Downtown Memphis Blog

Yes, I’m alive

Sig — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:08:49 +0000

Dealing with life. My day job is very busy right now. I haven’t abandoned you.

Exclusive: New Bar in the Works…

Sig — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:33:05 +0000

I don’t know exactly how much I can say right now, but I know for a fact that a new downtown bar will be opening within the next two months, and it will be staffed by people every downtowner knows. I don’t mean like “Oh, isn’t that the guy from down the street’s cousin that I met once?”, I mean “Oh shit, I had no idea this was coming!”. I’ll post more details when I know what I can and can’t post.

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Little Experiment…

Sig — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:51:15 +0000

As I said in a previous post, an old friend of mine recently reopened the discussion board MemphisOfftopic.com. I’m a member of a huge OffTopic forum, so I think the idea of a location specific board is very cool. I’m obviously a fan of blogging, but there’s also something to be said for the diversity on forums, where everyone is more or less equal, as opposed to having a few people who spew their bullshit (like me), and a bunch of people who read it and occasionally comment.

Also, people tend to read blogs that they agree with, so you end up with a bunch of people in a big circle jerk congratulating one another and the peope who disagree simply not coming back. A forum seems to be a good way to bring the cliques to one central, neutral place for the sake of discussion and information sharing (ie – Where can I get a cotton candy goat in frayser at 3am?). Now most members of Dining with Monkeys, for example, are probably young, upwardly mobile families unlikely to know where to find such a demented object. Readers of my blog, however, will immediately know where to procure a cotton candy goat, and even tell you how to score one for free if you have a good aim and an affinity for female homosexuals stricken with gigantism.

My point, or what will pass for a point, is that a forum has it’s place, and blogs have their place. Memphis has quite a few decent blogs, but no message board for the masses. In an effort to remedy this terrible situation, I’m going to start making discussion threads on Memphisofftopic for some of my blog posts. You can still comment here, of course, but the goal is to drive conversation to a forum where everyone is on more or less equal ground. Here’s my first attempt: MoT Thread

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Another day in paradise

Sig — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:57:23 +0000

Hnnnng

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New Crackhead Video

Sig — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:14:47 +0000

My girlfriend and I went to breakfast at blue plate this morning (Which was fantastic, as always), and upon leaving, I realized I’d forgotten a flash drive with data I needed for work, and needed to stop back by my apartment.

Just as I walk into my apartment door, my phone rings. It’s my girlfriend, in the car, saying “Bring the Flip Camera! Hurry!”. I did. I get outside to see one of the handful of legless crackheads passed out on the sidewalk. Being a relatively normal occurance, I was like “Meh, not worth it”.

Luckily, my girlfriend wanted to get some vids, and ran down there with my camera. She caught the following:

Just life as usual in downtown Memphis. A legless crackhead flailing about at 9am on a friday.

Before you call me a terrible person for laughing at this (Which I am, btw), that crackhead was a crackhead before losing his legs, and rather than sue the commercial vehicle company that hit him, he settled for a couple thousand bucks and had a $4k crack party. Regardless, the whole situation is at least as comical as it is sad.

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HUGE traffic jam on I55 northbound.

Sig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:42:02 +0000

I just drove into work, and the northbound lanes of I55 are backed up from the 240 split all the way to the construction at the turn near president’s island/Mallory street. I would avoid it for at least the next few hours if you can.

Screen grab from an iphone traffic app, you can see how far it goes back. DONOTWANT.

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Random pic of window washer

Sig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:29:01 +0000

I pulled my blinds up this morning to see this:

Washing windows at the autozone building. Kinda strange to see, I usually see the typical window washers on the platform, so I thought I would share.

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Haven’t been posting much lately

Sig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:18:40 +0000

But I have been doing some backend stuff I’ve needed to catch up on. I’ve added an iphone theme, so if you visit the site on an iphone or most other mobile devices, you’ll see this:

Working on a few other things too, I’ll get back to daily updates soon.

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memphisofftopic.com

Sig — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:11:26 +0000

An old friend of mine has revived a Memphis general discussion forum. I’ll be regularly having discussions about my blog posts there, and will likely insult everyone within a matter of days. I would highly suggest you register. I have a feeling it will become very popular, very soon.

Nothing makes me feel like an elitist prick like knowing about something first. Follow my link, pricks!

Memphis Off Topic

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Took a short vid of the storm Sunday morning.

Sig — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:46:34 +0000

Why? Because I was awake and bored. Shot with my MinoHD.

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