{"id":24336,"date":"2020-11-15T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24336"},"modified":"2020-11-15T09:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:19:19","slug":"sunday-update-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/15\/sunday-update-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not going to be the most exciting blog post, I&#8217;ll warn you. There just isn&#8217;t much going on, and what is going on either is stuff I&#8217;ve previously blogged about already, or it just isn&#8217;t that interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s Willie Nelson concert at the Orpheum has been <a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/willie-nelson-2020\">postponed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WREG has coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/hundreds-gather-downtown-in-unity-walk-demanding-violence-across-memphis-to-end\/\">march to end gun violence<\/a> that happened Downtown yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Another vintage Memphis item has popped up on eBay. It&#8217;s an authentic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/VTG-80S-MEMPHIS-MUD-ISLAND-SCREEN-STARS-SINGLE-STITCH-T-SHIRT-YELLOW-SIZE-M-\/154189644008\">1980s Mud Island T-shirt<\/a>. They&#8217;re asking $36.99 for it.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby County Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph said Thursday that if you are in a crowd of 100 people in Shelby County, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/18057\/health-dept-covid-cases-stemming-from-symptomatic-people-not-staying-home\">3 or 4 of them could be infected with COVID-19<\/a>. Those of you in the process of deciding whether to attend large family holiday gatherings or Friendsgiving events might want to keep that statistic in mind.<\/p>\n<p>I still want to get a group together to Lyft down to Hernando&#8217;s Hideaway in Whitehaven to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2185300281766335\">Chicken Shit Bingo<\/a> one of these Sundays. Probably not gonna be today though.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the weekly link to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/firstresponses\/status\/1327738188216066051\">James Aycock&#8217;s COVID week in review<\/a>. Notable: In two weeks, we are on track to surpass our highest COVID numbers from the summer. Also notable: Thanksgiving, when lots of family gatherings will occur, is two weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Rep. Steve Cohen for tweeting this video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ran out of clairol? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g6nearcfbA\">pic.twitter.com\/g6nearcfbA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Cohen (@RepCohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepCohen\/status\/1327810319037722626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I had heard about it but hadn&#8217;t seen it. It appears that the Trumpster is no longer bothering to dye his hair orange. He knows it&#8217;s game over and just doesn&#8217;t care anymore. This is a sign of narcissistic collapse.<\/p>\n<p>This could be why Trump&#8217;s mood is so glum: USA TODAY reports that Republican electors in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/11\/14\/ploy-flip-electors-trump-rejected-republican-leaders-4-key-states\/6298966002\/\">won&#8217;t participate<\/a> in a Trump-devised scheme to flip their states to vote for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The AP electoral map now has called North Carolina for Trump, making the race Biden 290, Trump 232 with 270 electoral votes needed to win and Georgia&#8217;s 16 electoral votes still unclaimed but leaning Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Those who I talk to about my professional writing know that I&#8217;ve struggled to come up with an idea recipe. I finally hit it this morning, one that will allow me to generate a writing topic whenever I need. Pretty damn jazzed because I&#8217;ve been going through a major case of writer&#8217;s block since the beginning of October.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not going to be the most exciting blog post, I&#8217;ll warn you. There just isn&#8217;t much going on, and what is going on either is stuff I&#8217;ve previously blogged about already, or it just isn&#8217;t that interesting. Tomorrow&#8217;s Willie Nelson concert at the Orpheum has been postponed. WREG has coverage of the march &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/15\/sunday-update-90\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday 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\/24336"}],"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=24336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24338,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336\/revisions\/24338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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