Downtown Memphis Blog

I tried to stay in and avoid the winter weather today, but I had to run to the store for smokes and stuff. I snapped a couple of pics during my voyage.

If I’m still up when the next band of snow comes through, I’ll go up to the roof and get some more pics.

At least kinda. I’ve been staying in being a nerd this weekend because I got a new computer. Naturally I had to take it apart, upgrade everything, do a clean install of the newest OS, and do everything in my power to break it.

(Ignore the red case, I already ordered a clear one, but the guy I bought it from threw in the red one for free. Better than nothing for sure.)

I’ll join the world of the living again this week.

Ahahahaha, so perfect.

I’m not going to rehash the whole fucking stupid issue, because it honestly just makes me want to kick a puppy. In short, raging moron city council member Halbert “Struck down” the idea of a skatepark in the Glenview area:

But Councilwoman Wanda Halbert, who represents the district that includes the park, objected to the project in December, and parks officials told skate-park supporters last week that they would have to find a new location for the facility.

“In a tough economic time for a lot of families … now is not the time to entertain a skate park, especially in a historic neighborhood,” said Halbert in a Dec. 17 e-mail to parks director Cindy Buchanan.

“We must have things such as utility payment assistance programs for the working poor,” said Halbert. “After we have strengthened job and economic power among our constituents, then we need to talk about a skate park.”

Halbert said Wednesday that she was baffled by the commotion over her decision to oppose the skate park.

“Black people feel like when other folks want something, they just do it,” said Halbert. “If you try to buck what they are doing, or don’t understand it, they get mad.”

I sat here for the better part of half an hour trying to figure out exactly how to address a position that’s so stupid it’s nearly incomprehensible. I considered picking her response apart, line by line. I considered a long winded diatribe as to how dumb shit like this is the reason people of every race, creed, and color are clawing their way out of Memphis at any cost. I considered fighting my microwave, as it seemed to make as much sense as what I just read. In the end, I feel my sentiments are best expressed like this:

Go fuck yourself.

Just had a few drinks as it was already pretty late, but it’s a cool place. I’m going to try to get back this weekend to try out their food.

On occasion I get bored and go through the “Memphis” blogrolls on a variety of local sites like thememphisblog, theogeo, scribblescrawl, etc.

Sooner or later I find myself on Steve’s Nude Memphis Blog. I read over it, generally feel a little dumber for my trouble, and move on, but hey, there’s nothing wrong with someone having a differing opinion.

In the course of my random ventures there, however, I’ve noticed an overarching theme. Every single post, as far as I can tell, is about domestic violence, rape, or how woman are persecuting men. At first I wrote it off as venting. I mean, who hasn’t been through a bad breakup and felt a little hostile toward the fairer sex for a bit? I figured it was the male equivalent of “OMGz I am SOOO done with men forever!”.

But it never stops.

Ever.

I was reminded of this recently when my dad was talking about reading random Memphis Blogs, and after mentioning some blogs he enjoyed, said “There’s also a lot of nutjobs, like that nude guy. What’s wrong with THAT guy?”.

I can’t really blame him for coming to that conclusion. Let’s go with the latest post. Who the fuck is in a bar with three female friends and decides it’s a good time to talk about rape statistics? Then there’s defending Roman Polanksi’s rape of a 13 year old as people getting mad about a guy “Fucking a chick who’s too hot for him”. Or the fixation on emasculation seen here. And here. And here.  Or we can look at the fact that he makes a point to highlight any story involving women kicking men in the dick. Like this. And this. And this. And…well, you get the idea, it’s pretty fucking creepy.

I think you get the (insanely repetitive, disturbing) point by now, but no one seems to have ever mentioned it. I’m a heterosexual, twentysomething male, and I just don’t feel this oppression by females. I don’t feel that women are out to get me. While there are certainly differences in the sexes, I don’t feel this animosity he seems to. Am I missing something? Is that blog a parody blog that I’m too dense to have picked up on? Do most men feel this way? Are my father and I in some minority of men that seem to think his perspective is fucking nuts? Am I being trolled?

Yeah, I know I’m late, but check out the Team Coco Stickers at House of Grafix.

I’m not going to go into a long rambling diatribe at this point, as nothing is really certain, and I’m late to the party, so nothing I can say at this point will be very original, but needless to say, Leno is a dick, NBC is run by morons, and Coco is the man. Here’s some links for those who have no idea what I’m talking about:

http://wesupportconan.com/

http://teamcoco.blogspot.com/

http://teamconan.com/

http://imwithcoco.com

I posted a quick blurb about this place a month or so ago, but I ordered again tonight and felt I should do a more in depth review.

I gotta say, this is easily the best pizza in Memphis. Tonight I ordered a Supreme and got it delivered. Supreme consists of pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, peppers, black olives, and sausage. A large came to $19.xx delivered.

The first thing that struck me was how fast delivery was, under 30 minutes from placing the order to it arriving. I dunno if that’s typical, but I certainly can’t complain.

I got the pie and grabbed a slice. It’s immediately obvious that all of the toppings are fresh and hand cut. No uniform size onions out of a giant vat, you can tell they chop their veggies fresh. The crust is also obviously not frozen. As a whole, you get the impression of freshness in pretty much every bite.

Here’s a slice of my supreme.

Spectacular. One of the few places in town that gets the mushrooms right. They’re delicious and juicy without being slimy. If you’re hungry for pizza, you really can’t go wrong here.

Back from Chicago, but their weather seems to have followed me, so I’ve more or less just been sitting at home hiding from the cold.

I was reading the most recent issue of Downtowner and saw an ad for Second Street Shoppers that included a website. Pretty basic, but at least they have hours of operation up and a handful of pictures. I used to go there and attempt to buy them out of Newcastle pretty often when I lived closer. I haven’t been by there in a while since I moved a bit further away, but I’m sure I’ll be back by when the weather warms up. Very nice guys and they carry most of the basics. Their food is pretty damn good too. It’s secondstreetshoppers.com.

with TheoGeo, so I likely won’t be posting. Expect lots of pics when I get back though. In the meantime, I did an editorial on Google’s new phone over at my other site, check it out here.