I didn’t attend the public forum on the possible re-opening of the Main Street Mall to vehicles last night, but friends of mine did. They told me the response from citizens and business owners was very heavily AGAINST re-opening the street to traffic. If the CCC moves forward with this idea, they’re very much going to be working against public sentiment. Hopefully their plan is dead and buried as of last night.
Dr. Booze has a new post about a site called Local Wine Events. You select your city and the search engine tells you what upcoming wine, beer, and spirits events are in your area. If you own a restaurant or bar, or if you are throwing an event, you can log in and add your own listings. Currently only one event comes back as a search result but several more should… I know there are restaurants throwing wine dinners in the next couple of months, and someone needs to put Art on Tap on there.
In the news: Rachael Ray is coming to town today to visit a gorilla from the Memphis Zoo who is a big fan of hers. The gorilla has a TV in his cage and loves to watch when she’s on, especially when she’s cooking. Her visit will be filmed and will air in September.
Also in the news… MPD’s eye in the sky spotted a vehicle break-in at Main and Peabody Place at 2:30 AM yesterday. They caught the suspects about a block away. Glad to see that program is working… the bad guys don’t have free run of the neighborhood anymore. They never know who’s watching. Also, the bum patrol told me that one of the area’s top parking-meter scammers has been cited for panhandling for the third time in two weeks. That means he has three court dates. If he misses one of them a warrant will be issued and he’ll be hauled off to jail. The bum patrol has been catching him in the act so often, he’s going to have to spend some of his panhandling money on a PDA to keep up with his court appearances.
There’s a Facebook group called “Trader Joe’s – Please come to Memphis!” It was my pleasure to join that one. I lived in San Diego for 6 months and shopped at Trader Joe’s… it’s a health food store, but with better products and more reasonable prices than Wild Oats. If we got a Trader Joe’s, my health guru AL might be more successful altering my eating habits.
Congrats to the Rapscallions, who took first place in trivia last night, bringing the gift certificate total for our next party to $360. That sounds like a lot but we have close to 30 people who have participated in the past month or so. Third-round bonus question that gave us the win: Name the three most populous islands – islands, not island nations – in the world. The answers were Java (where Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is located), Great Britain, and Honshu (Japan’s largest island).
My Internet connection is down. Gotta call Comcast at lunchtime and find out what’s wrong. Thanks to my neighbor “linksys” for supplying the bandwidth that made this post possible.