An era has come to an end. I lost my Foursquare\/Swarm mayorship of the Flying Saucer last night. I had been mayor of the Saucer since early 2011, but I’m going there less these days (although I still very much consider it one of my “big five” Downtown bars). At least a good guy stole it from me. Congratulations Jeremy.<\/p>\n
Save the date: There will be a Friday night wine tasting<\/a> at Quench Friday, July 17 from 4 to 6 PM.<\/p>\n You don’t have to wait until the 17th to sample wines though… there’s a wine tasting TODAY. The first Wednesday of every month, Riverfront Grill in Beale Street Landing will offer free tastings of select wines. Today’s tasting starts at 4:30.<\/p>\n Here’s a really good deal<\/a> from Spaghetti Warehouse for the 4th and 5th. Pick three entrees from a list of four, and they will serve double-sized portions of those entrees, family style, for $30. Be sure you print out the coupon and take it in for the deal.<\/p>\n There’s a petition going around to keep the I-55 bridge open during the redesign of the I-55\/Riverside\/Crump intersection. The Arkansas State Chamber has endorsed it.<\/a><\/p>\n From Cooking Panda: Breakfast sushi is filled with cheese, tater tots, eggs and jalapenos, and wrapped in bacon.<\/a> BBQ team: Are we thinking about a breakfast-for-lunch day for 2016? This might be a recipe to bookmark.<\/p>\n From Bored Panda (what’s up with all the pandas today?): This $596 point-and-shoot camera’s zoom is so insane that you can see the moon moving<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s too bad there’s not a way people can call the Memphis Farmers Market on Saturday morning and ask if I’m up there, the way you can call a bar (for example, the Blind Bear on Sunday morning) and ask if I’m there. Such a service would be very convenient for people who are a bit obsessed with my whereabouts.<\/p>\n Programming note: Probably no lunchtime post tomorrow because I won’t have time. Our office is having a fish fry tomorrow catered by Boiling Point. If there’s enough news I will try to get a post online after work, or before work if I get up early enough.<\/p>\n A bunch of my friends are traveling back to Memphis from Cancun today. I can’t wait to hear the stories. I have a few stories to tell you, too.<\/p>\n I’ll lead off at Jessica’s bar at about 5:30 at Silly Goose. Trivia at the Blind Bear later in the evening. Outta here for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An era has come to an end. I lost my Foursquare\/Swarm mayorship of the Flying Saucer last night. I had been mayor of the Saucer since early 2011, but I’m going there less these days (although I still very much consider it one of my “big five” Downtown bars). At least a good guy stole … Continue reading “End of an era + Wednesday news”<\/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\/16601"}],"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=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16602,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions\/16602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}