I heart Bar-B-Que! Seasoned, Grilled Pork Loin

I love my grill.

Being from Memphis, home of the best barbeque ever, I spend all winter thinking of all of the stuff I'm going to throw on the grill as soon as it gets warm enough.  I don't stop grilling until the first snow, which for southerners means February.

Photos at the Memphis Zoo

I was going through some pictures and found these that I shot on one of  our trips to the Memphis Zoo. 

Urbanstylz and Brinson’s Open Mike Night, Thursdays

 I have never been to a poetry reading so I didn't really know what to expect.  Angry Activist poets raging at the government or Beatniks in hemp proclaiming their love for sunflowers, nothing wrong with that, but not really my cup.  What I experienced was very different than I expected.
       First you must know, what I went to was an open mike night at a small hole-in-the-wall called Brinson's. I looked up poetry and open mike night on the web and came up with only a few places.  After checking out the Facebook page, I decided to take a chance on them.  I think I passed the place at least 4 times.  I finally found it tucked in a nook on a dead corner of Madison and Danny Thomas.
      The tiny smoky club was as I expected from the outside: a dim little
dive with a small stage, black, round tables, broken baby grand and a room in the back with a single pool table and a tiny bar.  I’ve been to plenty of these places in my single years.