{"id":10536,"date":"2011-08-24T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2011-08-24T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:54:50","slug":"wed-update-gibson-raided-tiger-basketball-big-onolunch-bardog-pokernachos-monkey-to-expand-lot-mephit-furmeet-westys-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/wed-update-gibson-raided-tiger-basketball-big-onolunch-bardog-pokernachos-monkey-to-expand-lot-mephit-furmeet-westys-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed update: Gibson raided, Tiger basketball, Big Ono\/lunch, Bardog poker\/nachos, Monkey to expand lot, Mephit Furmeet, Westy’s deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gibson Guitar plant was raided by federal agents this morning. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency conducted the raid. This may be related to a raid on the Gibson plant in Nashville a few years ago, when the guitar maker was accused of illegal cutting and shipping wood from Madagascar for use in its guitars. More details on News Channel 3’s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Memphis Tigers have released their 2011 men’s basketball schedule<\/a>. It’s loaded with top non-conference opponents, designed to get us a higher seed than the Number 12 we had this year. Great job, Coach P! Great move hiring current Laker player Luke Walton as an assistant too.<\/p>\n

If you work in the Downtown core, you’ll have a new place to grab lunch starting tomorrow. Big Ono Bakery, at the corner of Front and Gayoso across from Barton Flats, will offer to-go lunches from Miss Cordelia’s. There will be sandwiches, salads and wraps and nothing will be over $7.<\/p>\n

If you play poker in the Underdog Room of Bardog Tavern on Wednesdays, you have the night off. Poker Jon posted to Facebook that there will be no game this week.<\/p>\n

There’s still a reason to go by Bardog though… one of their specials today is Ultimate Memphis BBQ Nachos. I got these last night, and there was a ton of Memphis pulled pork over tortilla chips with tomatoes and fresh jalapenos. What really made the nachos special, though, was the homemade cheese sauce. A real value at $7.95. Like most specials, these will probably only be on the menu for a day or two, so if you’re a nacho fan get down there.<\/p>\n

The Downtown Blue Monkey is going to fill in the hole next door (the location of the old Blue Monkey that burned in 2005) to expand parking, according to a regular who spends as much time there as I do at the Saucer. That reminds me… the annual Mephit Furmeet, the meetup of “furries” who dress in full head-to-toe animal costume, happens over Labor Day weekend. If I run into any of the furries I’ll definitely recommend they check out the Monkey’s karaoke night on Saturday. Furryoke! For furries who need help finding the Monkey, here’s a map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MemphisSmartDeals.com has a Downtown deal today: $10 for $20 worth of food at Westy’s.<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s all for now. No set plans for tonight but I’ll be out somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gibson Guitar plant was raided by federal agents this morning. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency conducted the raid. This may be related to a raid on the Gibson plant in Nashville a few years ago, when the guitar maker was accused of illegal cutting and shipping wood from Madagascar for use in its … Continue reading “Wed update: Gibson raided, Tiger basketball, Big Ono\/lunch, Bardog poker\/nachos, Monkey to expand lot, Mephit Furmeet, Westy’s deal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10537,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions\/10537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}