South Point Grocery has expanded its hours. Effective yesterday, the grocery is open 8 AM to 9 PM, seven days a week, and the deli is open 11 AM to 7 PM, seven days a week.
I had an idea yesterday that I would pay a monthly subscription for: The How Busy Is It Cam. There are times when I’m considering a change of venue to a place like Blind Bear or Silly Goose or Bardog, but I wish I knew what it looked like inside:
- If half the bar seats were open, I’d go right over.
- If only one bar seat was open, but it was next to a friend of mine or an attractive female, I’d go right over.
- If all the bar seats were taken, and unknown random customers were standing behind the occupied seats waiting to order drinks, I’d stay put where I was.
If I could look in on my phone and determine how crowded, that’d aid my decision. It’d also help bars keep consistently full. Someone needs to build this.
The National Civil Rights Museum launched a new exhibit this past weekend: Solidarity Now, a look at the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. It’ll be on display through the end of July. Leaders of the modern Poor People’s Campaign are in town today and will head to Church Park on Beale Street, where they will discuss the needs of the poor.
From Fox 13: Planned improvements in public transit in Memphis will make 39% more jobs reachable in one hour or less. Percentages will go up even more for minority and low-income residents.
Paulette’s has some good entrees for its Monday night three-course dinner for $23.95 tonight: stuffed chicken and bang bang redfish. View full menu
Today’s Lucky Penny Day. In Memphis you can celebrate by telling a local university’s men’s head basketball coach you appreciate him.
In the news: Woman fires shots at club after being denied entry. It was a club on American Way, but thinking, “Was it Downtown?”, I clicked into the article to see the location. Prior to 2020 that thought never would have crossed my mind.
Yesterday almost turned out to be a day I’ve been dreading for five and a half years.
I headed down to Max’s Sports Bar at 11:30 for their final crawfish and shrimp boil of the season. The bartender announced the first batch would be ready at about 12:15. I went ahead and purchased a ticket for a pound of hot boiled shrimp. They’re less work to eat than the crawfish and a better value per pound.
The cook came in and announced, “Ready!” and I jumped out of my seat and shoved my phone in my pocket, and made a beeline to the back patio, getting the jump on everyone else inside who’d purchased crawfish and shrimp tickets. I hate waiting in line!
I reached in my pocket and pulled out my ticket for shrimp. I felt my phone in the pocket as well, and in the very bottom…
… a hole.
…. and not a troll.
After more than five years, it had happened. I had lost Perjorie T. Roll. My only hope was that she fell out on my way to the patio to get shrimp, and she was somewhere inside. But I felt it was much more likely she had fallen out somewhere on the sidewalk on Main, in which case she’d likely have been picked up before I could get back there to look.
Dejected, I walked with my box of shrimp back to my bar seat. I scanned the floor with my eyes as I walked back inside, but Perjorie was not on the floor.
I returned to my seat and put the shrimp box on the bar next to my beer…
…. and Perjorie. I had torn a hole in my pocket when I got up and shoved my phone in it. A kind soul had seen her on the floor, knew she was my troll, and returned her to me.
Disaster averted.
The shrimp were outstanding as were the corn, taters, and sausage. They had a side of pineapple cooked in the boil as well, but I turned it down for the same reason I never order pineapple on pizza. If you like what you see, too bad – you’ll have to wait for February 23 for another crawfish boil at Max’s.
That’s it for now. Got a friend’s birthday to celebrate today so I’m getting out early. Back tomorrow with more news.