Wed update: Best Memphis Burger Fest looking for teams, Aldo’s, Romanian gymnasts, Chisca, Wed evening events

Best Memphis Burger Fest is looking for a few more teams. The burger-cooking competition will be at Minglewood Hall Sunday, September 30, and will benefit Mid-South Spay and Neuter Services. Anyone can enter, whether you’re a full-service restaurant or a guy with a grill who knows how to make a great burger. However, if you plan on entering, you need to do it now, before the spots run out. Go here to learn how to enter – if you click on the headline “Enter the Burger Cooking Competition,” you can download/print a PDF of the cook’s packet.

If you’ve been hanging out at the bar at Aldo’s Pizza Pies, you’ll be pleased to know that they have one of their huge bar TVs hooked up now. Last night they had the Olympics on, and there were ROMANIAN GYMNASTS!!!!! I watched Catalina Ponor win a silver medal for looking really hot and jumping around and flipping. After she retires from gymnastics, Catalina plans to move to America and marry me.

The City Council voted 9-2 yesterday on the third reading to approve $2 million in funding to renovate the vacant Chisca Hotel at Main and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. Very happy to see that this historic building is en route to being saved.

Wednesday night stuff going on: Yazoo glass night at the Flying Saucer, 7:00 (see a pic); bingo with Diamond Dave at the Brass Door, 7:30; poker with Poker Jon in Bardog’s Underdog Room, 7:30; trivia with Charles at the Blind Bear, 8:00; discounted wine and pizza night at Pa Pa Pia’s; wine Wednesday at Itta Bena and Silly Goose as well. I’ve been having fun with the trivia team so I’m leaning toward doing that tonight, although I really do need to go visit Diamond Dave one of these Wednesdays.

Plans for today: Go to Walgreens and buy some Woolite to hand-wash my Elvis costume. I didn’t wash it after the pub crawl last year, figuring it was surely my last year doing it – but I threw it in the closet, just in case. After that I’ll take a look at all the Downtown restaurants that post their specials to Facebook and Twitter, and figure out where to eat lunch. Fuel Food Truck just landed in Court Square… maybe I’ll go get some tacos and watch a few minutes of the bum-and-pigeon show in the park. My friends want me to go “value drinking” with them at Downtown Hooters this afternoon, but I’m not a particularly big fan of that idea. One thing’s for sure, I’ll make it to the Saucer well before my usual check-in time of 6 PM.

Check back… very possible there will be one or more posts to come today.