{"id":18825,"date":"2016-10-15T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=18825"},"modified":"2016-10-15T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:48:20","slug":"ok-back-saturday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/ok-back-saturday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, back. Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My PBR koozie finally died. The koozie, brought back by a friend from a Colorado trip, was a brown paper bag, the perfect size to hold a tallboy, with a thin insulated inner lining and the PBR logo on the front. I expected it would last about a month, but it made it 57 days before finally becoming unable to hold another beer at D-RANKS with B-RAD (appropriate, since that&#8217;s where I met the friend who gave it to me) this past Sunday. I thought it was the coolest koozie ever.<\/p>\n<p>Until I saw this tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INPIZZAWECRUSH?src=hash\">#INPIZZAWECRUSH<\/a> get yourself learnt in the pizza-koozie department. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PabstBlueRibbon\">@PabstBlueRibbon<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bG7jSNCKur\">https:\/\/t.co\/bG7jSNCKur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3RvXRggcWp\">pic.twitter.com\/3RvXRggcWp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Vulgar Chef (@TheVulgarChef) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVulgarChef\/status\/786293753640280065\">October 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other beer news, local brewery Wiseacre is holding a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiseacrebrew.com\/product-cat\/sale\/\">10 day sale<\/a> on cold weather items like hoodies and socks.<\/p>\n<p>Chili lovers: Come to The Exceptional Foundation of West Tennessee&#8217;s Chili Cook-off in Overton Square on November 5. Be sure to stop by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ef.rockwellvisual.com\/chili-cook-off\/2016-team-11\/\">Blind Bear team<\/a> and get some of Colin&#8217;s award-winning Prohibition Chili in you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-presidential-debate-topics-for-next-week-dont-even-1787724436\">Topics for the October 19 presidential debate<\/a> have been announced. &#8220;Fitness to be president&#8221; is on there. My, my, that will be interesting. It almost sounds like the Commission on Presidential Debates is setting Trump up for a meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Petra Cafe is said to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highgroundnews.com\/devnews\/PetraCafe.aspx\">eyeing a Downtown location<\/a> for sometime in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1087277091307435\/\">The Psychedelic Furs play the New Daisy<\/a> tonight at 7:30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1711820135808006\/\">Chalking in Memphis<\/a>: On October 28, the day prior to Race for the Cure, you can grab some chalk on Beale Street and write the name of a woman you know who survived breast cancer, or a loved one that you lost to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Obama: The president issued an executive order allowing U.S. citizens to bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/10\/14\/obama-cuba-regulations-expands-trade-travel-rum-cigars\/92042662\/\">Cuban cigars and rum<\/a> back from the island.<\/p>\n<p>Plan on being in the kitchen this weekend? Food &amp; Wine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/blogs\/9-killer-pumpkin-desserts-halloween\">9 killer pumpkin desserts<\/a> you can make. Don&#8217;t forget that the Memphis Farmers Market is open til 1 today if you need a pumpkin or two!<\/p>\n<p>Mollie Fontaine&#8217;s has announced their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/186766465064828\/\">Halloween Party<\/a> and it&#8217;s actually on Halloween, Monday, October 31. Hosted by Doug Osborn, with DJs A.D. and Jordan Rogers. $10 cover.<\/p>\n<p>High Cotton is hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1116208148454348\/\">Pints for Pits<\/a> tonight in support of this often-misunderstood dog breed.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial Appeal has an excellent article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/life\/2016\/10\/14\/urban-bicycle-food-ministry-takes-memphis-streets\/91497004\/\">Urban Bicycle Food Ministry<\/a>. The ministry distributes hundreds of nutritious burritos weekly to those who are hungry. The great thing about this organization, as rider Frank Rouse puts it, is &#8220;we do not judge. I&#8217;ll put a burrito in someone&#8217;s hand if they have a can of beer in the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/627196530751640\/\">Memphis Smoke<\/a> cigar festival happens today at 1 at the Tinder Box, 346 S. Main. Over 20 confirmed vendors and more still being added.<\/p>\n<p>Rice Drewry and Friends play the Center for Southern Folklore tonight at 8. $10 cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/1B00508520C0AA9E?camefrom=CFC_FEDEX_WEB_FEFA&amp;ab=reloaded\">The Comedy Get Down Tour<\/a> comes to FedExForum tonight. Performers include Cedric &#8220;The Entertainer,&#8221; Eddie Griffin. D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the Farmers Market for my weekly visit. After that I&#8217;m going to spread a little sunshine! Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My PBR koozie finally died. The koozie, brought back by a friend from a Colorado trip, was a brown paper bag, the perfect size to hold a tallboy, with a thin insulated inner lining and the PBR logo on the front. I expected it would last about a month, but it made it 57 days &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/ok-back-saturday-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OK, back. Saturday 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\/18825"}],"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=18825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18827,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18825\/revisions\/18827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->