This morning, I attended a Public Relations Society of America workshop about Twitter. Speaker was Sandra Fathi, president of Affect, an agency in New York City, and also president of the NYC PRSA chapter. Her talk was excellent and I got a lot of good ideas about connecting with journalists that I will take back to work this afternoon.
She discussed hashtags, and people mentioned how well the #memflood hashtag has been used on Twitter. So she pulled it up in HootSuite. Among the tweets that appeared was this one:
And the #memflood is gone RT @Paulryburn ousted @clay1278 as mayor of Flying Saucer Draught Emporium on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/7TIbp6
So there was one of my drunk tweets/Foursquare checkins, right there for the professional community of Memphis to see.
And who was sitting right next to me, looking at it as well? My boss. Yep. Fantastic.
Back Downtown for lunch, eating one of my favorite comfort foods, chili with jalapenos, onions and cheese from Court House Deli. Was tempted to eat outside because there was a hot MILF in a tube top dress out there, but I decided to bring it home and do a blog post. The owner of the place said, “Hey Paul. Here. Try these,” as I was walking out and handed me three of their new blackened voodoo wings. I thought about telling him I already tried a full order last month when I was on vacation. But then I thought, the Nuh-Uh Girl wouldn’t turn down free food, why should I?
In other news: Bar None is planning an ’80s party Saturday night. I’m short on time so I’ll just paste the description from Facebook. Sorry about the caps (theirs, not mine):
WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1985!! BRING ON THE AQUA NET, ACID WASHED JEANS AND NEON LEG WARMERS. SO FOR ALL YOU GIRLS WHO WANNA HAVE FUN AND GUYS WHO LIKE IT HOT JOIN US AT BAR NONE FOR A TOTALLY RAD 80’S BASH. $100.00 GIFT CARDS FOR BEST GUY AND GIRL 80’S OUTFIT. WE WILL BE ROCKING OUT TO AWESOME 80’S MIXED TAPES. JELLO SHOTS AND DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT.
A friend of mine texted me from Tuesday night steak night at the Downtown Blue Monkey last night. He said the steaks are fantastic and they use only meat from Charlie’s Meat Market. See, I can say good things about the Monkey, just not about their karaoke night. I’ll have to check out their steak night sometime soon.
Harp is the Fire Sale today. Since it tastes exactly like a beer I love, PBR, I’ll be there at the Saucer at 5:30 to enjoy a few. I’m about 50/50 on whether I’ll do poker in Bardog’s Underdog Room at 7:30 tonight. I’d said I was only going to go if a potential opponent decides to stop being a no-fun crybaby and go out, but you know what? $2 Coronas mean there’s a very good chance I’ll show up regardless.
Time for a sweaty drive back to Horn Lake in a hot car. I need to go to more of those PRSA workshops. It really was informative and worth whatever my company paid for me to go.