Memphasis > In A Word
March 8th, 2012
A WORD ABOUT MEMPHIS. THREE, IN FACT. I’m paraphrasing a bit, but this was the gist of what they were asked: What matters most to our city’s future? What do we promote to bring your friends here? What do we creatively energize to become a talent magnet? The Daily News is kind enough to give me 500 words each week to rattle on about the this and ...
Memphasis > A New View
March 1st, 2012
A NEW WAY OF SEEING THINGS. New Orleans is the city that throws the country’s biggest party about this time of year, putting on the biggest show in return for a few colorful beads and trinkets since the Indians gave away Manhattan. It is also the city so much larger than life that Katrina couldn’t drown it, the subsequent loss of virtually every support ...
Memphasis > God's Sausage
February 23rd, 2012
GOD’S SAUSAGE. “You might just be a copywriter,” Brick Muller said, staring down at the piece of paper I’d just handed him. On it was an ad idea I’d just pounded out on the 1948 Royal typewriter he was paying me to use as a copywriter. The fact that this was his first recognition that I might be one was gratifying since I’d already been ...
Memphasis > Mind Over Matter
February 16th, 2012
THAT’S ENOUGH. Growing up, whenever I was doing something, saying something, or up to something for a period of time deemed sufficient by my father, he would say, “That’s enough.” Depending on how he said it, whether or not he was smiling, or, God forbid, he’d said it twice, I could determine if it was enough that ...
Memphasis > New County Of Them
February 9th, 2012
NEW BILL CREATES EIGHT NEW COUNTIES. Continually annoyed about existing law that gets in his way, Tennessee Representative Curry Todd of Collierville has introduced a bill in the state house eliminating Memphis and Shelby County and creating eight new counties. Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris immediately agreed to sponsor the bill in the senate and gave everybody 30 ...
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