{"id":3233,"date":"2009-02-21T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2009-02-21T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T17:20:12","slug":"shot-through-the-heart-and-youre-to-blame-you-give-love-a-bad-name-ratt-motley-crue-warrant-poison-ozzy-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/shot-through-the-heart-and-youre-to-blame-you-give-love-a-bad-name-ratt-motley-crue-warrant-poison-ozzy-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shot through the heart. And you’re to blame. You give love a bad name. +Ratt +Motley Crue +Warrant +Poison +Ozzy +etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Rooster’s 1st birthday celebration continues tonight as Aquanet takes the stage.\u00a0 Let me say it one more time:\u00a0 Aquanet. Is. Awesome.\u00a0 They’re an ’80s hair band cover band, and they do more than just perform the songs, they have the big hair and costumes and lights and everything.\u00a0 Quite a spectacle, and the Rooster’s stage is a great place to hear them.\u00a0 Most likely I’ll stop by the Rooster tonight and catch however much of Aquanet’s first set that I can, before it’s time to head to Orleans on Front\/Voodoo Room<\/a>‘s Mardi Gras party to observe their PBRtini and crawfish pie eating contest.<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon got off to a boring start, as I had the pleasure of editing 72 domain records to get my College Logo Shopping<\/a> sites back online.\u00a0 All the individual college subdomains got knocked off when GoDaddy migrated my hosting account to a new server.\u00a0 They’re back up now, so you can once again buy some Memphis Tigers<\/a> stuff to support your team.<\/p>\n

About 3 yesterday afternoon something really started to bother me.\u00a0 A week and a day earlier, I had been at Calhoun’s for their weekly Buzztime Poker tournament, and I was basically handing out free chips to Benjie and Chuck, the two best players, given the way that I was playing.\u00a0 “Those guys are good, but I should at least be able to go toe-to-toe with them,” I thought to myself.\u00a0 So I took out a notebook and wrote for an hour and a half, analyzing what I had done wrong and what habits I need to change when I play.<\/p>\n

Then I headed to the Saucer for a beer and a conversation with Air Traffic Mike.\u00a0 From there it was on to the Red Rooster for their crawfish boil.\u00a0 Some info about the Rooster that I’ll pass along:<\/p>\n

The crawfish boil wasn’t just a one-time thing for their birthday.\u00a0 They’re going to do it every Friday night, $15 for all you can eat, while crawfish are in season, 6 to 9 PM.<\/li>\n

They have PBR back on tap!!!!!<\/li>\n

I found out more about their Wednesday trivia night.\u00a0 It’s run by memphistrivia.com and the prizes are $50\/$20\/$10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The way the crawfish boil works is, you pay the entry fee and get a wristband.\u00a0 The wristbands are merely to verify that people eating crawfish have paid, so that you don’t get two people trying to split a box on one entry fee.\u00a0 You get a ticket which you trade in for a box of crawfish.\u00a0 If you want a refill, you can go to back to the door, show your wristband, and they’ll give you another ticket.\u00a0 You can do that as often as you want a refill for the duration of the crawfish boil.<\/p>\n
The Rooster does their crawfish right.\u00a0 When I handed in my ticket and a styrofoam box came back, I found that it was filled with not only crawfish but also with a tater, corn on the cob, onions, and a miniature smoked sausage that had been marinating in the pot with the mudbugs.\u00a0 Very nice!\u00a0 Crawfish were on the small side but it’s very early in the season, so they will get bigger soon.<\/p>\n
I had the time wrong – I thought it started at 5, but if I’d read the flyers they put out, I would’ve seen the correct start time of 6.\u00a0 Still, though, at 6:10 Sam told me “we’ll have the crawfish out in about 15 minutes.”\u00a0 Actually, it was 6:40 before the first ones came out of the pot.\u00a0 Hopefully they’ll get a little more punctual in future weeks.<\/p>\n
The Rooster was decorated with birthday stuff.\u00a0 Sam was wearing a “happy birthday” Tiara.\u00a0 When he got in the booth to DJ, I nicknamed him “DJ Tiara” and texted it to the Rooster’s video message board.\u00a0 Soon after, Sam took the tiara off.\u00a0 Did I make Sam self-conscious?\u00a0 I didn’t think such a thing was possible.<\/p>\n
Stayed there for two boxes of crawfish and a couple of PBRs.\u00a0 My planned next stop was the Saucer to try Lazy Magnolia’s special-brew sweet potato beer, but the poker itch was really getting to me.\u00a0 “I wonder if anyone’s playing Buzztime Poker at Calhoun’s?” I thought.\u00a0 So I walked down there, and sure enough, a few people were.\u00a0 I played until midnight, using the strategy I devised in the notes I had taken earlier in the day, and did dramatically better, ending up on both the weekly and monthly “chip leader” boards by the time I left.\u00a0 I also noticed a few mistakes I was still making that cost me large pots, and will work on those next time.\u00a0 My goal is to be able to hold my own against anyone in poker (at least in Downtown Memphis) by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Max told me that Calhoun’s is going to do a weekly crawfish boil soon too, probably on Sunday afternoons.\u00a0 He doesn’t have a start date in mind yet.\u00a0 He asked me about the size of the crawfish I’d eaten at the Rooster and said he’s going to wait for them to get bigger.<\/p>\n
I ended up sitting next to Mikey, who went into his “walking, talking commercial for Calhoun’s” mode.\u00a0 It was my 6th appearance at Calhoun’s in 9 days, and Mikey took it as a sign that I’m finally realizing that Calhoun’s is as significant a place as the Eiffel Tower, Jesus’ tomb, and the Washington Monument.\u00a0 He tried to engage me in a conversation about whether Calhoun’s or Bardog is a better neighborhood bar.\u00a0 Needless to say he had plenty of arguments in Calhoun’s favor.\u00a0 I just rolled my eyes.\u00a0 I really have nothing bad to say about either place – both have done everything just about perfectly.\u00a0 It was a pointless conversation.<\/p>\n
Then he expressed his astonishment that a few days ago, when people decided to do a jambalaya cookoff and Mardi Gras party at Calhoun’s tonight, I didn’t immediately shelve my existing agenda for the evening and go all-in.\u00a0 Again I rolled my eyes.\u00a0 I have no doubt that their Mardi Gras party will fantastic and fun and festive and the food will be delicious and it will be a wonderful celebration of Downtown Memphis.\u00a0 It’s just that tonight, I choose to do something else.\u00a0 Deal with it.\u00a0 I like Calhoun’s a lot but it turns me off when people get overly gung-ho about the place.\u00a0 Last November, I had another Calhoun’s regular pestering me to go to their Thanksgiving potluck after I’d already told her five times<\/em> I wasn’t going to be there.\u00a0 That kind of thing does not increase the frequency of my visits.<\/p>\n
Side note here:\u00a0 A shout-out to the organizer of tonight’s party, and of many previous parties, at Calhoun’s.\u00a0 She’s made sure I’ve been aware of them, and she’s asked me to blog about them, but she’s never badgered or pestered me to show up.\u00a0 She’ll simply say “hope you can make it” and leave me to make my own decision.\u00a0 I appreciate and respect that.<\/p>\n
I do want to try Calhoun’s BBQ nachos sometime soon though, which I’ve heard are very good.\u00a0 If my calendar stays clear for Thursday evening, I may get up there about 6 and give their nachos a try and then get a crack box and put my poker skills to the test at 7.<\/p>\n
So anyway, I stayed at Calhoun’s bar until 1:30 in the morning, then walked north… comtemplated the idea of Raiford’s, but decided to save that for another night when I have more energy.\u00a0 Had a go-home beer at Bardog, and landed in bed about 2:30.<\/p>\n
The Tigers play UTEP at 3 PM on ESPN.\u00a0 Undecided whether I’ll go anywhere to watch the game.\u00a0 I kinda don’t want to get the day started that early, since I plan on staying out at Voodoo Room until at least 1.\u00a0 In any case, looking forward to a fun-filled Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Red Rooster’s 1st birthday celebration continues tonight as Aquanet takes the stage.\u00a0 Let me say it one more time:\u00a0 Aquanet. Is. Awesome.\u00a0 They’re an ’80s hair band cover band, and they do more than just perform the songs, they have the big hair and costumes and lights and everything.\u00a0 Quite a spectacle, and the … Continue reading “Shot through the heart. And you’re to blame. You give love a bad name. +Ratt +Motley Crue +Warrant +Poison +Ozzy +etc.”<\/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\/3233"}],"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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}