Sorry for taking the day off yesterday. It’s been an unusual weekend.
Let’s start off this post with some yummy news: If you’re a fan of the cheeseburger soup and the chorizo meatloaf at Rizzo’s by Michael Patrick, you can now get it anytime you want. Cordelia’s Market has started carrying Rizzo’s in the grab & go.
This was the first Saturday in December in 17 years when Stumbling Santa didn’t happen. The Flying Saucer has a message about that:
For the last 16 years Flying Saucer has sponsored Stumbling Santa, a holiday celebration that helps collects toys and donations to support Porter-Leath and their goal of providing a meaningful gift to low-income children within our community.
Unfortunately due to Covid restrictions and social responsibility we are not able to have our event this year in it’s normal fashion . But even though we miss out on our night of fun, we need to keep in mind that the kids still need our help. This event is generally responsible for over half of the toys raised every year.
So We are still collecting toys and donations at our Downtown location. If you don’t feel comfortable getting out, please look into our virtual option that are available.
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/202stusan/
From MLK50: A Horn Lake woman warned the Shelby County Health Department about the superspreader potential of Curtis Givens’s party days before it happened.
The NBA has released the first half of the Grizzlies’ schedule.
Congratulations to Alcenia’s owner B.J. Tamayo, who bought the restaurant’s building after renting for 23 years.
Lana from Kooky Canuck posted this recently:
Thank you to all of our amazing loyal customers! Anytime that you dine in or order to go with us during December you will receive one of our holiday red envelopes to win prizes when you come back in January!
Sad to hear of the passing of Memphis in May poster artist George Hunt. I got to know George in the early days of South Main Trolley Night, and he always had a welcoming smile and a kind word. He was 87.
Also passed away recently was David L. Lander, who played Squiggy on the ’70s-’80s sitcom Laverne & Shirley. You can catch Squiggy and the gang on local station 30.2 this afternoon at 2:00 and 2:30.
Here’s James Aycock’s COVID weekly wrap-up thread. Things are getting bad out there.
I’m not going to make my friends in the restaurant industry happy with this opinion, but I think there ought to be a county-wide curfew 8 PM December 31-6 AM January 1. Having restaurants close at 10, if that’s still the regulation at the end of the month, will just cause everyone to go to house parties to ring in the New Year. A curfew would eliminate at least some of those parties. Even in the best of times, that’s a night when people make stupid decisions. (Remember the girl who got her head run over by her baby daddy in a parking garage on New Year’s 2019?) NYE parties need to be nipped in the bud.
Here’s something for my techie friends to have fun with today: Web-based insult generator with JSON output.
There’s a South Main Christmas Pop-Up hosted by Island Community Church today at 5 at 409 S. Main. People who live in the neighborhood are invited to come out and celebrate the holiday.
The New Yorker recently published an article about Hitler’s final days in the bunker. I wonder what about the current times caused the writer to think of that moment in history?
Back tomorrow with more news. Again, apologies for not posting yesterday.