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

[fancycwabs]

• 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.

Comments

[ikkarus01.livejournal.com]

The full version of World of Goo is totally worth the purchase. It's a wonderful and beautiful little game.

[piemancer]

Real Kobe beef? And they put it in soup?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I don't know from real Kobe beef, but it was charred a bit on a grill before being added to what was essentially pho kobe beef. Five or six pieces of thin, luxurious melting cow flesh, and the maillard reaction added some complexity to the beef itself and the finished star anise cinnamon fennel broth.

I may go back once a week until I try everything on the menu (which YOU can read on my flickr page, but I can't get to at work). Also on my flickr page, pictures of soup.

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

I approve of this album.

[wyrmofbooks.livejournal.com]

Not that the TVA is completely good on it's own. It needs to rein in the pollution quite a bit. It blows over the mountains and causes acid rain in NC.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

True, but in the midst of the great depression it spurred economic growth--and replacing it with an entity with a pure profit motive probably isn't an ideal solution from an environmental standpoint.

[wyrmofbooks.livejournal.com]

True.