{"id":26282,"date":"2022-12-22T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2022-12-22T06:56:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:56:18","slug":"thursday-update-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/thursday-update-258\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to former Memphis Grizzly Pau Gasol, who has been nominated for the pro basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time readers of this blog will remember me writing about Sunday brunch bartender B-RAD. I first met him at Blind Bear almost 10 years ago, and he&#8217;s also worked at Pontotoc Lounge, Silly Goose, and most recently Atomic Rose. He&#8217;s one of the best bartenders in the city. And he&#8217;s about to have a new Sunday home. B-RAD is excited about what the Thacker-Rhodeses are doing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibismemphis.com\/\">Ibis<\/a> (314 S. Main, in the former Pontotoc Lounge space) and wants to be a part of it. His first Sunday is January 1.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll come see you sometime B-RAD. Maybe after football season so I don&#8217;t have to look at Rahul in his stupid Chiefs beanie. Just don&#8217;t introduce me to any psychos.<\/p>\n<p>Details have been announced for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/blind-bear-11th-birthday-\/946553192972088\/\">Blind Bear&#8217;s 11th birthday party<\/a> this Friday. DJ Tree at 9, DC the Snapper taking pics 9-11.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/a86bbe475ba34a43483fdab24c2e90cd\/national-regifting-day\">National Regifting Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisweather1\">MemphisWeather.net Twitter<\/a> is the social media account to follow today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Temps are in the mid 40s tonight &amp; don&#8217;t move much through 3pm Thu when a major front arrives. A few rain showers becomes light snow from 3-8pm with less than 1&#8243; expected. Temps plummet into the 20s by evening as wind chills reach 0! HRRR future radar Thu 12-9pm shown.<br \/>\n\/KG <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1pZRIEqjiQ\">pic.twitter.com\/1pZRIEqjiQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MemphisWeather.net (@memphisweather1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisweather1\/status\/1605760040576569345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>OFFICE MANAGERS: Let your staff go at 2 PM today. Don&#8217;t put them through the stress of driving through this shit in rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers improved to 10-3 with a win over Alabama State last night. Now it&#8217;s time for conference play. Next up is USF a week from today.<\/p>\n<p>Excited about Christmas! Once again I am going to my friends Randy and Theresa\u2019s house out in Eads. I\u2019m staying overnight, then Allison and Dani (the butt sluts) are coming over for Christmas dinner. \u201cBeef tenderloin OK?\u201d Randy asked, which is like asking a monkey if bananas are an acceptable dinner option.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, did I just compare myself to a monkey?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too bad the girls\u2019 schedules don\u2019t allow them to stay overnight. R and T\u2019s upstairs bar is a fabulous late-night hangout. And I was prepared to make an offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s flip a coin,\u201d I would have told Dani. \u201cWinner gets a spare bedroom all to themselves. And the loser gets stuck with Allison as a roommate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Got to wrap this one up. Randy is making a rare weekday appearance Downtown for Bardog breakfast. Going to introduce him to drunk Price Is Right. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to former Memphis Grizzly Pau Gasol, who has been nominated for the pro basketball Hall of Fame. Long-time readers of this blog will remember me writing about Sunday brunch bartender B-RAD. I first met him at Blind Bear almost 10 years ago, and he&#8217;s also worked at Pontotoc Lounge, Silly Goose, and most recently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/thursday-update-258\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/26282"}],"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=26282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26284,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions\/26284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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