{"id":16478,"date":"2015-06-04T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=16478"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:31:15","slug":"book-signing-news-and-more-in-this-second-thursday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/book-signing-news-and-more-in-this-second-thursday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Book signing news and more in this second Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local author Austin McLellan will be reading from and signing his book <i>Twenty Grand<\/i> this Saturday at 1 PM at the South Main Book Juggler. The Book Juggler is in the Arcade Building just south of the famous restaurant. If you&#8217;re a late shopper at Memphis Farmers Market tomorrow, why not stop by?<\/p>\n<p>Plans for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/news\/2015\/06\/04\/plans-for-downtown-extended-stay-hotel-submitted.html\">extended-stay hotel<\/a> across the street from the Pyramid have been submitted.<\/p>\n<p>Choose901 has an <a href=\"http:\/\/choose901.com\/zac-woolfolk-creator-of-oxn-on-south-main\/\">interview with Zac Woolfolk<\/a>, owner of a new men&#8217;s clothing and lifestyle store on South Main. Blast, I walked right by that place during Trolley Night a week ago Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Food porn: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/3g6pK4KVYh\/\">Chocolate brownie with Andes mint ice cream at South of Beale<\/a>. Yummmmm. Chocolate mint is my favorite ice cream flavor. Next time I stop by the bar to harass Kaylea I will have to order this.<\/p>\n<p>Local singer Charvey Mac posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10152991175711376\">a snippet of his upcoming album Weekend Lights<\/a> that you can listen to. Charvey is one of the best singers I have heard, but he rarely plays Downtown. My friends Katie Mac (who shares a last name with him, though not related) and the Nuh-Uh Girl talked for years about how awesome he was, and finally a couple of years ago I caught a rare Green Beetle performance of his and completely understood what all the fuss was about. When the Saucer experimented with bringing back live music a couple of years ago, I urged the managers to book him, and they tried but he was in such demand that they couldn&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>The Peabody will have a TV in the skyway broadcasting the NBA Finals for tonight&#8217;s rooftop party.<\/p>\n<p>From The Onion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/new-claritin-flamethrower-incinerates-whatever-cau-50576\">New Claritin flamethrower incinerates whatever is causing allergies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I mentioned a flamethrower <img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/classic-smilies\/img\/icon_mrgreen.gif?w=840\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> )<\/p>\n<p>From Lifehacker: <a href=\"http:\/\/quickhacks.lifehacker.com\/how-to-make-watermelon-vodka-slushy-with-a-drill-and-a-1709047678\">How to make a watermelon vodka slushy with a drill and a wire hanger<\/a>. This has &#8220;BBQ Fest 2016&#8221; written all over it.<\/p>\n<p>This is cool: <a href=\"http:\/\/toyland.gizmodo.com\/play-magnetic-tetris-on-your-fridge-while-you-try-to-de-1709039096\">Play magnetic Tetris on your refrigerator door while deciding what to eat<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have any food in my fridge currently so it would be quick game for me. I use my refrigerator for other things, like storing my vintage 2012 Aldo&#8217;s Pizza Pies to-go box collection. Someday in the future that is going to be worth a lot of money on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas basketball fans: <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2482642-2015-nba-mock-draft-predicting-every-pick-in-early-june\/\">This projected NBA draft<\/a> has Bobby Portis going at 15 and Michael Qualls going at 49. I like it.<\/p>\n<p>Home from work, PBR time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local author Austin McLellan will be reading from and signing his book Twenty Grand this Saturday at 1 PM at the South Main Book Juggler. The Book Juggler is in the Arcade Building just south of the famous restaurant. If you&#8217;re a late shopper at Memphis Farmers Market tomorrow, why not stop by? Plans for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/book-signing-news-and-more-in-this-second-thursday-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book signing news and more in this second Thursday update&#8221;<\/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\/16478"}],"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=16478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16479,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions\/16479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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