I have friends who have been going to karaoke night on Saturday night Downtown for the past few months. I’ve objected, stating that karaoke goes against everything Downtown Memphis stands for. As I’ve said many times, I have no problem with the bar where it’s held, or the people who work there; it’s just that karaoke sucks. My friends haven’t listened.<\/p>\n
This afternoon I overheard their plans for tonight. They’re doing karaoke, again. But first they’re meeting at the Fox and Hound. Yes, you heard that right. The Fox and Hound. In Cordova.<\/p>\n
If this isn’t proof that karaoke is the musical equivalent of cancer, I don’t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have friends who have been going to karaoke night on Saturday night Downtown for the past few months. I’ve objected, stating that karaoke goes against everything Downtown Memphis stands for. As I’ve said many times, I have no problem with the bar where it’s held, or the people who work there; it’s just that … Continue reading “The karaoke virus”<\/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\/8978"}],"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=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}