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My world business traveler friend Randy returned to Memphis last week. This time he’d been to New Zealand. He brought a goodie bag for me to Bardog with him Saturday.<\/p>\n

A bottle of vodka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Sunday morning I woke up around 7:30. With the bars not opening until 11, I found myself bored at home with nothing to do. I decided to start on the chocolate bar and the bottle of vodka. By 10 AM I’d finished half of each. With an hour remaining to kill, I took a seat on the sofa…<\/p>\n
… and fell asleep for what seemed like a brief moment…<\/p>\n
Then I woke up and checked my phone. It was 12:35. I thought something was wrong with my phone! But then I looked out the window and saw the sun directly overhead, and I realized I really had slept two-plus hours.<\/p>\n
I threw on my clothes and hurried to Blind Bear. Chico behind the bar saw me come in. He ran to the kitchen door and shouted, “Tony, he’s here!”<\/p>\n
A few seconds later, Tony came out of the kitchen, on his phone. “Yeah. He’s here. He just came in,” Tony said to whomever he was talking to.<\/p>\n
Turns out I had told my friends Allie Cat and Butt Slut #1 I’d meet them at 11 at Bardog. When I no-showed, they were worried sick. Oops!<\/p>\n
Let’s have a look at local basketball this week:<\/p>\n
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Monday, December 18 (tonight): Memphis Grizzlies away at Oklahoma City Thunder, 7:00 PM. TV: Bally Sports<\/li>\n
Tuesday, December 19: Memphis Tigers at home vs. Virginia Cavaliers, 6:00 PM. TV: ESPN2. Virginia was ranked #22 in last Monday’s AP Top 25.<\/li>\n
Tuesday, December 19: Memphis Grizzlies away at New Orleans Pelicans, 6:30 PM. TV: TNT. Ja Morant is eligible to return as of this game.<\/li>\n
Thursday, December 21: Memphis Grizzlies at home vs. Indiana Pacers,7:00 PM. TV: Bally Sports. Free rally flag to the first 10,000 fans.<\/li>\n
Saturday, December 23: Memphis Tigers at home vs. Vanderbilt, 3:00 PM. TV: CBS<\/li>\n
Saturday, December 23: Memphis Grizzlies away at Atlanta Hawks, 7:00 PM: TV: Bally Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tickets are still available for Bardog’s New Year’s Eve 2024 Bash<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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What does a ticket get you?<\/p>\n
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Six and a half hours (7:00 to 1:30) access to a food buffet – and we’re talking PREMIUM food here. Fliet mignon, shrimp cocktails, that kind of stuff.<\/li>\n
A completely open bar<\/li>\n
Ring in the new year in a familiar place – a place that isn’t overcrowded like most NYE parties (they’re capping ticket sales at 100) and isn’t full of douchebags<\/li>\n
Vueve Cliquot champagne toast at midnight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Tickets<\/a> are $150 and that includes tax and gratuity. I don’t recommend a lot of New Year’s Eve parties, because they mostly all suck – but this is one I can get behind.<\/p>\n
From the DM: Hire Local develops health care jobs in Memphis Medical District<\/a><\/p>\n
Today is National Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Memphis Made Brewing Co. will have a tailgate and watch party<\/a> for December 29’s Liberty Bowl. Food truck Big River Dogs will be on site. Prefer to drink at home? They’ll be selling six-packs to go for $9.01 all day.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Brett Roler, new COO<\/a> of the Downtown Memphis Commission.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies jobs!<\/p>\n
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Assistant, Facility and Operations Programming<\/a><\/li>\n
Human Resources Business Partner<\/a><\/li>\n
Manager, Training & Talent Development<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Today’s specials at Bardog:<\/p>\n
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Beef stroganoff pasta – 22<\/li>\n
Grilled buffalo chicken sandwich – bacon, American, lettuce, tomato, pickle, ranch – 17<\/li>\n
Soup: Lobster bisque<\/li>\n
Dog: Bacon, red pepper, tomato, pepperoncini, spicy mayo<\/li>\n
Mussels: Garlic, tomato, white wine<\/li>\n
Bourbon pecan pie<\/li>\n
Chocolate cake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Since the specials are time-sensitive, I’ll stop here and hit Publish. Possibly a second post later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My world business traveler friend Randy returned to Memphis last week. This time he’d been to New Zealand. He brought a goodie bag for me to Bardog with him Saturday. These olives are SO GOOD! I wonder if I took them to Aldo’s Pizza Pies, would they put them on a pizza for me? “Kiwi … Continue reading “Monday update”<\/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\/27394"}],"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=27394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27399,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions\/27399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}