{"id":22205,"date":"2019-03-29T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=22205"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:26:52","slug":"friday-update-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/friday-update-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Girls and a Whip will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/656731628090799\/\">Cupcake Dinner<\/a> in the Underdog Room of Bardog Tavern Sunday, April 14 at 6:30 PM. You already knew you could have breakfast for dinner, but did you know you could have it in the form of cupcakes? Here are the courses:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ham, potato, and cheddar quiche, baked in a wonton wrapper with green onion garnish<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Garlic cheddar grits cake topped with a shrimp kabob and remoulade drizzle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sweet potato hash cake with a slice of bacon and a poached egg on top<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s &#8211; Caramel macchiato cupcake with marscapone cheese butter cream icing, a slice of French toast on top, crowned with bacon crumbles and a blueberry reduction drizzle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each course will be expertly paired with wine or a cocktail by Bardog&#8217;s very own Melissa. Cost is $40 and seating is very limited so an RSVP is required. Call 901-472-2253 to make your reservation.<\/p>\n<p>For my friend Katie Mac:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you need a reason to smile then remember that someone built a water slide for ducklings &amp; they are totally here for it&#x1f603; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k6GKiT3IGU\">pic.twitter.com\/k6GKiT3IGU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QasimRashid\/status\/1111237702886789123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Withers Collection Museum &amp; Gallery on Beale Street, featuring the work of photographer Ernest Withers, will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/342482196385052\/\">commemorative history tours<\/a> on Thursday, April 4, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s death. The tours will begin on the hour 10 to 3, and will include a short lecture, a guided tour of the Civil Rights Exhibition, and a collectible takeaway. $7 adults\/$5 students.<\/p>\n<p>Edge Motor Fest, celebrating the new automotive history museum opening at 645 Marshall, now has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgemotorfest.com\/\">a website<\/a> and it&#8217;s a very good one. As your #1 source of news and information about The Edge, I plan on being there!<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic of The Edge, Evelyn &amp; Olive on Madison is having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/277570049833445\/\">jerk chicken festival<\/a> there today from 4 to 8. While there, enjoy their signature cocktail &#8220;The Crazy Jamaican.&#8221; Or in some cases, &#8220;The Batshit Crazy Jamaican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huling Avenue will be blocked between Tennessee and Wagner while the railroad works on repairing an overpass. The closure will start this morning at 9 and is expected to last until Monday, April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I tried the Grub food truck at the Thursday Court Square food truck rodeo. I got the Korean beef quesadilla.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22207\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg?w=1680 1680w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_4728.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely delicious! One of the very best Thursday food truck meals I have had. The Korean beef is also available in the form of a sandwich or burrito. All entrees come with fries. The truck has a variety of hot sauces, and there are to-go cups with lids to make it easy for you to take hot sauce back home or back to the office.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies&#8217; G-League affiliate the Memphis Hustle has advanced to the second round of the G-League playoffs. They play the Rio Grande Valley Vipers tonight at 7 and the game will be broadcast on Facebook Live. I saw that in the last game, 6&#8217;9&#8243; Yuta Watanabe got some time at point guard. The Japanese Magic Johnson?<\/p>\n<p>If you love beer and people, as well as music, food, trivia, and good vibes, there may be a job for you. Ghost River is looking to hire a bartender for its taproom, 15-25 hours a week, mostly nights but some days. Come by and fill out an application, or email info@ghostriverbrewing.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/941-songwriter-fest-2019\">94.1 Songwriter Fest<\/a> comes to the Halloran Centre tonight. It will feature the music of three country hit songwriters: Ryan Hurd, Brandon Kinney, and Parker Welling.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Ladies&#8217; Day Out at Bass Pro at the Pyramid:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ladies!! &#8211; This Saturday -3 \/30 We have a day planned for you at Bass Pro Pyramid &#8211; From Archery to Fishing come shop the store, attend seminars and enter giveaways from 10 am &#8211; 2 pm. Archery and Bow, Knife Sharpening, Handgun Basics, &amp; Casting Perfection. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Memphis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Memphis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/basspro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#basspro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/byAVpMBVQ1\">pic.twitter.com\/byAVpMBVQ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bass Pro Pyramid (@BassProPyramid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BassProPyramid\/status\/1110208677292793857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>YOGA! The Kroc Center will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/354468462075286\/\">aerial yoga<\/a> on Saturday, April 13.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Rock Cafe will kick off a weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1263531840477184\/\">Open Mic Night<\/a> hosted by Amber Rae Dunn next Thursday at 8. They&#8217;ll have a house guitar and expert sound. Performers get free parking and discount food.<\/p>\n<p>With the baseball season under way, I&#8217;ve got a couple of baseball-related articles for you. JSTOR Daily has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/how-baseball-became-a-profession\/\">how baseball became a profession<\/a>. The first team to put all its players on salary was the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869. In the early decades, baseball was not looked upon as a worthy profession, but rather the work of ruffians and hooligans. It took decades of work to evolve the sport&#8217;s reputation into one of a gentleman&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Deadspin opines that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/the-best-way-to-see-america-is-to-visit-every-last-mino-1832499257\">the best way to see America is to visit every last minor league ballpark<\/a>. There are 159 of them total. Take on this task and you&#8217;ll venture not just to tourist towns like Memphis, but to smaller towns like Johnson City.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis 901 FC has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphis901fc.com\/OffThePitch\">Off the Pitch<\/a> video series so you can get to know the team, the players, and the fans better during the soccer club&#8217;s inaugural season.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget that you have a chance to try the Cousins Maine Lobster food truck without leaving Downtown today. The truck will be parked at Stock &amp; Belle, 387 S. Main, for Trolley Night this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1011235889000727\/\">Memphis Ten<\/a> will be on display tonight at Jack Robinson Gallery, 44 Huling. Come view the art of\u00a0Houston Cofield, Brandon Dill, Ivy-Jade Edwards, Paige Ellens, Amy Hutcheson, Ziggy Mack, LaAndrea Deloyce Mitchell, Sara Moseley, Robert Sims, and Najee Strickland. There will be artist talks, wine, and snacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedexforum.com\/events\/mercyme-imagine-nation-tour-190329\">Mercy Me&#8217;s Imagine Nation Tour<\/a> stops at FedExForum tonight, with special guests Crowder and Micah Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get a sense of how a visitor perceives Memphis, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nedplaysbridge.co.uk\/\">Ned Plays Bridge<\/a>, a Londoner who came to Memphis for the bridge tournament last week and this week. He&#8217;s staying in the Chisca while he is here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been recommending <em>The Gaslighting Effect<\/em> to protect yourself from the worst manipulators. Follow the author on Twitter for lots of good quotes like this one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A narcissist wants to know your deepest darkest secrets so they can Gaslight you with them. They will take those secrets &amp; mix with lies to paint an unflattering picture.. this turns people against you; while your emotional reactions to the abuse are used to make you look crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 REVA STEENBERGEN (@bookgaslighting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bookgaslighting\/status\/1111354910128377856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of my Final Four went down last night, as Michigan lost to Texas Tech. There was some good news though&#8230; Tennessee lost! Purdue beat the Vols in overtime. UT&#8217;s ranking prior to the tournament would have suggested at least an Elite Eight finish. As usual, though, they underperformed. Typical Tennessee. I think the Vols are so bad for so long that when they finally hit a decent stretch (like their football team beating 5 cupcakes and getting lucky in a 6th game) that people give them too much credit. But then once reality sets in (like getting shellacked by South Carolina), expectations come back down to earth.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. I&#8217;m going to spend the next several hours on my new interest: Data Science. It&#8217;s field that blends software engineering, math and statistics, and human behavior, all interests of mine. Much of it is a practical application of graph theory, which was one of my favorite math classes in college. It also gives me a reason to pick up the Python programming language, which has never crossed my path previously. The nice thing about installing Linux Mint on the laptop I inherited from my mom is that Python is part of the default installation. So I&#8217;m going to have some fun nerding out, and tonight I plan to head south to Trolley Night. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Girls and a Whip will host a Cupcake Dinner in the Underdog Room of Bardog Tavern Sunday, April 14 at 6:30 PM. You already knew you could have breakfast for dinner, but did you know you could have it in the form of cupcakes? 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