Memphasis > Can I Get An Amen
April 28th, 2011
GLORY BE.As the Duke divinity graduate rises and throws up a prayer, an entire city rises with him. All know his name, as he was chosen by them in the beginning and then banished to the wilderness. Well, to Houston anyway. Now he returns. Now he holds their hope. A moment later and ten years coming, we are delivered of our distress in high-def, screaming for joy in front of our TVs. Heaven help ...
Memphasis > The Way We Roll
April 21st, 2011
SAME-OLD BRAND-NEW.Five decades ago, my world was self-contained. Within a couple of blocks of my house on Highland, there were, in order of importance: not one but two drug stores with soda fountains, a movie theater, a bakery, a Dairy Queen, a Toddle House, Little Pigs Barbecue, a toy store, a five-and-dime, a record store, a Y – with a pool – the hill at the Waterworks, trains ...
Memphasis > A Shared Journey
April 14th, 2011
TRUE NORTHMy oldest big brother fell recently. He took a header off the basement steps and landed on his hip. He lives in the Adirondacks, 15 miles from any group of anything larger than four, if you don’t count critters. His wife can’t pick him up, and their two labs, well trained as they are, can’t fetch an orthopedist.We were supposed to go fishing in May with my other big ...
Memphasis > Two Ways To Look At It
April 7th, 2011
IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOUR POINT OF VIEWComing from Arkansas, it looks like Oz.It appears suddenly, just past that truck in front of you, between that truck and the one next to you, glimpsed between rearview mirror checks of that truck behind you. You’ve somehow survived the concrete gauntlet of West Memphis and the semi cowboys whipping their rigs into a frenzy, driving them to market across ...
Memphasis > You Get Fries With That
March 31st, 2011
HOT AND FRESH. ALLOVER AGAIN.The deal on Electrolux was handmade, and comes with whatever you want on it and a couple thousand jobs. Mitsubishi is going to fire up transformers bigger than doublewides, heavier than river barges, and they come with $200 million and an extra large order of fries. While we wait for our aerotropolis order with a third highway river bridge on the side, we can crack ...
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