{"id":29015,"date":"2025-08-28T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29015"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:50:51","slug":"thursday-update-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/thursday-update-355\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have first-hand knowledge of a donation need the Union Mission at 383 Poplar currently has: men&#8217;s underwear. They&#8217;ve been running out, causing men who take a shower late in the day to put back on the same pair of underwear they took off. They need all common sizes (medium-2XL) and styles (briefs, boxers, boxer briefs).<\/p>\n<p>A semi truck <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/it-could-have-been-a-disaster-semi-driver-going-wrong-way-on-i-55-bridge-detained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went the wrong way<\/a> across the I-55 bridge yesterday. Kudos to the cops who got the truck stopped and detained the driver before anyone got hurt.<\/p>\n<p>BWOK BWOK. Chicken chicken. BWOK BWOK. Chickenhead. A 9-year-old karaoke queen who went viral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/08\/28\/project-pat-viral-9-year-old-girl-set-rock-beale-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will join Project Pat on stage<\/a> at the Beale Street 901 Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>For those not familiar, 901 Day &#8211; September 1 &#8211; is a day of civic pride in Memphis. That day was selected because 901 is the local area code. Choose901 has <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/901-day-is-coming-heres-a-guide-to-get-you-celebrating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a list of 901 Day events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>University of Memphis students, staff, and faculty, you&#8217;ve got some yumminess coming your way. Edge District hip-hop pizzeria Slim &amp; Husky&#8217;s is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/slim-huskys-pizza-uofm-location\/522-69ec0078-77fd-4485-b95a-a627dd70e3ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening a location<\/a> on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant family that includes the Majestic Grille and Cocozza American Italian seeks an <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/the-majestic-grille-and-cocozza-american-italian-memphis-80-event-and-catering-specialist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event and catering specialist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have first-hand knowledge of a donation need the Union Mission at 383 Poplar currently has: men&#8217;s underwear. They&#8217;ve been running out, causing men who take a shower late in the day to put back on the same pair of underwear they took off. They need all common sizes (medium-2XL) and styles (briefs, boxers, boxer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/thursday-update-355\/\" 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\/29015"}],"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=29015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29017,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29015\/revisions\/29017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->