Memphis Black Restaurant Week

Hey it's Memphis Black Restaurant Week! Participating restaurants are listed below. Be sure to go out and support your neighbors.

The week culminates in Soulful Food Truck Sunday at Clayborn Temple. Follow on Facebook for more information!

• The HM Dessert Lounge, 1586 Madison
• DeJavu Restaurant, 51 S. Main
• Scoops Parlor, 106 E. G. E. Patterson
• The Office@Uptown, 594 N. Second
• The Choo, 3045 Southern 
• Cafe 7/24, 94 S. Front
• Sweet Potato Baby, 1005 Tillman
• Perignons Restaurant & Lounge, 2818 Coleman Road
• Two Vegan Sistas, 6343 Summer, Suite 110
• Underground Cafe, 2299 Young
• Best Friends Grille,  823 Exocet Drive in Cordova
• Guilt Free Pastries, 344 S. Main
• Cupcake Cutie Etc., 109 S. Court St.
• Phillip Ashley Chocolates, 798 Cooper

A list of things the president got wrong on Twitter this week

From the Washington Post

Where to get real news

This Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/berlinschoolofcreativeleadership/2017/02/01/10-journalism-brands-where-you-will-find-real-facts-rather-than-alternative-facts/#6f84532d29c1) lists 10 reputable publications/outlets where you can get real news, not "fake news":

• The New York Times

• The Wall Street Journal

• The Washington Post

• BBC

• The Economist

• The New Yorker

• Wire Services: The Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg News

• Foreign Affairs (bi-monthly magazine)

• The Atlantic

• Politico

Organizations to support

These are just a few of the organizations we can support to help continue the fight against racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia... oh there's a list for you! I've seen these recommended on social media and have donated to some myself. Please let me know if you have suggestions to add!

Trans Assistance Project
Planned Parenthood (PPGMR for locals)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Black Lives Matter
National Organization for Women
National Immigration Law Center
International Refugee Assistance Project
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
Council on American-Islamic Relations
NARAL Pro-Choice America

Supporting local immigrant-owned businesses *updated*

I can't say for sure that these are all immigrant-owned, but I feel pretty confident about this list. Though I'm trying not to eat out so much lately, I'll be eating lunch at these places over the next couple of weeks:

• The Little Tea Shop, 69 Monroe Ave
• Cafe Med, 1817 Kirby Parkway
• Casablanca, 5030 Poplar Ave and 1707 Madison Ave
• Zam Zam's, 7706 Winchester Rd
• Ali Baba Mediterranean Grill, 5800 Raleigh Lagrange Bartlett (This one is new to me.)
• Jerusalem Market, 4794 Summer Ave
• Al-Rayan, 288 N. Cleveland St
• (with treats from) The Peanut Shoppe, 24 S. Main St

Thanks to everyone for sharing more ideas!

• India Palace, 1720 Poplar Ave
• Saffron Indian Restaurant, 3810 Hacks Cross Rd
• Mayuri Indian Cuisine, 6524 Quince Rd
• Golden India Resaurant, 2097 Madison Ave
• Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana, 1215 S Germantown Rd
• Ethiopian Restaurant and Coffee, 8195 Dexter Rd
• Queen of Sheba, 4792 Summer Ave
• Cedars Restaurant, 694 N Germantown Pkwy
• Habesha Ethiopian Restaurant, 6195 Macon Rd
• Abyssinia Ethiopian Restaurant, 2600 Poplar Ave
• Arepas Deliciosas, 3698 Summer Ave
• Blue Nile, 1788 Madison Ave
• Sabor Caribe, 662 Madison Ave
• New Orleans Seafood Market, 942 EH Crump Blvd (former owners of Saigon Le)
• Phuong Long, 306 N Cleveland St
• Tacos Los Jarochos, 4900 Summer Ave
• Casbah Restaurant, 1890 N Germantown Pkwy
• Tycoon Asian Noodle Shop, 3307 Kirby Parkway

What else can we add to this list?

Who to vote out in 2018

Someone put together this very useful list of US Senators' responses to the Muslim ban.

Everything this president has done so far has been a threat to people of color.

When we said he was too racist to be president we meant it.

• Signed executive order to build a wall at the US-Mexican border
• Signed executive order to temporarily ban citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries and ban all refugees from entering the US; also indefinitely bans all Syrian refugees and establishes a RELIGIOUS TEST (outraged all-caps my own) for refugees, prioritizing Christians
• Reversed the Obama administrations's decision to halt the building Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines 
• Reinstated the Global Gag Rule
• Says "voter fraud" will be investigated
• Ordered a weekly list of crimes (allegedly) committed by undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities
• Appointed Steve "Brietbart" Bannon as his chief White House strategist
• Appointed Michael "fear of Muslims is rational" Flynn as national security adviser
• Appointed Ben "efforts to enforce the Fair Housing Act are communist" Carson as secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Jeff Sessions

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listed mapped numbered organized sorted stacked

Listwork has...

1. moved
2. expanded
3. improved?

New site listed mapped numbered organized sorted stacked at http://elizabethalley.tumblr.com/

All of My Paintings

... that are available and that I still like. There are 66 of them, and the four that I'm holding for people aren't on the list (that's 70). These are all in my house. They are not the only paintings in my house.

Daydreamland
No Cure for Memory
I moved home to save money the three months of patrol school
Nobody gets me anymore
It's okay though #1
It's okay though #2
I don't let these things tyrannize me
I might be in love with that woman
The only thing I have control of here is what I'm wearing
I have someone telling me I'm great every day, for life
Cupcakes
Punch
Party
I Remember You
Purple Shoes
Gift List
Petits Fours and Presents
Tables for Ladies
Clock
Calgary Tower: Stormy Day
Breakfast with Sam
Giant Pocky
24 Hour Pancakes
Next
Flower's Kiss 1
Center
Flower's Kiss 2 (Pink)
Watertowers 1 (red building)
Watertowers 2 (grey building)
Watertowers 3 (windows)
Watertowers 4 (green tank)
Spring Wedding
Condos
Coletta's
Flag
Kitchen
Phone
Far Low
Village
Parole
Watertower
Cathedral
Yankee Stadium
Little Italy
weekday special
Jenny Jet-O-Matic
Park-N-Shop, #2
All Skate
Tunes
Le Tour Eiffel
Restaurant du Tibet
Le Lustre
Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre
Extraordinary Machine 1
Extraordinary Machine 2
Centre
La Histoire
Le Penseur
La Porte
De Verre at de Pierre
Moulin a Vent
Extraordinary Machine 3
Million Dollar Band
We Are Super, We Are Great
Teacher's Pet
Sunday's Best

Uniformity

Here's a funny one for the first day of summer for most of the kids in Memphis - my friend Heather sings the praises of school uniforms:

Why I Love Uniforms:

1. Easy to shop for
2. They tear up school clothes anyway
3. No arguments about what to wear that day
4. My child doesn't have to worry about who is wearing the latest cool fashion and can concentrate on learning 

Editors Notes: The child in question just finished first grade, so the "latest cool fashion" part makes me giggle :)

Six-Year Old's To-Do List

Maybe the best list ever.

Giving an Off-the-Cuff Talk

Here's a list of things I wrote down to help me remember the spontaneous talk I gave at the Dixon a few weeks ago as part of the Present Tense exhibit, which features my tiny paintings.

• tiny outfits
• keeping a sketchbook
• going-out sketchbook
• cruise story
• Sketchwork
• Urban Sketchers
• Portland
• my people
• memUSk
• board, Barcelona
• Santo Domingo
• no assholes
• immediacy
• practice
• personal
• serious & constant
• teaching
• threshold
• New Orleans
• 1 1/2 drinks
• during the night
• lesson
• nervous
• not that bad

This is the last weekend of the show! I'll be in the galleries with a bunch of the other artists and we'll all be talking about our work. I can't find information about it on the website, but it's at 2:00 PM this Sunday, April 14. Hope to see you there!

Three-Year Old's To-Do List

Skateboard. Basketball. Pirates. Bikes. Swings.

Best New Year's Eve Ever

My friends and I tend toward hyperbole when we get together. Here are some of the best things from our New Year's Eve. Best. Things. Ever.

• This is the best toffee ever!
• Purple Rain is the greatest song ever recorded!
• Quincy Jones is the most influential person in music!
• Miles Davis's autobiography was the best book ever!
• Templeton Rye is the best whiskey ever!
• In Your Eyes is the greatest song of all time!
• He's the best person she's every been married to!

Thoughts on Belle & Sebastian: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Listen to Belle & Sebastian's version of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

1. This is the first time I've ever actually wanted to listen to O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.
2. Not even Belle & Sebastian could make it into something I enjoy listening to.
3. Until the female singer started - who knew this song could be so creepy!
4. I'm a sucker for a melodica.

The Only 3 Appropriate Subjects for a Painting, per Jack Donaghy

1. The horse
2. Ships with sails
3. Men holding up swords while staring off into the distance

Guestlist: Interviews

People I Have Interviewed for an Upcoming Article, by Richard Alley

1. Mike
2. Mike
3. Michael
4. Mike

Found in my Purse

1. a spoon
2. unused labels from my show
3. expired coupon

Orange Things on the Table Beside Me

1. Plastic cup half full of water
2. Tiny sewing scissors
3. Big bowl previously full of popcorn

Proof That I Have a Pen Habit