It’s a little after 8:30 AM, and I’m looking at the radar… looks like the rain will be outta here by 10, so I’m assuming the hot wing fest will go on as planned.
Should be a great day. I’m going to head down to South Main in about an hour and poke around the Memphis Farmers Market for a little while, then head over to a friend’s condo for cocktails. Around 11:30-noonish we’ll hit the festival.
My BBQ team the Ques Brothers is competing and using this as a warm-up for BBQ Fest. We got lucky enough to get booths next to two friend teams, the South Main team (which I believe is going by “Pluck U”) and the Calhoun’s team, so it should be one big party. Since this is a Ques Brothers event, I’ll bring my camera and create a photo album. I have the spare camera batteries on the charger now.
Other notes… the famous manhole cover tour of Downtown will happen again this Tuesday at lunchtime. It’s part of the Downtown Alive series. Historian Jimmy Ogle will lead a tour of manhole covers along Union Avenue and talk about their part in the history of Memphis. Tour is free; meet at Union and Wagner at 11:45 AM.
I’m seriously thinking about skipping trivia or showing up late on Tuesday, so I can check out Bardog Tavern’s air guitar contest. It starts at 6:30 PM.
I did one of the “top 5” things on Facebook last night: Pick your (5) all-time favorite bars. The “all-time” thing made me think for a while… forced me to compare old bars (Hoop’s Bar, McGuinness) to bars at which I was once a big-time regular but am not so much anymore (Tap Room, Downtown Blue Monkey) to new favorites (Silly Goose, Bardog). I also had to spend some time deciding whether Sleep Out Louie’s or the Flying Saucer should be in the #1 spot. Maybe when I have more time I’ll do a post about this.
Time to put on my Ques Brothers polo shirt and head south.