{"id":26767,"date":"2023-06-25T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26767"},"modified":"2023-06-25T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:43:05","slug":"sunday-update-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/25\/sunday-update-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bold Journey recently sat down for a chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/boldjourney.com\/meet-chef-tim-vimonnimit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Vimonnimit,<\/a> the chef behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/soinumber9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soi Number 9<\/a> food truck. The truck sells authentic Thai street food. In addition to the truck, they have an on-campus dining location at UT Health Sciences Center.<\/p>\n<p>Atomic Rose, the LGBTQ-friendly lounge and restaurant on Second one block south of Beale, is putting out a <strong>casting call<\/strong>. They seek burlesque and go-go dancers for a recurring event. Any dancer, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, is invited to apply. atomicrosememphis@gmail.com or 901-922-5645<\/p>\n<p>WREG has <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/901-kidsfest-celebrates-creativity-of-mid-south-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a look at 901 KidsFest<\/a> which happened at the Cossitt Library yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>FedExForum has <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/drake-reschedules-its-all-a-blur-tour-date-in-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescheduled<\/a> Drake&#8217;s concert, originally scheduled for this Thursday, to Sunday, August 6. That messes up the plans of fans who took off work and booked flights and hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/e899e6abe5abb441a9ea6055ff891c95\/national-catfish-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Catfish Day<\/a>, a good excuse to stop by Flying Fish for lunch. Kooky Canuck and Ben Yay&#8217;s are two other Downtown locations where you can get &#8220;the salmon of the South.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#x26a0;&#xfe0f; A hot, humid day ahead with a strong potential for an evening line of storms capable of high wind and hail. Afternoon heat indices will approach 110\u00b0 ahead of the line, which should move through between 6-8pm. Stay weather aware today! (HRRR simulated radar from 5-10pm shown) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wUGrYGpjal\">pic.twitter.com\/wUGrYGpjal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MemphisWeather.net (@memphisweather1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisweather1\/status\/1672930631314014208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/local\/a-look-at-the-upcoming-4th-annual-craft-food-wine-festival-with-the-event-founder-summer-activities-to-do-901-bluff-city-eating-chefs-music-art\/522-69eb2ba3-cec8-48da-8944-544536017141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC 24 discussed today&#8217;s Craft Food and Wine Festival<\/a> with founder Cristina McCarter.<\/p>\n<p>Want some cheap entertainment? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230614-scientists-explain-why-peanuts-dance-when-dropped-in-beer?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drop peanuts in a glass of beer.<\/a> I&#8217;d like to remind everyone that The Peanut Shoppe and the Blind Bear are just steps away from each other.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of ESPN&#8217;s 30 for 30 documentary TV show, did you know there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/30for30podcasts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30 for 30 podcast<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>An attempted revolt in Russia revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/vladimir-putins-weakness-unmasked-yevgeny-prigozhins-rebellion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin is not as strong as people think<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you saw men in dresses Downtown yesterday, they were doing an &#8220;Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride&#8221; pub crawl. They came in Bardog for about 30 minutes. Super cool group of people.<\/p>\n<p>Also at Bardog yesterday, I got to listen to Butt Slut #1 argue with her friends over whether she was going to wear a T-shirt and shorts to a &#8220;prom for adults&#8221; event. I swear, if not for the 24-year age difference, I&#8217;d wonder if we were twins separated at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Staying home today&#8230; job hunting&#8230; reading my Abraham Lincoln biography&#8230; maybe taking a LinkedIn Learning course on data analysis. I will be out at Bardog early tomorrow morning (8:00) and will do my Monday blog post from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold Journey recently sat down for a chat with Tim Vimonnimit, the chef behind the Soi Number 9 food truck. The truck sells authentic Thai street food. In addition to the truck, they have an on-campus dining location at UT Health Sciences Center. Atomic Rose, the LGBTQ-friendly lounge and restaurant on Second one block south &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/25\/sunday-update-171\/\" 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\/26767"}],"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=26767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26768,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767\/revisions\/26768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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