The only vice-presidential candidate debate of the 2016 election season happens tonight. Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence will square off tonight at 8:00. The debate will be carried on most major networks and streamed on the New York Times website. Elaine Quijano of CBS News will moderate. This most likely won’t be the trainwreck that the first Clinton-Trump event became, but you never know…
If you weren’t at last night’s Grizzlies preseason game, you need to read this recap. In the third quarter, out of the blue, head coach David Fizdale handed Mike Conley the clipboard and told him to start coaching! Fizdale, recognizing that Conley has one of the highest basketball IQs in the league, wants the Grizzlies’ starting PG to be vocal with his teammates this season. In other news, rookie Wade Baldwin looked like a star last night, despite a few too many turnovers. If he has learned one thing in training camp, it’s “When you can get the ball to Z-bo, get the ball to Z-bo.” Not a bad thing to learn.
I posted this once before, but apparently this is a big deal, and some of my friends are really behind this event: Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils play The Dirty Crow Inn tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 5, from 8 to 11 PM. I’m just going to paste the description below, borrowed from Facebook:
Jennifer Westwood cut her teeth on Detroit Gospel before hitting the gritty Detroit bars that set her career in motion. She has been a Detroit Music Award winner and nominee in several categories, and has contributed music to multiple Emmy Award winning commercials and documentaries, as well as film.
She first found confidence to consider music as a career by the encouragement of a church acquaintance, a professor of music who had previously served as ensemble choir director for the late Bishop C.L. Franklin, father of Aretha. Performing in church lead to her first work in the outside world, singing backup locally for Motown artist Carl Carlton (Bad Mama Jama). Studio work for various local artists followed, first in R & B and soul genres, followed by roots and blues. Those experiences gave her insight on the direction she wanted to embark on for her own music before leaping out on her own. It also opened doors for commercial work due to her vocal flexibility and enthusiasm.
The same enthusiasm has driven each performance — whether it has been 7 ppl, on up to 70,000. Sharing the bill with rock icon Patti Smith at the world’s largest Masonic Temple have marked a highlight of her performance career.
Jennifer has fully embraced the character and spirit of Detroit; and considers her greatest accomplishment to be creating a career in music during some of the most troubling economic times for her hometown.There are no musical limitations with Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils. The skill set and accomplishments that each member has earned helps them create a format where no style is out of bounds. Somehow, it all sounds familiar, but unique all the same. Truly a melting pot of musical ability and knowledge, the band makes a statement with each note and the sky is the limit.
Want to help be part of the solution to make Memphis Animal Services better? Plan on attending this meeting organized by TargetZero next Monday at the Central Library. It’s open to everyone interested in reducing shelter intake and increasing the number of animals saved in Memphis.
Spam email subjects get ever funnier and more creative… a pharmaceutical company informed me that I can “knock on her wet cave door ten times a night” with their bogus sexual enhancement supplement. I would like to meet the morons who fall for this marketing.
Site a co-worker showed me today: DownDetector, which lets you monitor network traffic over time for many big Internet providers and public businesses. They monitor traffic from companies like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner, Vonage, Google, Cox… and also Pokemon Go. Too funny.
Keep an eye on the track for Hurricane Matthew if you have friends on the East Coast. Looks like Wilmington and Greenville, North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia could take direct hits if the storm remains on its current track.
It’s National Taco Day, so I will say it one more time… if you have not been to Maciel’s Tortas and Tacos yet, you are missing out! Authentic Mexican food at a very good price point, and the owner and staff just couldn’t be nicer. If the unassuming storefront on Main between Monroe and Union has kept you from checking this place out, take my word for it – Maciel’s is the real deal!
I wish the tandoori truck that comes to Memphis Farmers Market would pull up in my company’s lot in Horn Lake right about now… for some reason I have a hankering for lamb kabobs over rice. Alas, but it is not to be… I am probably looking at a crappy microwave dinner from Kroger for my lunchtime nutrition. The kabobs will have to wait until Saturday. That’s all for now. I will be out at happy hour at (most likely) Blind Bear after work.