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<\/a><\/p>\nDJs Joe and Jay<\/p>\n
Rockin’ Santa<\/p>\n Food by the Majestic Grille.\u00a0 Last night was the first time I’ve tried their chili.\u00a0 Outstanding!\u00a0 I believe they have it every Wednesday.<\/p>\n Rudolph the red-nosed… horse?<\/p>\n The silent auction<\/p>\n The Nuh-Uh Girl, holding a plate of food, tries to dodge the camera.<\/p>\n … but persistence pays off.\u00a0 Here’s a pic of the Nuh-Uh Girl eating.<\/p>\n Neon Kris<\/p>\n I am going to take the Blues Foundation to task for one little thing.\u00a0 Let me quote their Facebook listing for the event:<\/p>\n “The Blues Foundation will hold our annual fund raiser November 27, 2009 at The Warehouse, 36 E GE Patterson, Memphis, TN. The \u201cRent Party\u201d will begin at 8:00 pm with food from The Majestic Grille and Memphis\u2019 best beer from Ghost River Brewery.<\/p>\n Jay and Joe will spin your favorite Blues music; we will have great Silent Auction and Blues Foundation merchandise. Admission is only $10 at the door.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reading that listing, would you assume that food and beer are covered in the price of admission?\u00a0 Especially if you’ve been to Warehouse parties in the past, where that is usually the case.\u00a0 As it turned out, the food was covered with admission price, but you had to pay for beer.\u00a0 The prices were very reasonable – $5 for 3 tickets for pints of Ghost River beers, no doubt a bargain.\u00a0 However, due to text messaging word got around that they were charging for beer, and I know for a fact that 5 to 10 of my friends who were planning to attend were turned off and did not come.\u00a0 The point is, if there’s a cash bar you need to be sure and specify that in ads, event listings online, etc.<\/p>\n Again, just a minor gripe, and at the end of the day I’m thrilled with the job both the Blues Foundation and Kris do to support great music in Memphis.<\/p>\n After leaving the party, I had a beer at Calhoun’s, then headed north.\u00a0 As I got to my usual weekend hangout locations though, I thought, “You know, I’ve had ENOUGH of hanging out at bars and drinking.”\u00a0 At least for one night.\u00a0 So I came home and went to bed at 10:30.\u00a0 As a result, I was up and feeling great at 8 AM.<\/p>\n Played some more poker yesterday.\u00a0 I moved up to the $13 buy-in 6max turbo Sit’n’Go tournaments, and finished the day up $19.\u00a0 I also discovered that there are freeroll tournaments I can buy into on PokerStars with the frequent player points (FPPs) I earn for playing.\u00a0 These freeroll tourneys pay out real money to the winners.\u00a0 So I entered two of them, and man, the players were horrible – they were dropping like flies.\u00a0 There were 4000 entrants, and 1000 had already busted out by the end of the first blind level.\u00a0 I’m going to enter some more today and try a new strategy – fold every hand through the first four blind levels, unless I get a monster like KK or AA.\u00a0 By that time so many players will have likely dropped out that I’ll have made it past the bubble and into the money.\u00a0 Then I can start playing aggressive poker and attempt to come in first. First and second place in these freerolls pay north of $100 each.<\/p>\n Attn pro wrestling fans:\u00a0 Here’s a good blog to read:\u00a0 The World According to Dutch. <\/a>It’s by Dutch Mantel, who wrestled in Memphis for years, and until recently booked TNA Wrestling.\u00a0 He’s a hell of a storyteller.<\/p>\n Snuggie Pub Crawl is tonight… undecided if I’ll do it.\u00a0 The Snuggie I ordered never came in the mail, so I’d have to purchase one at Walgreens.\u00a0 Plus I haven’t purchased my ticket to the crawl, and the Arkansas-LSU game is on tonight at 6 PM on ESPN, and I may well just go to a bar (Saucer probably, unless Fire Sale is bad) to watch it.<\/p>\n Several people pointed out that my post about viewing the shuttle yesterday was inaccurate, as the shuttle had already landed.\u00a0 As I told Internet legend The Mexican Wolf, when I start getting paid full-time to write this blog, I’ll start fact-checking.<\/p>\n That’s all for now… time to log on to PokerStars and attempt to build my bankroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to the Rent Party fundraiser at Kris K’s Warehouse last night after Trolley Tour.\u00a0 Here are a few pics. DJs Joe and Jay Rockin’ Santa Food by the Majestic Grille.\u00a0 Last night was the first time I’ve tried their chili.\u00a0 Outstanding!\u00a0 I believe they have it every Wednesday. Rudolph the red-nosed… horse? 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