{"id":285,"date":"2009-02-21T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T19:28:06","slug":"the-third-degree-at-beale-st-then-karaoke-at-the-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/02\/21\/the-third-degree-at-beale-st-then-karaoke-at-the-boulevard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Degree at Beale St., then Karaoke at The Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Ali's friends was having a combination birthday and engagement celebration. We met them at The Beale Street Cafe<\/a><\/strong> (689 South Ave.<\/a>) as Ali's friend's neighbor's uncle [or something]<\/em> was in the band, Third Degree<\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a>. We had a few drinks there and a good time. The band did a fine job with the classics and standards … sometimes encroaching on exceptional, in fact.<\/p>\n

Afterward, we all went out to ruin music in our own way: karaoke. The first suggestion on the table was The Boulevard Restaurant<\/strong> (412 Empire Blvd.<\/a>) I looked to see if the much-closer Elixir<\/strong> (938 South Clinton Ave.<\/a>) still had karaoke on Saturday nights but to no avail in the local papers present at the bar. So it was off Empire. I managed to sing The Turtles' \"Happy Together\" without much trouble but I also gave Jimmy Buffet's \"Come Monday\" a go as well. Alas, despite having self-administered the right amount of public singing fluid, the song still didn't sound good to me. I decided that it was in fact a difficult song to sing. Others fared better, including Ali, and particularly this guy who was in our group who broke karaoke: halfway through his song, the computer conked-out and had to be rebooted.<\/p>\n

We were very happy to have a generous fiancée who played a staunch designated driver role. He brought us back to the city and we had planned to go to Mark's Texas Hots<\/strong> (487 Monroe Ave.<\/a>) but Ali observed he wasn't excited about it so made some excuse about the person lying in the sidewalk with the paramedics around them being a reason to not go. Ali and I, however, walked from her house there.<\/p>\n

We got in around 3 and double-dated with a couple guys we met in line to share a table as there was — of course — a line, and it was — of course — cold. I corrected my prior attempt at the perfect plate and came pretty close: macaroni salad and fries topped with meat sauce and over-easy eggs — this time skipping the onions. Much better than my last attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Ali's friends was having a combination birthday and engagement celebration. We met them at The Beale Street Cafe (689 South Ave.) as Ali's friend's neighbor's uncle [or something] was in the band, Third Degree. We had a few … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,50,611,22],"tags":[58,873,253,986,985,984,983,987,988,982,981],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-food","category-for-the-parents","category-music","tag-ali","tag-beale-street","tag-birthday","tag-elixir","tag-engaged","tag-engagement","tag-karaoke","tag-marks","tag-plate","tag-the-boulevard","tag-third-degree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}