Music Fest weekend is done, and thank goodness. Yesterday I never even ventured as far as Beale Street – I simply did what I usually do on a Sunday. I went to Sleep Out’s about 11:30 and had a bottle of champagne and hung out with all the downtown regulars. About 3:00 I wandered down to Big Foot and had their Holy Smokes chicken tenders and a Big Foot Beer, then walked home for a nap which turned out to last 14 hours.<\/p>\n
I think my mattress is wearing out though. May be time to buy a new one, and mattresses are one item where it definitely isn’t worth it to buy cheap. What I’d really like is one of those Tempur-Pedic mattresses from Brookstone, with the foam that fits the contours of the body. A full-size mattress is $1,299 but that’s really not much more than I’d spend elsewhere for a quality mattress. I’m assuming I could keep my existing box spring. Anyone own one?<\/p>\n
Serrabee<\/a> writes in her blog, “Doesn’t it suck that all the people blogging about [Music Fest] seem to be to cool to go?” I wonder if she’s referring to me, among others. But that’s okay. I never claimed this was a music blog. If you think this is a music blog, I hope you like The Dempseys because they’re just about the only band I ever mention. I write about the big things in life, like bums and pigeons. Oh, and international waitresses. If you want to read about music I suggest you check out Rachel<\/a> and Rachel Two<\/a>. Well, except Rachel Two is in Hawaii this month and blogging about that instead.<\/p>\n Check out Rachel One’s blog of the Beale Street Music Fest<\/a> on the Commercial Appeal. It pretty much summarizes why I don’t go anymore. Mud, incredibly rude people (both the crowd and the people who work there), lousy bands who turn in half-assed performances.<\/p>\n Anyway, that mess is over for the year, and thank goodness for that. Now, we have a much better festival to look forward to, a mere 10 days away… BBQ Fest. I would like to once again announce that I am happily accepting any and all invitations to BBQ Fest tents.<\/span> If you have a tent and would like to have one of Downtown’s celebrity bloggers stop by, drop me an e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m off work today, so I’m going to hit one of the downtown lunch spots, then stop by the Saucer for an early Pint Nite (Pint Afternoon? They’re $2.50 all day), and then later tonight, I’ll hit the Saucer again for a second helping. As I look back on the past week, I realize that I’ve only been to the Saucer ONCE in the past seven days, which for me is just astonishing. Gotta catch up… I’ll be there tomorrow for trivia night too.<\/p>\n It’s a beautiful day (isn’t it funny how the temperature warms up 15 degrees as soon as Music Fest is over?) and I’m going outside!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Music Fest weekend is done, and thank goodness. Yesterday I never even ventured as far as Beale Street – I simply did what I usually do on a Sunday. I went to Sleep Out’s about 11:30 and had a bottle of champagne and hung out with all the downtown regulars. About 3:00 I wandered down … Continue reading “Glad that’s over”<\/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\/427"}],"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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}