{"id":615,"date":"2006-10-15T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=615"},"modified":"2006-10-15T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T15:02:00","slug":"sunday-update-vagrants-my-world-famous-blog-dos-equis-special-lager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/sunday-update-vagrants-my-world-famous-blog-dos-equis-special-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update: Vagrants, my world famous blog, Dos Equis Special Lager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just now I walked up the Main Street Mall to Jack&#8217;s to buy my morning Mountain Dew and my Sunday paper.  As I passed Court Square, there was a group of five bums, obviously already drunk, sitting on the benches near the entrance to the park, hooting and hollering and screaming and carrying on.  I looked across the mall and I saw a couple eating breakfast on the patio of Sleep Inn, clearly appalled at what they were seeing.  Two more people who will leave with a negative impression of Downtown.  I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again:  <span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:130%;\">Memphis will never have a first-class downtown until the city gets serious about cleaning up the bum\/vagrant\/panhandling issue.<\/span>  Other cities do it; why can&#8217;t we?  <a href=\"http:\/\/smartcitymemphis.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/weve-had-enough-of-this-homeless-crap.html\">Smart City&#8217;s blog had an excellent post on the matter a couple of weeks ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I walked up the mall, I noticed the the Main Street Convenience Store on the first floor of The Renaissance Apts.\/99 Tower has closed.  Downtowners have given the place various nicknames over the years &#8211; &#8220;Ghandi Mart,&#8221; &#8220;Haji&#8217;s Fart Mart,&#8221; etc.  Never thought that place would close, but there&#8217;s butcher paper and a &#8220;For Lease&#8221; sign in the window.  Guess the store was kind of redundant with Jack&#8217;s right across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night I stopped in the Tap Room for a beer, and Niles the bartender told me, &#8220;Paul!  You&#8217;re world famous!&#8221;  I asked what he meant.  &#8220;Today we had people from India come in here, and they told us that they had to stop in because they read about the Tap Room on your blog!&#8221;  That&#8217;s pretty cool.  Hope they not only had a beer, but something to eat off King&#8217;s Palace\/Tap Room&#8217;s excellent menu, which I&#8217;ll say once again is the best on Beale.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a lot of people were upset when the Flying Saucer stopped selling Dos Equis Special Lager on draft.  In my opinion (and a lot of people apparently agree), the Special Lager is a better beer than the more common Dos Equis Amber.  Well, if you want it all you have to do is walk up the street&#8230; Rio Loco has it on draft, and keep in mind that they have Happy Hour from 2 to 10 where you can get a 25 oz. mug for $3.99.<\/p>\n<p>All right&#8230; short post today because I&#8217;ve got a full plate of activities.  From 11 to about 1:30 I&#8217;ll be at Sleep Out&#8217;s (don&#8217;t forget, this is bartender Kimberley&#8217;s last day, so come say goodbye), then I&#8217;ll be doing the Downtown Home Tour the rest of the afternoon.  After that I&#8217;ll hit Huey&#8217;s for the last hour of Di Anne Price&#8217;s set, and all of The Dempseys&#8217; performance.  As always, plans subject to change but this looks like what I&#8217;ll be doing.  Looks like it&#8217;s going to be a beautiful day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just now I walked up the Main Street Mall to Jack&#8217;s to buy my morning Mountain Dew and my Sunday paper. As I passed Court Square, there was a group of five bums, obviously already drunk, sitting on the benches near the entrance to the park, hooting and hollering and screaming and carrying on. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/15\/sunday-update-vagrants-my-world-famous-blog-dos-equis-special-lager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday update: Vagrants, my world famous blog, Dos Equis Special Lager&#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\/615"}],"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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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