All right, let’s see what I’ve starred in my Inbox to blog about.\u00a0 This is going to be an erratic week for “daily update” posts, but I’ll do the best I can.\u00a0 Lots of BBQ Fest pics will go up, starting tomorrow morning.\u00a0 If you’re on dial-up, expect to take my blog about an hour to load.<\/p>\n
The Silly Goose will host a Masquerade for Make-a-Wish Wednesday, May 26 starting at 9 PM.\u00a0 $200 gift certificate to the person with the best mask.\u00a0 DJ BCON will provide the entertainment.<\/p>\n
Nashville was not the only area devastated by floods weekend before last.\u00a0 Our neighbors to the north, Millington, got it just as bad.\u00a0 This Saturday, May 15, the Hard Rock Cafe on Beale will host “Musicians for Millington,” a fund-raiser to provide relief to the city’s residents, with 10 bands performing.\u00a0 Starts at 8:30 PM.<\/p>\n
Here’s a tidbit from young professionals organization Mpact Memphis’<\/a> Voice of Mpact survey:<\/p>\n Top 3 things employers can do to make young Memphis professionals happy:<\/p>\n Here’s a unique event honoring the Memphis in May country of the year:\u00a0 The Madison Hotel will host a Tunisian olive oil tasting Tuesday, May 18.\u00a0 Expert knowledge and explanations of Tunisian olive oil; Mediterranean wines; Mirqaz (Tunisian lamb suasage); Briks (Tunisian tuna and egg stuffed turnovers); calamari and olive salad; falafel with chili sauce; lamb sliders with mint yogurt sauce.\u00a0 333-1224 for reservations.\u00a0 $35++ per person (I assume the ++ refers to tax and gratuity).<\/p>\n Been reading about Tunisia on Wikipedia<\/a> this morning.\u00a0 Damn it sounds like their government kinda sucks.\u00a0 Remind me again why MIM picked this country?\u00a0 I’ve been lobbying for Romania for many years to no avail.<\/p>\n Memphis Groupon<\/a> Deal of the Day:\u00a0 $20 for a one-year individual membership and three guest passes to the National Ornamental Metal Museum, a $55 value.<\/p>\n Damn!\u00a0 I got ousted as the mayor of the Red Rooster on Foursquare.\u00a0 I had the Rooster and Cockadoos for a while; I’d thought about getting Gus’s and Miss Polly’s, in order to have a mayoral lockdown on chicken in Downtown Memphis.<\/p>\n Busy day ahead.\u00a0 The BBQ team met at the Saucer last night to distribute team materials.\u00a0 Our inspirational leader\/father figure said, “We could use some help in the booth tomorrow.\u00a0 All the big items are in place, so there’s no heavy lifting.\u00a0 But there’s lots of little stuff that needs to be done, decorating to make the booth look good.\u00a0 So we need all the help we can get.”\u00a0 Then he said, “And Paul, we need you to hold down the fort at the Saucer until Friends & Family Night opens at 5:30.”\u00a0 At least I think I heard him say that.\u00a0 I was pretty drunk last night so I could be imagining things.\u00a0 Anyway, I’ll be holding down the fort, with a few breaks to go outside and chase bums away, and I may stop by Court Square at 11:45 AM for trivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All right, let’s see what I’ve starred in my Inbox to blog about.\u00a0 This is going to be an erratic week for “daily update” posts, but I’ll do the best I can.\u00a0 Lots of BBQ Fest pics will go up, starting tomorrow morning.\u00a0 If you’re on dial-up, expect to take my blog about an hour … Continue reading “Wed update: Goose masquerade, Millington fundraiser at Hard Rock, Mpact survey, Tunisian olive oil tasting, Metal Museum deal”<\/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\/6672"}],"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=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6673,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n