{"id":2221,"date":"2008-06-21T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T01:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2008-06-21T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T01:25:39","slug":"sat-update-corkscrew-beer-recap-of-last-night-people-who-annoy-me-more-than-bums-and-memphis-farmers-market-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/sat-update-corkscrew-beer-recap-of-last-night-people-who-annoy-me-more-than-bums-and-memphis-farmers-market-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat update: Corkscrew, beer, recap of last night, people who annoy me more than bums, and Memphis Farmers Market dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went liquor and beer shopping today to get the supplies I need for TubeTopalooza.\u00a0 I had several people give excellent suggestions on where to buy liquor, but in the end I decided the thing was to do was to shop locally.\u00a0 So I headed to the Corkscrew on South Front next door to the new Blue Monkey.\u00a0 Scott gave me excellent advice on how much liquor and wine to buy, based on expected number of party guests.\u00a0 He also helped me pick out vodka, rum, bourbon, chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, and pinot grigio to serve.\u00a0 And, he gave me a discount because I bought so much.\u00a0 A great shopping experience and I’d recommend the Corkscrew to anyone planning a party.\u00a0 I got out of there for about $100 less than I expected, thanks to Scott’s liquor estimates and his recommendations of inexpensive white wines.<\/p>\n

Then I headed over to West Memphis Walgreens to get beer for the party.\u00a0 I went with Miller High Life Light (Mikey the Camera Nazi serves it at his trolley tour porch parties – it’s not half bad) and Old Style (the PBR of Chicago, and we have Max from Calhoun’s to thank for turning me on to that one).\u00a0 They’re not exactly the finest beers ever made, but I’d take either one over crappy Bud Light.\u00a0 (John D: “Wha?… You’re not serving Bud Light at your party?\u00a0 I’M NOT COMING!”)<\/p>\n

Last night I hit the Rooster to catch Snozberry.\u00a0 Got there at 9:30 right as they started.\u00a0 9:30 is really too early to go to the Rooster… there were a grand total of six customers there when I walked in.\u00a0 I ordered some nachos, and the place started to fill up by the time I was done eating.\u00a0 Ended up hanging out with “Flo” (of “Glo” and “Flo” who agreed to be guest bloggers 4 months ago but never submitted anything).\u00a0 We talked about how to get involved in promoting Memphis, the BFF candidates for July, all kinds of stuff.\u00a0 “Flo” didn’t have a clear favorite for the July BFF, but she did have one suggestion:\u00a0 “Don’t bring BFF 1.0 back!”\u00a0 Yeah a lot of people tell me that.\u00a0 I forgot to invite “Flo” to TubeTopalooza, and she pointed out that she’d look hot in a tube top and needs to be there.\u00a0 So I invited her.\u00a0 “Glo” can also rock a tube top and is also invited as well.<\/p>\n

After that, a friend of ours got us into The Shadows, the swanky club above 152 on Beale Street.\u00a0 First time I’d been in since they converted it.\u00a0 Very nice indeed… they did a good job.\u00a0 I was told we got there early (1:30), that the place starts to get packed later in the evening and is still going strong at 4:30.\u00a0 I didn’t stay up until 4:30 to find out.\u00a0 Had a PBR at Hoop’s Bar, discussed what I need to do to be a Pub Olympics judge tomorrow, came home.<\/p>\n

Woke up today about 10, threw yesterday’s clothes on, stumbled to Jack’s for Mountain Dew.\u00a0 As I passed Court Square, I heard, “Sir, can I ask you something.”\u00a0 Oh no.\u00a0 Not even awake 5 minutes and I already had my first bum of the day.\u00a0 Although, I was a little surprised because I saw the bum patrol in the park on their bikes.<\/p>\n

I soon wished<\/em> the woman who approached me was a bum.\u00a0 She wasn’t there to ask for money… she wanted to know, “Have you been saved?”<\/p>\n

I waved her off and kept walking, never breaking stride.\u00a0 “I’m just walking to the store,” I said to her.<\/p>\n

“Do you know what ‘born again’ means?” she said.\u00a0 “Do you know where you’re going to spend eternity?”\u00a0 I walked faster and faster, hoping she’d get the hint.\u00a0 She didn’t.\u00a0 By this point she was running after me.\u00a0 When she caught up with me and said, “Can I give you some literature?” I lost it.<\/p>\n

“I DON’T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!\u00a0 I’M JUST TRYING TO WALK TO THE STORE AND GET A DRINK!!!” I yelled at her.\u00a0 She looked at me like I had just run over a kitten.\u00a0 I kept walking.\u00a0 She didn’t follow but she stared at me the entire next block until I made it to Jack’s.\u00a0 By the time I walked back she was engaged in conversation with people on park benches.\u00a0 I crossed over to the other side of Main Street Mall and avoided her.<\/p>\n

While on the Main Street Mall, I snapped a photo of this poster listing the schedule of Memphis Farmers Market dinners for the summer (click to see the image in a size large enough to read the detail):<\/p>\n

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Every month a local chef holds a special dinner at his or her restaurant, featuring fare bought at the Memphis Farmers Market<\/a>, which runs from 7 AM to 1 PM every Saturday next to the train station on GE Patterson.\u00a0 In addition to the dinner at Circa tomorrow night, there will be MFM dinners at Restaurant Iris, River Oaks, Felicia Suzanne’s, and Interim between now and October.<\/p>\n

No idea what I’ll end up doing tonight… it’s after 8 PM and I haven’t made any plans.\u00a0 Oh, crap, I just missed the party at Shelton Clothiers!\u00a0 Sorry, Tom.\u00a0 I got so wrapped up in stuff I was doing online today (more on that in the next post) that I forgot about the party at 6 PM.\u00a0 The rest of the night is free… I’ll probably start at the usual place and migrate from there.<\/p>\n

Brunch tomorrow at the Blue Monkey at 11, then Pub Olympics at Hoop’s Bar at 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went liquor and beer shopping today to get the supplies I need for TubeTopalooza.\u00a0 I had several people give excellent suggestions on where to buy liquor, but in the end I decided the thing was to do was to shop locally.\u00a0 So I headed to the Corkscrew on South Front next door to the new … Continue reading “Sat update: Corkscrew, beer, recap of last night, people who annoy me more than bums, and Memphis Farmers Market dinners”<\/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\/2221"}],"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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}