{"id":28286,"date":"2024-12-23T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28286"},"modified":"2024-12-23T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:45:06","slug":"monday-update-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/monday-update-254\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start this post with a dessert recommendation: Memphis Chess Club makes awesome chocolate chip brownies. Big ones, too.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I was thinking this morning&#8230; the part of Madison Avenue that&#8217;s in the Downtown core is a coffee shop lover&#8217;s dream. Walking west from Fourth, you have<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boycottcoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boycott Coffee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphischessclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Chess Club<\/a> (which has a full coffee bar and you don&#8217;t need to be a club member to hang out there)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazygander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cray Gander<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/humbledrip.coffee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Humble Drip<\/a> (just off Madison at 7 N. Main inside Sam&#8217;s eatery)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheers to the folks who did the South Main Pajama Pub Crawl, which led off at Bardog yesterday. I hope you had as much fun at your remaining stops as you had at your first one.<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Memphis Commission is hiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomemphis.org\/jobs\/downtown-memphis-commission-clean-green-assistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clean &amp; green assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc-life.org\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC&#8217;s of Life<\/a> passed out essentials and a hot meal to the homeless Downtown this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The DM reports that Catherine &amp; Mary&#8217;s will get a $175,000 renovation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/centralstationmemphis.com\/happenings\/new-years-dj-funktual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DJ Funktual<\/a> will play Central Station Hotel&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve party.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Ryanthemind will play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/832126628940502\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22your_upcoming_events_unit%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYE at Pretty Taco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies host the L.A. Clippers tonight at 7.<\/p>\n<p>New troll!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28288\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600 1200w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/troll.jpg?w=1536 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was given the troll a week ago Saturday, but I held off introducing him to my blog readers because I hadn&#8217;t thought of a name. He now has one: Tuscadero, because I&#8217;m taking him as a sign that happy days are right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly back with a quick post tomorrow, but in case I&#8217;m not, Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips! <\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a> (8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start this post with a dessert recommendation: Memphis Chess Club makes awesome chocolate chip brownies. Big ones, too. You know, I was thinking this morning&#8230; the part of Madison Avenue that&#8217;s in the Downtown core is a coffee shop lover&#8217;s dream. Walking west from Fourth, you have Boycott Coffee Memphis Chess Club (which has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/monday-update-254\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday 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\/28286"}],"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=28286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28289,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286\/revisions\/28289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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