The Sinners for Saints Ball which is happening Saturday, October 29 at Stop 345 has posted a massive update as to what you can expect:
We hope you’ve got your costume picked out because we’ve got $1000s worth of prizes to give away. Not only do we have a costume contest featuring a panel of judges including some of your favorite on air personalities, DJ Lil’ Egg Roll will be hosting a late night costume karaoke contest in The Indoor Trailer Park and Voodoo Lounge. You will not find bigger prizes in town. We have gift packages from The Madison Hotel & Eighty3, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Rizzo’s Diner, Tamp & Tap (both locations), The Blind Bear, Silly Goose, Max’s Sports Bar, SOB, Lafayette’s, Bangkok Alley, Green Beetle, Alchemy, Café Keough, Elite Men’s Health, La Hacienda, Crossfit Hit & Run, Oak Hall, The Baer’s Den, Rabata, Jerry Lee Lewis’s, Boneheads, Hi-Tone, Tony’s Trophy Room, Nail Bar, SVR Nails, Fontaine Botanic Skin Care, and MORE. Not only that, to honor this year’s fallen rock gods, I will personally give out $200 CASH for the best David Bowie or Prince costume. More details to come, but don’t wait to buy tickets they’re selling fast and last year SOLD OUT. See you in a couple weeks…
Not sure “I” is in the quote above, but to make it clear, it isn’t me. Although I consider the best Halloween party Downtown and I will be going, I am not one of the organizers.
Guess I need to buy my ticket soon… as they said, this party did sell out prior to start time.
Big River Crossing, the pedestrian path across the Harahan Bridge to Arkansas, opens Saturday, October 22. Opening will be at 1 PM, with food and live entertainment from 4 to 7, and fireworks at 7. With that being the first day of RiverArtsFest, the south side of Downtown is going to be hopping. Venues like Loflin Yard, The Dirty Crow Inn, and (if open by then) the Ghost River taproom might want to plan some fun stuff to capitalize on the large number of people who will come to the area.
It makes me a bit sad that we’re far enough into the fall that fireworks can be shot at 7 PM. A month and a day from now, we will be back on Standard Time and it will be getting dark at 5.
The Commercial Appeal’s 9:01 column has a recap of “How to Leave Your Car at Home” last night at High Cotton.
If you like to bring your dog out with you, Felicia Suzanne’s tweeted yesterday that their patio is pet-friendly.
It’s supposed to hit 90 today or tomorrow. When I taught Concepts of Numbers in the 1990s, I used weather to teach probability. I remember saying that there was an 0.7% (at the time) of a high reaching 90 in Memphis in October. What do you think the probability is in 2016? 50%? Seems like it’s hard to have an October without one day in the 90s anymore. But global warming isn’t a real thing, it’s just a myth of the “liberal media,” people claim.
Relevant story for Tennesseans: After defeating Al Gore Sr. for his Senate seat in 1970, Sen. Bill Brock faced reelection in 1976. However, it was revealed that he used tax loopholes to end up paying only about 5% in taxes in 1975. It may have been a savvy business move, but workers who made so much less than Brock were angered that he paid less taxes than they did, and they voted him out of office, electing Democrat Jim Sasser. Quite similar to the tax revelation about the Trumpster over the weekend.
Well, I wasn’t “mayor” of Rizzo’s for long. Katie (not Mac) stole it from me on Swarm last night. Congratulations to her! I am proud I got to hold that mayorship, even if only for a few days.
Heading out to run errands… I will be out at the Silly Goose for happy hour after work.