Disjointure, but all I WANT to tell you about is lunch.

• Yesterday I was looking for a downtown address on Google Maps and remembered (finally) that I wanted to research the story behind "November 6 Street" in Memphis. November 6 is little more than an alley that runs sporadically through downtown, but occasionally when I'm walking downtown I catch the street sign for it and it piques my curiosity for approximately fifteen seconds, and I forget about it until the next time I'm passing one of the street signs. It takes a little level 2 Googling (you have to use quotes) to actually come up with the story behind the street.
  
  The November 6 in question is November 6, 1934--the day that Memphis became the first major city to join the TVA--an event that, at the time, was so significant that they comemmorated it by, you know, renaming a street to something ridiulously esoteric. It was viewed as a victory of the common good over corporate corruption. Also, socialism, in lots of circles. Of course, the current Memphis mayor is in favor of privatizing the utilities that depend on the TVA, paving the way for an Enron-esque fiasco and tripled utility costs, so we've got that to look forward to.


• This morning I found out about Stax Does The Beatles, a collection of mostly instrumental (and ultimately overindulgant) covers that includes a fantastic version of "Day Tripper" by Otis Redding, and an 11:45 (!) long cover of "Something" by Isaac Hayes during his long ass-covers phase (I went ahead and moved the hyphen for you.)


• @rakuette, @tugbucket and I rocked the Blue Monkey trivia last night, resulting in the evening's entertainment costing a mere $5 (which was a healthy tip to the bartender).


• Also last night I played through some more of the demo version of World of Goo. There is much to love


• Lunch today (Thai Kobe beef noodle soup) at Noodle Doodle Do was EXCELLENT. Longer post later with photos &c. so the Twitterbots can pick it up.

Noodle Doodle Dō

Some three weeks ago, a local restauranteuse named Karen Carrier added various noodle dishes to her Dō sushiya, expanded to lunch hours (and extra evening dinners) and branded the venture Noodle Doodle Dō (the link is to a Memphis Flyer article on the restaurant, which doesn't really have its own website). Since Memphis has a dearth of decent pan-Asian noodle shops, I was excited about the chance to try something new from someone who's generally been pretty adventurous with food (her other restaurants in town consistently get positive recommendations, if not rave reviews). Thanksgiving and the general tendency to have things slip my mind kept me from trying it, but when a midtown friend suggested lunch I figured it was high time to give it a try.
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