DANG IT DANG IT DANG IT!!! I just found out that Tennessee plays #1 Florida at 2:30 Central time Saturday on CBS.
You may wonder why I’m complaining about that. After all, Tennessee is one of my most hated schools, and they will surely get their butts handed to them by the Gators. Lots of people are predicting a Florida score in the 60s and a Vol score in the single digits. Definitely a game I would enjoy watching.
I won’t get to watch it, though… because Saturday is Cooper-Young Fest. Like Christmas, Cooper-Young Fest comes but once a year, and I want to be outside to soak up every minute of it. I want to catch up with people I haven’t seen in 10 years, eat festival food, and hear bands I rarely get to hear. Cooper-Young supersedes the Tennessee ass-whoopin’ that will take place at the same time. Oh well. I can still keep up with the game on my ESPN iPhone app. And I can also use my iPhone to text UT fans Frank and the Nuh-Uh Girl and remind them how bad their team is.
Hmmm #23 Georgia at Arkansas at 6:45… that could be a very interesting game. Doesn’t appear to be on any regular cable TV station though. I’ll still be in Midtown at that point as the festival winds down – are there any bars in Midtown that have the NCAA package? If not maybe I’ll hop on my bike and high-tail it back Downtown to Calhoun’s to watch the second half with fellow Arkansas fan Max.
Enough football talk – let’s get on with the news. MIFA’s Feed the Soul party returns to the Warehouse on G.E. Patterson on Thursday, October 1. It’s a night of community, music, and fun in one of the most unique venues in the city. There will be food by Gus’s Chicken and Hog Wild BBQ, and Raiford will be the DJ. Tickets are $40 each; get them here.
There’s going to be a Big Scoop Ice Cream Festival benefiting the Ronald McDonald House at Autozone Park Saturday, September 26. This should be a fun family event. Tickets are $7 in advance (click the link to purchase) or $10 at the gate, and get you all the ice cream you can eat, photo opps with Ronald McDonald and Rockey Redbird, access to the Autozone Park playground, live music, face painting, and a silent auction. All you can eat ice cream? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.
The Redbirds have home games against the Sacramento River Cats tomorrow and Wednesday nights. These are the opening games of the Pacific Coast League championship series. If the Redbirds win the best-of-5 series, they will play the winner of the other AAA league on September 22 for the overall AAA championship. Go Redbirds!
Condoleeza Rice will speak at a special event tomorrow night, September 15, at an event hosted by the Greater Memphis Chamber. The event will be at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. Dr. Rice was National Security Advisor under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, and Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009. She’s currently a professor at Stanford. Call 901-543-3550 for tickets. Whether or not you agree with her politics, it’s an honor to have a former Secretary of State here.
Oh yeah I was supposed to stop by and write down or take a pic of the specials Kooky Canuck is running during Monday Night Football starting tonight… um I kind of forgot. I know there’s a beer special, a wing special, and a third special I can’t remember. Sorry. I’ll try to get a look at the specials tonight and post them for next week.
Coming soon… info on a series of monthly Thursday night fall parties in the Main/Peabody Place block.
Plans for tonight: Pint Nite at the Saucer, of course! Almost all their draft beers are $2.75. I plan on being there shortly after 5 PM.