{"id":7802,"date":"2010-09-18T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2010-09-18T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:56:51","slug":"swarm-badge-a-possibility-at-cooper-young-plus-wear-a-tube-top-get-your-pic-on-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/swarm-badge-a-possibility-at-cooper-young-plus-wear-a-tube-top-get-your-pic-on-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm badge a possibility at Cooper-Young? Plus: Wear a tube top, get your pic on the blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ <\/a>Today is one of my favorite days of the year – the annual Cooper-Young Festival.\u00a0 Half a mile of arts, crafts, food and music.\u00a0 It’s centered, of course, at the corner of Cooper and Young, but it’s gotten so huge that it now extends almost all the way up Cooper to Central.\u00a0 If you’ve never been to this, you really need to experience it.<\/p>\n

I was thinking last night… for Foursquare users, this may be an opportunity to get a Swarm badge (for checking in with 50 or more people) without being at an airport.\u00a0 Cooper-Young Fest is popular enough to do it.\u00a0 Remember, Foursquare only keeps you checked in for two hours, so if you plan on hanging out all day (as I do), check back in periodically throughout the day.\u00a0 I’d guesstimate that the best chance at getting the badge will be somewhere between 1 and 4 PM.<\/p>\n

Weather forecast is for a high in the 90s, so it would be a perfect day to wear a tube top.\u00a0 Ladies, if you want your pic on the blog, wear a tube top and come find me.\u00a0 I’ll have on my purple Ques Brothers T-shirt, and will have the camera with me.\u00a0 I plan on getting to the festival by 11, and once I get there, at no point will I stray more than 50 feet from the festival’s boundaries until it ends at 7.<\/p>\n

I’m even getting texted pics of tube tops now.\u00a0 Last night I was hanging out with some friends on Beale, and I got this text from someone at Calhoun’s:<\/p>\n

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Nikki in a tube top.\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 Who knows, maybe if I’m lucky I’ll get enough pics at Cooper-Young that we can do a mini-Tube Top Month for the remainder of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"