Last night, after the BBQ team meeting ended about 7:30 at the Blind Bear, I walked over to the Flying Saucer, wanting to see what the Grizzlies commemorative glass looked like. I didn’t get to! The glasses went on sale at 7 and were sold out by 7:10. Just goes to show how crazy people are in this town about our Memphis Grizzlies!<\/p>\n
Memphis will participate in National Bike to Work Day<\/a> next Friday, May 17. \u00a0It’s a day to celebrate the bike as a viable means of transportation. Sounds like fun, although for me that day will be National Walk to Tom Lee Park and Eat BBQ Day.<\/p>\n Mayor Wharton is questioning the effectiveness of the nonprofit Riverfront Development Corporation that manages our city’s riverfront. ABC 24 article<\/a> WMC-TV article<\/a> Wharton wonders if the riverfront could be managed as effectively by the city, with employees who make less than those working at the RDC. I’ve generally been a supporter of what the RDC does over the years, and I’m not real concerned with their salaries. What I want to know is, that $16 million cost overrun building Beale Street Landing – which still<\/strong><\/em> isn’t done – where exactly did that money go? I do not support giving them any more until we get a complete explanation, with open books.<\/p>\n Puppies were found in a laundry basket on Harbor Town last night. Take a look<\/a> if you’re interested in adopting.<\/p>\n South of Beale will have bacon-infused Maker’s Mark by the time you read this. My favorite bourbon.<\/p>\n There’s still no word on Memphis getting a Trader Joe’s, but a new distribution point <\/a>gives us some hope. There’s one opening in Irving, TX, less than 500 miles away, an easy day’s truck drive.<\/p>\n That will do it. Home from Max’s Sports Bar\/Saucer with to-go food from Huey’s. 8 more cubicle hours and vacation will begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, after the BBQ team meeting ended about 7:30 at the Blind Bear, I walked over to the Flying Saucer, wanting to see what the Grizzlies commemorative glass looked like. I didn’t get to! The glasses went on sale at 7 and were sold out by 7:10. Just goes to show how crazy people … Continue reading “Drunkass Thur update: We love our Grizzlies, Bike to Work Day, RDC in question, pupplies, bacon-infused bourbon, Trader Joe’s”<\/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\/13855"}],"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=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}