Shannon Yarbrough

author, poet, and painter

Maybe It Was Memphis February 28, 2008

Here’s a cool website called The Haunted Bluffs of Memphis.  It inspired the short story I mentioned that I was writing last week.  I’m in search of a cool Southern fiction lit mag or zine to submit it too now.  Know any?  Check out the site for the spooky pics alone.

Bravo to Steve Cox for putting it together!

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Dinner in the Sky February 28, 2008

Mama’s in the sky with Elvis….

And now you can be too if you have eleven thousand dollars.

Here’s a dining concept that’ll make your head — if not your stomach — spin: It’s dinner at a table suspended 165 feet in the air with chairs that swivel 180 degrees.

Dubbed Dinner in the Sky, the attraction is making its U.S. debut Monday in Orlando at the annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions convention. About 25,000 attendees are expected at the one-stop-shopping event, where the amusement industry rolls out new thrill rides and related products.

The high-flying dining venue was introduced in Europe last year and consists of a platform suspended from a crane. Guests are harnessed into 22 seats, with space in the center for a chef and two helpers. With local officials’ blessings, the platform can be transported to just about anywhere the crane can maneuver. One recent spot: in front of the Amiens Cathedral in France, with dinner prepared by a three-star Michelin chef.

Check it out! 

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I can’t say I’d do it.  But I would have a martini over at the piano!