A few links for your Thursday afternoon reading pleasure:
Here’s a link to a CA article about a new 298-room luxury hotel planned to be built across Linden from the FedExForum, at the corner of Fourth. Always good to see more luxury rooms come to Downtown Memphis… that will help attract conventions.
Here’s a link to Jerry Lawler’s 2009 mayoral campaign website. I was a supporter of The King in his 1999 run… not sure who I’ll vote for this time… probably either Wharton or interim mayor Lowery. I’m a huge fan of Lawler but this city just has too many problems to let a pro wrestler run it. I’d damn sure pick him over Herenton though.
Here’s a link that will explain why Twitter was down for a couple of days last week. It wasn’t an attack on Twitter itself, but rather an attack by a pro-Russian group who was trying to silence criticism of Russia’s was with Georgia on social networking sites.
More to come today or tomorrow… one of my favorite chefs has taken over management of what has up until now been one of my least favorite Downtown restaurants… hopefully he’ll turn it around… anyway, it’s worthy of a post of its own. That post will be up today or tomorrow, I hope.