seen the glass but have been told it’s pretty cool. Attn UFO Club members: The “important Beer Goddess video message” sent today contained another one of those quizzes where if you get 7 out of 10, you get a $5 gift certificate, redeemable tomorrow only. So I’ll get to drink some free beer while I listen to the Dempseys tomorrow night.
Attn Saucer: How many more years is it going to be before we see an official Tube Top Month glass in June? If you don’t believe there’d be interest ask me about the TubeTopalooza party I’m planning on my rooftop… and most of the people excited about it are females.
Mpact Memphis has a couple of interesting events coming up. On Tuesday, June 17, they’ll hold a Which Way Up? Elevating Education in Memphis forum with MCS school board president Tomeka Hart, Teach for America director Bradley Leon, and Promise Academy Charter School principal Blakeley Wallace will be the featured guests. They will share their ideas and they’ll also be interested in hearing yours. It will be held at Hope & Healing (1115 Union) at 6 PM.
Mpact’s monthly dinner club is taking a trip to a Downtown favorite, Pearl’s Oyster House, on Thursday, June 19. Great seafood, great restaurant, great bands on the weekends. For more info on these events and others check out Mpact’s … er, oops, I was about to direct you to their website and got “website coming soon.”
Four-year-old Midtowner Anna Ives, treated at LeBonheur for a brain tumor last year, is going to Washington with her dad Zac to ask Congressional leaders to support measures for children’s health care. Zac is the co-owner of Goner Records and has a blog about the trip that you can read here.
Time Magazine had a good article today about how Barack Obama is taking the campaign fight to all 50 states this year, rather than just the 20 or so “toss-up” states that polls indicate could go either way. By doing this, he may not win the traditionally “red” states in the South and West, but he may create more of a coattail effect allowing Democratic candidates for Senate, Congress, and local races in those states to gather steam. He may also force John McCain to divert resources to defend states that are currently believed safe for the Republicans, taking McCain’s attention away from the toss-ups. Hope the strategy works… RealClearPolitics still shows Obama with a thin 272-266 electoral vote lead if no states were toss-ups. Would like to see Obama get up above the 300 mark in the projections. Not that I think that McCain would be a bad president, but I believe Obama is a once-in-a-generation leader, as TR, FDR, and JFK were. (All the great presidents of the last 100 years are nicknamed with their initials… Barack’s would be BO… hmmm that wouldn’t be too good.)
That’s it for now… not going out after work, want to build websites for a while. If I do go out it’ll probably be 10 or later.