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Memphis Trip.

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This past weekend several ladies (Julie, Stacy & Jane) and I headed down to Memphis for MLB’s annual Civil Rights Game between the New York Mets and the Chicago White Sox. Along the way we managed to eat as unhealthy as humanly possible in such a short span. Jane found us a bar that had $1.50 Yuengling (Memphis?), we toured Graceland, Sun Studio, and the Gibson guitar factory, hung out on Beale Street and saw the Mets beat the White Sox.

A successful weekend.

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Because I’m into lists, here are the things to note from my trip:

  • 1 Case of Yuengling was smuggled out of the South.
  • Never laugh in the rain or an overly aggressive homeless man may try to assault you.
  • White people in Memphis DO NOT want you to go to Wild Bill’s, including the kid who was our tour guide at Sun Studio.
  • I prefer Wet Ribs to Dry Ribs and Corky’s to Rendezvous.
  • Elvis impersonators are creepy.
  • Unforgettable Fire is still the worst U2 album ever.
  • State Patrolmen treat women much differently than they treat men.
  • Regardless of what anyone says, there are only 3 ducks at the Peabody Hotel.
  • Sweet Tea might just be the greatest thing ever invented.
  • There are Mets fans in Arkansas.
  • There are no speed limits in Missouri nor Arkansas.

The rest of the photographs from our trip are on Flickr.

Side Note:
I was prompted to do a little research after striking Yuengling Gold in Memphis. Most of you know all to well that you can’t get Yuengling anywhere in Ohio so to find it in Tennessee was a little confusing. I knew there was a brewery in Florida so I assumed it had to come from there. Living in New York City this past year Yuengling was everywhere but since I headed back West in June I haven’t had it. To then find it $1.50 drafts in Memphis was awesome. Possibly the best part of the trip for me.

The beer I brought back to Chicago was brewed in Florida.

Chinese Democracy?

Axl Rose.

This past week Axl Rose nearly killed a school teacher in Roxbury, Conn. Three teenagers who also moonlight as school custodians took to the PA system for a little Welcome to the Jungle. Of course the kids had to work with old material because Chinese Democracy will never see the light of day. There was only one problem: a teacher who’s worst fear is Axl Rose was working late:

State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N’ Roses song over the public address system for a threat.

She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.

Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system.

Police say one of them sang “Welcome to the Jungle” into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics “You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die.”

I’m relativley sure that the teacher didn’t mistake anything. Every Guns N’ Roses song is a direct physical threat.

Look what happened to Kurt Cobain:

I'm Pro-Samurai Sword Control.

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England and Whales plan to ban Samurai swords after nearly 80 Samurai attacks in the past few years, killing at least five people. I guess I was under the false impression that only a Samurai could obtain a Samurai sword? According to Wikipedia:

The katana (Samurai Sword) was typically paired with the wakizashi or shōtō, a similarly made but small sword, both worn by the members of the warrior class.

When did regular bloaks in England start killing mates with Samurai swords? And now with this ban into effect what’s a Ninja to do? I guess it’s back to grappling hooks and smoke bombs.