Memphis in May is having its annual “Spend Like Scrooge, Give Like Santa” holiday sale next Wednesday-Friday, December 12-14, from 11 AM to 5 PM. You’ll be able to buy Music Fest, BBQ Fest, and other Memphis in May merchandise from previous years. T-shirts will start at $1, polos at $5. Hats, cookbooks, sweatshirts, and limited edition posters will be among other items for sale. The sale will happen at 45 S. Main, cash and credit cards accepted but no checks, all sales final with no exchanges.
Last night I went to Bardog to have a few beers with my buddy Duck Finkley, who is back in town and off the boat as of yesterday. There was an interesting announcement on one of the boards: On Sunday, December 9 from 5 PM to 3 AM, there will be guest chefs from McEwen’s performing live, “with heavy-handed guest bartending,” at Bardog.
The Flying Saucer will have its annual Beerknurd party on Sunday, December 16 at 7 PM. There will be a free Beerknurd Buffet, along with the tapping of a keg of rare beer. You must be a Beerknurd to attend. How do you become a Beerknurd? Ask a server or bartender about joining the Saucer’s UFO Club. It’s $18 and you get a T-shirt, a UFO Club card to use in their beer computer, a free birthday beer every year, the chance to take quizzes online and earn free bar bucks, and more benefits including the yearly party. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.
A device similar to the medical tricorder used on Star Trek will be commercially available in late 2013. The Gizmodo article states, “You simply place it on the left temple and, in less than ten seconds, it will read your pulse transit time, heart rate, electrical heart activity, temperature, heart rate variability and blood oxygenation. Then it sends this information to an app on your iPhone or Android phone, which displays it for you. You can even store your vitals for tracking, which could prove fundamental to many health situations at home.” As someone who has an elderly parent who has had heart problems, this is REALLY cool. The tricorder will only cost about $150.
I’ve been asked to mention that Amy LaVere, John Paul Keith and Shawn Zorn played Mollie Fontaine’s Wednesday night and will be there for several more Wednesdays. Good place to chill out and hear some live music.
FedEx’s Fred Smith says that the idea that raising taxes on the rich will kill jobs is mythology. Warren Buffett said something similar a couple of weeks ago.
Big day at the FedExForum tomorrow. Tigers play at 12, Grizzlies at 7.
Tonight the Grizzlies have an away game at New Orleans. Not sure where I’ll watch it. “Grizzville” at Max’s Sports Bar is a possibility.