{"id":4313,"date":"2009-08-01T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T18:33:36","slug":"pics-from-trolley-tour-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/01\/pics-from-trolley-tour-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Pics from Trolley Tour last night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 8 a lot of the gang left for Kooky Canuck for Frank’s birthday dinner.\u00a0 I walked down the street and checked out Mpact Memphis’ new office at 506 S. Main.\u00a0 The place was packed and was by far the biggest party on the street.\u00a0 Mpact has really made a comeback the past year and they have some really good people taking the initiative these days.\u00a0 Very happy to see it.<\/p>\n

Then I walked over to the SMA cookout.\u00a0 The grill had already shut down but there was still Boscos beer.\u00a0 People told me the Nuh-Uh Girl had been by.\u00a0 “Now we understand why there are so many photos of her eating in your blog,” one of the members told me.\u00a0 “She eats all the time!<\/em>”\u00a0 Yep.<\/p>\n

About 9:45 I headed north.\u00a0 The plan was to meet up with the birthday group at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 However, the Saucer was packed – dudes, dudes, dudes everywhere.\u00a0 It gets that way on Friday nights but it was far worse than usual.\u00a0 I got about 10 feet in the front door before I realized I most definitely did not want to be there.\u00a0 Later I learned that Downtown is unusually crowded with guys this weekend because Pi Kappa Alpha is having their national convention here.<\/p>\n

So I walked up Second and ran into Air Traffic Mike.\u00a0 We decided to go to the Goose, but it was way crowded.\u00a0 Then we hit Bardog, but it was way crowded.\u00a0 So we walked back down Main.\u00a0 “Circa?” Mike suggested.<\/p>\n

“Perfect,” I said.<\/p>\n

And it was perfect.\u00a0 We got there right as their reverse happy hour started.\u00a0 There were a fair number of people at the bar, but it wasn’t overcrowded, and you could carry on a conversation without shouting.\u00a0 The dinner rush had passed, and John Bragg came out and talked to us for a while.\u00a0 We ate some delicious soft shell crab and proscuitto asparagus rolls, and did shots of Jameson in these skull glasses:<\/p>\n

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Later in the evening I ended up at Bardog again, then Paula & Raiford’s.\u00a0 “Just once I’d like to be sober enough by the time I get here [Paula & Raiford’s] to remember what happens,” I commented to my friend Nick.\u00a0 Last night wasn’t the night for it though.<\/p>\n

No idea what I’ll get into tonight.\u00a0 Who knows, there may be more pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"