{"id":22028,"date":"2019-02-01T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=22028"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:22:04","slug":"friday-update-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/friday-update-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Commercial Appeal opinion piece that is a must-read. My friend Deni Reilly, co-owner of the Majestic Grille with her husband Patrick, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2019\/01\/31\/among-believers-downtown-memphis-revival-opinion\/2699214002\/\">a firm believer in the Downtown revival<\/a> and she spells out the reasons why. I couldn&#8217;t agree more! Thursday of next week will be my 17th anniversary as a Downtown Memphian. Even if I won the lottery, I wouldn&#8217;t live anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown core neighborhood doesn&#8217;t have many fast food restaurants, but among the ones it does have are two Lenny&#8217;s, one at Front and Court (Falls Building) and the other at Main and Peabody Place. Next week is Guest Appreciation Week, and from February 4-9 all 7 1\/2 inch subs will be $4.99. I will definitely be making a stop or two in the Falls Building next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Memphian&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymemphian.com\/article\/2760\/Daily-Briefs\">Daily Briefs<\/a> from yesterday has a piece about Lab Creative LLC, the new web design and digital marketing firm at 119 S. Main. As I wrote yesterday, they are having a launch party at Pontotoc Lounge Wednesday at 6. I should probably go up there and network with those folks since my skill set and theirs overlap.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis in May tweeted a photo of its 2019 Great American River Run medallions:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GARiverRun?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GARiverRun<\/a> medals have been unveiled and both feature a spectacular engraving on the back to commemorate the city&#8217;s bicentennial. Start your Memorial Day weekend with us by signing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MIMGARR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MIMGARR<\/a> at the lowest price!<\/p>\n<p>&#x2139;&#xfe0f;: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IxEaA1ckDl\">https:\/\/t.co\/IxEaA1ckDl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvK4Q4L1jH\">pic.twitter.com\/TvK4Q4L1jH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Memphis in May (@memphisinmay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisinmay\/status\/1091020939922415617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interesting article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2019\/01\/24\/restaurants-getting-too-loud\">Are restaurants getting too loud?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2240446179547381\/\">Joe Austin<\/a> plays the Blind Bear tonight at 10 PM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2254891494768251\/\">Drink-N-Draw<\/a> is back at the Ghost River taproom this evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/643720986047232\/\">Tripl Thret<\/a> plays the blues at the Dirty Crow Inn tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I was at Silly Goose happy hour last night when the bar&#8217;s phone rang. Jessica answered it. &#8220;Paul Ryburn? Yes, he&#8217;s here.&#8221; It reminded me of a few years ago, when a woman would call B-RAD&#8217;s bar at the Bear (she was a vegetarian, I recall?) and ask if I was there, and upon hearing that I was, she&#8217;d come up there. After Jessica hung up, she told me yesterday&#8217;s caller was none other than B-RAD himself, and he was on his way up to the Goose. The good news is, he brought his friend Mary Ann.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22030\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg?resize=500%2C375 500w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg?resize=1200%2C900 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg?w=1680 1680w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_4623.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bad news is, he also brought Rahul and Tony. I told Rahul and Tony about Saturday&#8217;s crawfish boil at Max&#8217;s Sports Bar, featuring taters, corn and sausage in the boil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4618.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22025\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4618.jpg?resize=500%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4618.jpg?resize=500%2C500 500w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4618.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4618.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4618.jpg?w=750 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess the construction worker, the cop, the G.I., and the motorcycle\/leather guy were not available for this picture. A friend of ours had posted to Facebook that Chipotle&#8217;s hot sauce had been rough on his butthole and Rahul &#8220;Liked&#8221; the post. Tony asked if anyone wanted to see a &#8220;dicture.&#8221; They both spent substantial time telling everyone how they are straight and like women a lot, because, you know, that&#8217;s what straight guys talk about all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Been a productive morning&#8230; I&#8217;ve paid the rent and got shopping at Walgreens done. Think I&#8217;ll go see what the lunch specials at Bardog are. They always put that info on Twitter so I could just go look there, but walking over sounds like so much more fun. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Commercial Appeal opinion piece that is a must-read. My friend Deni Reilly, co-owner of the Majestic Grille with her husband Patrick, is a firm believer in the Downtown revival and she spells out the reasons why. I couldn&#8217;t agree more! Thursday of next week will be my 17th anniversary as a Downtown Memphian. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/friday-update-99\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday 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\/22028"}],"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=22028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22031,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions\/22031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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