Well, not quite live. Courtesy of connections that I'm not supposed to name, my college friend and I scored ringside seats for last Saturday's "Border Battle" at the FedEx Forum. While the Forum, being in downtown Memphis, is in fact near two borders (between Tennessee and Arkansas and, a few miles further, the Tennessee-Mississippi border), the border in question was actually the one between Missouri and Arkansas. The two boxers in the main event happened to be from neighboring states.
Unfortunately, being so neighborly, they seemed to not want to hit each other, which I kind of thought was the point of a boxing match? But I am new to the sport, so I just stifled a yawn and concentrated on things that I understand better. Like criticizing the fashion choices of people who attend boxing matches, including the ring girls.
I did learn enough about boxing to know that the final undercard fight, between Edison Miranda and Kelly Pavlick, was damned good. Unlike the main event, which prompted one spectator to yell, "Just kiss him already if you ain't gonna hit him!", by the end of the Miranda-Pavlick fight you really wanted them to stop hitting each other.
The whole day on Saturday started with a bizarre chain of events that was made even more bizarre by some stuff that I found out yesterday. A little Google can be a dangerous thing. Can't say too much, because I'm sure I'm supposed to be protecting the possibly not innocent. But the whole thing is highly amusing, at least to me, and if I ever write that tell-all book, it will be the best chapter, I promise.
Between the bizarre and the boxing, my college friend and I took an excursion to Graceland, armed with her mother's shopping list of desired Elvis souvenirs. We emerged a few hours later with a Corolla-trunkful of refrigerator magnets, keychains, t-shirts, a purple fleece blanket, and, my personal favorite: my friend's picture with Elvis. A little Photoshop can be a wonderful money-making scheme. If I can get my hands on a copy of the picture, I'll post it here later.
In other news, you can add a turtle and a giant grasshopper to the running wildlife tally. Still no lot.
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