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Here’s a pic of the Nuh-Uh Girl eating. I believe this was the third of the 28 meals she had at Friends & Family Night.<\/p>\n Here’s a pic of Lauren eating a cherry.<\/p>\n \n Hanging lights in the porta-potties. We’re trying to make our restrooms female-friendly and we’ve been told by our advisors that lights are much appreciated.<\/p>\n \n The sign for the booth that team member\/artist Barry created for us.<\/p>\n \n Our sponsor, Circa by John Bragg<\/a>, one of the finest restaurants in all of Downtown Memphis. That’s John in the orange shirt.<\/p>\n \n Team member\/Commercial Appeal arts writer Christopher “Skippy” Blank was about three and a half sheets to the wind and was sharing his philosophy on life with anyone who would listen. Here he is taking a hit from the team hookah.<\/p>\n I’ve started a BBQ Fest ’08 photo album on Picasa which you can view here<\/a>. Every day I’ll add more pics to it. My plan is to exhaust my camera battery and the spare battery each day, which will let me shoot about 300 images\/day, give or take. Currently the album has 35 pics from setup Sunday and another 130 from Friends & Family Night. More to come.<\/p>\n I headed to the Saucer after Friends & Family Night shut down. Roxanne Lemmon was playing and they were good as always, but the bar had about as many douche bags in it as on a typical Friday\/Saturday night. One beer and I was OUT. Looked in Big Foot to see if my former BFF was bartending, but she wasn’t so I didn’t stop in for a beer. Watched some aggressive bums chase people down for a few minutes, then called it a night.<\/p>\n More to come tomorrow. Will try to update the photo album on a timely, nightly basis but no promises, especially not Thursday night with ’80s night at Raiford’s to follow BBQ Fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight I headed to Tom Lee Park for Friends & Family Night, a special preview of BBQ Fest for team members and close friends and relatives only. Shot a lot of pics. Usually Mikey the Camera Nazi handles photo duties, but he’s busy being Mikey the Bartender and Mikey the Door Gestapo this weekend, so … Continue reading “BBQ Fest Day 0: Friends & Family Night”<\/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\/2015"}],"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=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n