It’s about 10:30 on a Saturday morning as I type this… I’ll start off with a link to what I used to do on Saturday mornings.<\/p>\n
<\/object><\/p>\nFound the video above on YouTube… classic match from Mid-South Wrestling which I used to watch every Saturday growing up. The Junkyard Dog had just beaten Bob Roop for the North American Heavyweight Championship. That meant he had to fulfill the champion’s contractual obligations to defend the title… unfortunately, that meant his first defense was against Ted DiBiase, who had requested a no-disqualification match with Roop and had stipulated that he’d leave town if he couldn’t beat the champion. At the time DiBiase was the only wrestler in Mid-South as popular as the Dog, and the two were best friends and the Dog had been DiBiase’s best man at his wedding. Pro wrestling being what it is, you can probably figure out how this one turned out even before watching the video.<\/p>\nOh and one other note… Reesor Bowden was the best ring announcer ever.\u00a0 R.I.P., Reesor.<\/p>\nI had a great time at the Rocky Horror Picture Show last night at the Orpheum.\u00a0 Before the movie there was a costume contest, and there were at least 50 entrants in both the male and female categories.\u00a0 I bought a package of props for $5 that were put to good use… fun to see rolls of toilet paper flying all over the Orpheum.\u00a0 I feel sorry for whoever had to clean that mess up.\u00a0 I noticed that a few typical Rocky Horror props were omitted from the bag… rice and confetti.\u00a0 Probably a move that saved the Orpheum hours of cleaning time, although some people brought their own.<\/p>\nI had another question from a reader – “You posted about bars where Ole Miss people gather to watch games… is there an Arkansas bar Downtown?”\u00a0 Absolutely there is… you will fit right in at Calhoun’s, where Max the owner is a huge Arkansas fan and even has a Hog Hat on display.<\/p>\nGetting ready to head out to the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.\u00a0 Some of the action I plan to check out today includes<\/p>\n\nMr. White – 1:30, Gayoso stage<\/li>\nGreg Hisky & His Whiskey Dixie Flyers – 1:45, Folklore Hall stage<\/li>\nJohn Bragg of Circa – 2:15, Cooking Stage<\/li>\nMichael Patrick – 4:30, Cooking Stage<\/li>\nBarbara Blue – 7:30, ArtsMemphis Stage<\/li>\nJack Oblivian & The Tearjerkers – 8:30, ArtsMemphis Stage<\/li>\nAl Kapone – 8:30, Gayoso Stage<\/li>\nExodus – 9:30, Gayoso Stage<\/li>\nHope Clayburn and Soul Scrimmage – 10:15, Folklore Store Stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRecommendation if you get hungry:\u00a0 Ella Kizzie’s greens and hot-water cornbread.\u00a0 You can get it at the kitchen next to the Folklore Store Stage.<\/p>\nI’ll have the camera and will take pics if I see anything interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s about 10:30 on a Saturday morning as I type this… I’ll start off with a link to what I used to do on Saturday mornings. Found the video above on YouTube… classic match from Mid-South Wrestling which I used to watch every Saturday growing up. The Junkyard Dog had just beaten Bob Roop for … Continue reading “Saturday update”<\/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\/4540"}],"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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Found the video above on YouTube… classic match from Mid-South Wrestling which I used to watch every Saturday growing up. The Junkyard Dog had just beaten Bob Roop for the North American Heavyweight Championship. That meant he had to fulfill the champion’s contractual obligations to defend the title… unfortunately, that meant his first defense was against Ted DiBiase, who had requested a no-disqualification match with Roop and had stipulated that he’d leave town if he couldn’t beat the champion. At the time DiBiase was the only wrestler in Mid-South as popular as the Dog, and the two were best friends and the Dog had been DiBiase’s best man at his wedding. Pro wrestling being what it is, you can probably figure out how this one turned out even before watching the video.<\/p>\n
Oh and one other note… Reesor Bowden was the best ring announcer ever.\u00a0 R.I.P., Reesor.<\/p>\n
I had a great time at the Rocky Horror Picture Show last night at the Orpheum.\u00a0 Before the movie there was a costume contest, and there were at least 50 entrants in both the male and female categories.\u00a0 I bought a package of props for $5 that were put to good use… fun to see rolls of toilet paper flying all over the Orpheum.\u00a0 I feel sorry for whoever had to clean that mess up.\u00a0 I noticed that a few typical Rocky Horror props were omitted from the bag… rice and confetti.\u00a0 Probably a move that saved the Orpheum hours of cleaning time, although some people brought their own.<\/p>\n
I had another question from a reader – “You posted about bars where Ole Miss people gather to watch games… is there an Arkansas bar Downtown?”\u00a0 Absolutely there is… you will fit right in at Calhoun’s, where Max the owner is a huge Arkansas fan and even has a Hog Hat on display.<\/p>\n
Getting ready to head out to the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.\u00a0 Some of the action I plan to check out today includes<\/p>\n
Recommendation if you get hungry:\u00a0 Ella Kizzie’s greens and hot-water cornbread.\u00a0 You can get it at the kitchen next to the Folklore Store Stage.<\/p>\n
I’ll have the camera and will take pics if I see anything interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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