{"id":371,"date":"2006-04-01T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-04-01T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T17:54:00","slug":"saturday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/01\/saturday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll start this off with a few pics I snapped last night at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s.  These are menus from March 1983, when South Main was still very much a red light district, and E&amp;H was a restaurant downstairs and a brothel upstairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/EHmenu1-725078.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/EHmenu1-722829.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/EHmenu2-760375.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/EHmenu2-758120.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/EHmenu3-799210.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/EHmenu3-797032.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>The menu at E&amp;H has since been cut to just one item, the Soul Burger, so don&#8217;t expect to go there and order &#8220;Pig Tails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had a good time hanging out with fellow blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/mbjlegalgirl.livejournal.com\/\">Kat<\/a> and her friend KH at the Trolley Tour last night.  Kat wore a tube top as promised.  Dammit, I forgot to take a pic!  Kat, did KH take any?  Don&#8217;t forget, two months from today, we&#8217;ll kick off Tube Top Month in this blog.  Every post will make a reference to tube tops, no matter how irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>I also had to take steps to avoid The Most Annoying Woman On The Planet last night.  I&#8217;ve written about her before:  This is the woman who brought her damn dog to Cooper-Young Fest, despite numerous &#8220;PLEASE, NO PETS&#8221; signs and ads.  This is the woman who routinely makes plans to meet you at 9:00 and then shows up at 10:50.  This is the woman who made a New Year&#8217;s resolution not to be more than a half hour late when meeting people.  Anyway, I won&#8217;t get into all the details of our conversation last night, but I&#8217;ll just say that I had to take evasive maneuvers to get away from her.  ATTN C. AND I.: I&#8217;m really starting to see your point about her &#8220;using&#8221; me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymemphis.tv\">MyMemphis.tv<\/a>, the website connected to Wednesday night&#8217;s premiere of the My Memphis movie, is now online.  It contains interviews with young, hip Memphis professionals about what they like about the city, and should be a tremendous marketing piece for Memphis.  Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news from Romania is that their president is meeting with the leader of China to improve Romanian-Chinese relations.  They&#8217;re even building a Chinatown near Bucharest.  How cool is that?  Now, if I go to Romania, not only will I be able to hit on hot Romanian girls, but hot Chinese girls as well.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me&#8230; I was surfing some websites recently, and I came across an ad for a video that teaches American men how to seduce Asian women.  Its marketing tagline read,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">&#8220;Ah, so GI!  You like make ficky, ficky with sexy Oriental girl?  Well now you can&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good god&#8230; that&#8217;s just completely politically incorrect and totally wrong.  It made me laugh really hard though, so I thought I&#8217;d include it.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230; it appears that Conte&#8217;s, the Italian restaurant on Madison just east of Second, is now staying open for dinner until 9:00 every night they are open (Tuesday-Saturday).  Good for them!  We need to support businesses that see themselves as part of the downtown neighborhood and stay open late so its residents can get a good dinner.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a restaurant review from regular reader and former neighbor Don&#8230; he says that he recently ate at Sgt. Jalapeno&#8217;s Tortilla Company on Adams (inside the Comfort Inn) and the fajitas are excellent.<\/p>\n<p>All right&#8230; it&#8217;s a beautiful day and it&#8217;s time to go outside.  See you tomorrow with &#8220;Deal of the Week&#8221; and possibly other news.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they have next-day air delivery for that tape on seducing Asian women?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll start this off with a few pics I snapped last night at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s. These are menus from March 1983, when South Main was still very much a red light district, and E&amp;H was a restaurant downstairs and a brothel upstairs. The menu at E&amp;H has since been cut to just one item, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/01\/saturday-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday 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\/371"}],"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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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