I don’t get the Red Ball Project at all. For those of you who don’t know, last week and this week a giant red ball that is supposedly a work of art is visiting locations around Memphis. It was at 409 S. Main yesterday and as far as I could tell, all it did was block the sidewalk. Perhaps the point is to make a media blitz that some random object coming to town is an artwork of importance, and then see how many people come take selfies with it. That’s “art” in 2016. Selfies.<\/p>\n
Apologies for those of you who went by Maciel’s yesterday after I blogged it was open, and found it to be closed. I got that info from a reliable source – they told the person who is probably their best customer (he ate there twice Saturday) that they would be open, but I guess they changed their minds. Understandable – you have to have some rest or you burn out.<\/p>\n
Last week I mentioned that there is a new cigar store on South Main. Its name is The Tinder Box<\/a> and is at 346 S. Main.<\/p>\n Massively successful BBQ team Victory Lane BBQ<\/a> now has its rub in Kroger. They were the grand champions at Southaven Springfest a couple of weeks ago. I also see signs that another top team may soon start selling its rub via mail too. I will try to get more info about that at BBQ Fest.<\/p>\n If you’re curious what caused all the wind damage this past weekend, MemphisWeather.net has a blog on the wake low<\/a> that affected the metro.<\/p>\n Train Day Memphis<\/a> comes to the Railroad and Trolley Museum in Central Station Saturday, June 4. An Iowa Pacific “City of Granada” train set will be on display. There will also be E-units and passenger cars painted in Iowa Central brown and orange.<\/p>\n Ghost of the Blues<\/a> will be on stage at the Orpheum this Friday. Said to be a “love letter to the blues,” it is headlined by Mud Morganfield, eldest son of Muddy Waters, stepping into the persona of his father.<\/p>\n The rescheduled MyHQ alley party is tomorrow night in Barboro Alley next to Local, with craft beer, DJ Alex Turley, ping pong, art displays, and that red ball I don’t understand.<\/p>\n Four and a half more workdays then my BBQ Fest vacation begins. Load-in is this Saturday through Tuesday of next week. Wednesday of next week is Friends & Family Night. Thursday-Saturday of next week are the public days and the Sunday following is load-out. Of course, I’m not allowed to be involved in the heavy lifting of load-in and load-out anymore given my new role on the team, but my public relations duties should keep me busy throughout the week.<\/p>\n Already getting way more “hey, can I come to your booth at BBQ Fest?” requests than I have guest wristbands to give out. To those who have asked, I will try my best to get you in, but due to us hitting capacity as set by the fire marshal during peak hours I can’t promise it. Reminds me, I have a “tips for getting into booths at BBQ Fest” in Drafts somewhere that I need to find and finish.<\/p>\n I have a BBQ meeting tonight at 7 at Blind Bear, so I may as well just go ahead and lead off there after work. Probably will have some news to put on the team website in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t get the Red Ball Project at all. For those of you who don’t know, last week and this week a giant red ball that is supposedly a work of art is visiting locations around Memphis. It was at 409 S. Main yesterday and as far as I could tell, all it did was … Continue reading “Monday update”<\/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\/18156"}],"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=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18157,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions\/18157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}