{"id":29176,"date":"2025-10-16T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29176"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:33:04","slug":"thursday-update-362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/thursday-update-362\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Neon Mooners&#8217; outdoor &#8217;90s country show, scheduled for this Saturday at Slider Inn Downtown, has been rescheduled for October 25 due to predicted severe weather.<\/p>\n<p>Want to have ducks as co-workers? Chez Philippe, the French restaurant in the Peabody Hotel, is hiring a fine dining manager. Just think&#8230; you could work there for a few years, then put the ducks down as references when you&#8217;re ready to move on to the next gig.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine &amp; Mary&#8217;s seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomemphis.org\/jobs\/catherine-marys-general-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general manager<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomemphis.org\/jobs\/catherine-marys-bartender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bartender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From Action News 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/10\/15\/work-is-working-leaders-want-memphians-get-back-downtown-amid-task-force-deployment-highlight-upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown leaders are begging people to come out<\/a> (headline paraphrased according to my observations), highlight upcoming events<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/dining\/2025\/10\/16\/best-burgers-in-memphis-restaurants-recommendations\/85977820007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z117240p000950c000950e006800v117240b0074xxd117465&amp;gca-ft=196&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The CA has 5 Memphis burgers you must try<\/a>&#8230; and 2 of them are on G.E. Patterson Avenue. I&#8217;m sure you won&#8217;t be surprised to read that one of them is the Soul Burger at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s. The unpretentious but delicious burger at Renee&#8217;s Sandwich Shop is the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/10\/15\/meal-main-bring-one-of-a-kind-dining-experience-downtown-memphis-one-night-only\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action News 5 has a look at the upcoming Meal on Main<\/a>, which will LITERALLY be on Main.<\/p>\n<p>From Vanity Fair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/virginia-giuffre-memoir-maralago-ghislaine-epstein?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book preview by Virginia Giuffre<\/a> describing her treatment by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago when Giuffre was 16<\/p>\n<p>MLK50 has an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/mlk50.com\/2025\/10\/15\/memphis-tightens-scrutiny-on-the-unhoused-as-task-force-arrives-but-offers-no-funding-to-help-them-find-shelter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how the homeless are faring<\/a> now that the Safe Memphis task force is in town.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed at the Union Mission last night&#8230; and in addition to the shower, meal, and sleep, I got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/WHITIN-Recycled-Sneakers-Lightweight-Flexible\/dp\/B0B7HGJ94Z\/ref=sr_1_16?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9XYLVUuJyAGKZ05c57dY1K_RYv41IVrEvUJ-j51DToH-KZDWIYtT98ipATpY-GHHeH0xBYspwI4Gjx79AKqA9tr3yvLE7v9Eo_KdWw5bI4ZtezJ39726vL9l3gYMV2XLl2NlHoCljV73gqncE5jCO7V0Qd1KfgQHqdVa2wGdHDdLHXEgDSt93m0retRTStUPhOdQo3Nd5Z4tKtcw4PTsaBqn8MoCrz8DG2FEr9IgYZ0eyqIcXBnIKO310KWzzkHpMKUTQrmukEGOHNYVCPoOgRh2MzFWeGrsIZypgunaZnI.GdLv7pZXx6AoXv97T_sVWUgbTl7YjaqUBlIwnUo3bYA&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=whitin%2Bshoes%2Bfor%2Bmen&amp;qid=1760635312&amp;sr=8-16&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new pair of shoes<\/a>. I wear the same size as one of the pastors there and he keeps an eye out for me. Elastic shoelaces are the best.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with a Frupdate.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/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>The Neon Mooners&#8217; outdoor &#8217;90s country show, scheduled for this Saturday at Slider Inn Downtown, has been rescheduled for October 25 due to predicted severe weather. Want to have ducks as co-workers? Chez Philippe, the French restaurant in the Peabody Hotel, is hiring a fine dining manager. Just think&#8230; you could work there for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/thursday-update-362\/\" 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\/29176"}],"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=29176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29178,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29176\/revisions\/29178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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