{"id":16006,"date":"2015-03-06T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=16006"},"modified":"2015-03-06T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:17:56","slug":"gator-tail-double-j-plus-friday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/gator-tail-double-j-plus-friday-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gator tail @ Double J, plus Friday news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a snow day, so I hit all the spots in the Downtown core then wandered south to Max’s Sports Bar to see my South Main friends. As I began the walk back I decided I was hungry, so I popped in Double J for dinner. I had the gator tail, served on a bed of rice pilaf with Texas toast. It was excellent and as you can see in the photo above, the portion of gator you get is far from skimpy.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should get a gator and enter it in Anything But this year. I will mention it to the BBQ team at the meeting this weekend.<\/p>\n

I usually eat only one meal a day, but yesterday was the rare day when I had two. Around lunchtime I wandered over to the Flying Saucer, figuring I’d have a hot chick to look at behind the bar. Instead I got Nate. Nevertheless, I ordered the lunch beer cheese soup\/side salad combo. In the 12 years I have been going to the Saucer, it was the first time I have ever had the beer cheese soup. Not bad at all.<\/p>\n

The Memphis Comedy Festival is this weekend and one of the festival venues is Downtown. Kudzu’s hosts “the 4:20 show” this afternoon but apparently they will be running late because the start time is listed as 4:30. The show features\u00a0Kate Lucas, Josh McLane, Mo Arora, Ashley Huck, Scott Eason, Jason Earl Folks, and Andy Fleming and admission is free.<\/p>\n

There is a musical parody of Fifty Shades of Gray tonight at the Orpheum at 8. Tickets are $29-55.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the mood to watch a basketball team that is a mere shell of its former self, you’re in for a treat tonight because the L.A. Lakers are in town. The play the Grizzlies at 7 at FedExForum.<\/p>\n

Beginning this weekend the Arcade will stay open late<\/a> Thursdays through Saturdays. Closing time will be 11 PM. Speaking of which, there’s a Groupon for the Arcade<\/a> running right now. $12 for $20 worth of food, or $24 for $40 worth of food.<\/p>\n

The Tigers got an important win over UConn last night.<\/a> The top five teams in the AAC get first-round byes in the tournament, and the Tigers now hold a tiebreaker over UConn as a result of sweeping them in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Plans for today: Well, let’s see… the office is closed again today, and I am terribly disappointed because I was really looking forward to sitting in a cubicle for 8 hours. Instead I am going to have to settle for sitting at the bar at the Blind Bear, where my favorite pair of librarian glasses usually works Friday day bar. I plan on staying out well into the evening. Hopefully there won’t be another episode of “When Cougars Attack” this weekend. We’ve already had at least two that I am aware of in 2015. Let’s see… it’s 9:15 and the Bear doesn’t open until 11… guess it’s Bardog then. Outta here for now, but you never know, could be a drunk post later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"