Wet Willie’s is having Koozies for Boobies in October. A percentage of sales from pink drinks benefits The Cure all month long. On October 6 and 7, a percentage of ALL sales will go to The Cure. Last year they raised over $41,000. Come get hammered to fight breast cancer!
Blue October plays the New Daisy tonight as part of their I Want It Tour. This is an all-ages concert with doors opening at 7 and show at 8. Tickets $25-35. I wonder what they do the other 11 months of the year?
Why do people have to suck?
Argh! Heartless vandals have damaged the volleyball poles at Tom Lee Park so badly they can’t be used. Won’t be a quick fix, either. pic.twitter.com/iuCuL5G6Ia
— MemphisRiverfront (@MemRiverfront) October 3, 2017
There’s going to be free wrestling coming to Downtown Memphis in a “Downtown Meltdown” at Handy Park, Beale at B.B. King Blvd., Thursday, October 19 starting at 7 PM. In the main event, Jerry “The King” Lawler will battle Buff Bagwell. Among Bagwell’s accolades is being voted Most Embarrassing Wrestler of 2001 by the readers of Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Oden & Associates will relocate their corporate HQ to South City early next year, in a building at 158 Vance that previously housed Color Craft Printing. The building is two blocks south of FedExForum.
More bad news for the Tennessee Vols: Since the 2013 class was signed, 32 players have transferred under head coach Butch Jones. OL Venzell Boulware became the latest, announcing his intent to transfer Monday.
The vibe around the football complex right now is not good. I’m worried for my future. Anyone want to adopt a hard working trash can? pic.twitter.com/Vb1OzSRleG
— Trash Can (@TrashCanTeam121) October 3, 2017
The Commercial Appeal’s “Outside the Loop” blog might want to include this in their next post. Info for suburbanites who drink:
Applebee’s has $1 margaritas the entire month of October & 50 cent margaritas on Wednesday’s! 🍎🐝🐝 RT to save a life. pic.twitter.com/mcC2QRTKbm
— No Ma’am (@steenfox) October 2, 2017
All right. Time to get to work. This morning I will check with my teammates and find out how the cooks’ meeting for Best Memphis Burger Fest went. I am getting so excited for this Saturday. Our burger game has never been tighter. Our Veggie Burger was ready to go by the end of our first cooking practice. In late September we turned down an invitation to piddle around in a parking lot with a few other teams, in favor of getting a third practice in, and plans for Classic Cheeseburger and Anything Goes came together nicely. Note that turn-in times have been adjusted to accommodate the addition of the steak competition. If you want to watch us cook a particular burger, I recommend showing up about 45 minutes before turn-in time. So, for example, turn-in for Classic Cheeseburger is 1:25-1:35, so we’ll probably start on that one around 12:40. I can’t promise we’ll have extras of our competition burgers to hand out, but we will be cooking regular burgers (maybe dressed up a bit because after all we are a BBQ team) for the public to sample. Be sure to bring a donation for Memphis Paws!
Okay this is weird… part of the steak cookoff is a hot dog cooking contest… WTF? I mean, nothing against hot dogs but it seems weird that they’d be part of a steak competition. Wonder if it’s too late for Weekend at Porky’s to throw their hat in the ring… they could bring the George Foreman for the steak and Rahul & Tony’s Special Sauce for the hot dogs.
Possibly back at lunchtime with another post… got a couple more news items in the queue already.