New places on Madison and fun at Bardog

Last night I started out with a walk down Madison to the First Tennessee building to use their ATM. Snapped a couple of pics along the way.

The Brass Door has its sign up and its beer permit application in the window. Those are signs that the Irish pub will open soon.
Meanwhile, across the street at 149 Madison, Thai Bistro will open soon. They already have a location in Germantown.

Then I moved on to Bardog…

Amanda "Panda" Parks holding a case of Corona. I thought it would take a while to train the bartenders to bring me Coronas ($2 all month long) rather than PBR, but Amanda plopped one down in front of me as soon as I sat at the bar.
New Memphian "Tex," who recently moved here from Austin, celebrating his birthday.

My only complaint about Bardog was that it was tube top deficient last night. C’mon people get it together!!!

I then moved on to the Saucer and watched the rest of the basketball game. They left the news on afterward and there was video from Rudy Williams’ music memorial. They had a trumpet made of flowers and his straw hat and I was fighting back tears as I watched it.

I have a PR meeting at the U of M this morning and will eat somewhere nearby, so probably no time for a lunchtime post for today. Plans for tonight: Not set in stone but leaning toward poker in Bardog’s Underdog Room (7:30). I thought I was going to have a new person to beat, but it looks like someone is having trouble putting her big girl panties on and coming out on a weeknight. We will see.

The PR meeting is about Twitter. If I learn anything interesting I’ll recap it later…