Memphasis > Jud Strunk Made Me Cry
June 14th, 2012
A DAISY A DAY. “He remembers the first time he met her, He remembers the first thing she said, He remembers the first time he held her, And the night that she came to his bed.” Jud Strunk made me cry. Although that’s a great name for a bully, Jud and I never faced off behind the gym, never stepped across a line drawn in playground dust. But lines ...
Memphasis > High Notes
June 7th, 2012
THE MEMPHIS SOUND HAS A NEW GIG. Memphis has had plenty of superstars, but the beat behind them and underneath and around them, the bass they stood on, the lead they followed, the brass that announced them and made them royalty – that beat was a superstar all by itself. And, just recently, that beat lost a few beats. Andrew Love is missing, and he took a sax ...
Memphasis > 59 For Danny
May 31st, 2012
WHAT THESE GUYS DO ISN’T PROFESSIONAL.IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. The other day, I played in a golf scramble – a format where four players hit every shot, pick the best, and turn in one score at the end. And we had two mulligans each (do-overs) and a toss (a throw yourself out of trouble when you’ve just hit a shot so nauseating you want to toss). We played ...
Memphasis > This Doesn’t Fly
May 24th, 2012
NOTE TO DELTA AND THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY:IT’S NOT YOUR AIRPORT. Tom Jones has suggested that Delta is doing to us what hard-core protagonist Debbie did to Dallas. This time around, Delta is the only one deriving any pleasure out of the act and charging us two, three, even four times the going rate for the experience. Tom is a communications ...
Memphasis > It Wasn’t Like This
May 17th, 2012
AROUND HERE, 24 HOURS AREN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE. A day in Memphis wasn’t like this. When Andy Jackson stood on the Chickasaw Bluffs and said to Winchester and Overton, “Boys, we can sell some lots here,” it wasn’t like this. When Memphis made its name as a boisterous, bawdy river town serving a thick, brown, steaming stew of muddy ...
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