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Bomb Scare at Armstrong International Airport
The Travel Beggar Blog | May 14th 2008 by Eric Gamble
Airport determined safe after Northwest flight searchedby The Times-PicayuneMonday May 12, 2008, 7:55 AMActivity at the Armstrong International Airport has returned back to normal after an early morning bomb scare that caused passengers to be pulled read more
Trees I'v Known, Monoprint, 2
Daily Art ( mas o menos) | May 14th 2008 by drb
Decided to paint this with the same basic color scheme but with different underlying pigments. For this version, used cad red, cad yellow, hookers green, and viridian green. Made the tree a paler, too. read more
Overton Park Twig, 2
Daily Art ( mas o menos) | May 9th 2008 by drb
For this version of the monoprint, I painted the color of the sky a bit lighter. Also I coordinated the colors in the landscape and twig -- rather than just grabbing whatever random pigment happened to have dried on my watercolor palette.Current Rea read more
Graceland photos from the web
Good Brownie | May 9th 2008
I have more pictures of Elvis Presley's home to put up here, but there are lots of pictures of Graceland to be found in the internet. Though there aren't many, I particularly like the photos here. They have a certain artistic edge to them, which is read more
Dumb attack dog: a Memphis adventure
Walking Prescott | May 9th 2008
So The Other Niece from Memphis and I were motoring back toward I40 after a visit to the fresh water pearl facility on the Tennessee River. More about that later. In any event, as we cruised along & I scanned the countryside for photo ops, we pa read more
the grounds of Graceland
Good Brownie | May 9th 2008
Here's another view of the entrance to Graceland. We were some of the last people to take the tour for the day, so fortunately there weren't any tourists around to block the view. As you can see, the shades on the second floor are drawn so no one can read more
Three 6 Satellites
Twankle & Glisten | May 7th 2008 by Slizzard
Broken Halos: Da Compilation Album Disc One, Disc TwoThe first in what one can only hope will be an extensive T&G penetration of the Triple 6 periphery, today’s offering is the homemade Broken Halos compilation. Two discs (virtual or for real) read more
Seeing the world as woodcut
Daily Art ( mas o menos) | May 6th 2008 by drb
I've decided to begin practicing seeing and drawing the world in woodcut forms.Beginning with some weed by the creek, I used charcoal for the black. I wanted to see if there was an alternative to ink, since ink is difficult to carry on hikes. Ink i read more
911 Operator Asleep Follow UP
tazdogz blog | May 5th 2008 by Scott
Tonight I did a little digging around some of the Memphis area news websites just to check on and see if anything else has been updated. Now I have no way of confirming this but one web site (Los Angeles) did mention that the supervisor and the disp read more
Memphis schools defend anti-gay principal
Wheatdogg's world | May 5th 2008
She did nothing wrong when she outed a gay couple to the school community and their parents, according to the Memphis City schools. It was all necessary to maintain school order. Ja, mein commandant! The details are in the local newspaper story here. read more
More Commuterama
Moonbeam McQueen | May 4th 2008 by Moonbeam McQueen
Here are a few of the forty zillion things I’ve been mulling over during this week’s commute: I’m extraordinarily grateful to have a paycheck coming in these days. Woohoo! Amy Winehouse is starting to bear an eerie resemblance End read more
CRUEL EXCUSE (365)
Photomontage (in association with A Poetic Justice) | May 2nd 2008 by thepoetryman
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CRUEL EXCUSE (5-1-08 head-lines)
A Poetic Justice (Don't burn the flag. Wash it!) | May 1st 2008 by thepoetryman
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Memphis Principal Outs Gay Students to School, ParentsWhy don’t we end this now;say goodbyeto cruel excuses of piousness,holier than thou righteousnessbefore whatever will soon befall usbefalls us? In doing sowe’ll read more
Beale Street
Good Brownie | May 1st 2008
I didn't just visit Graceland when I went to Memphis. We also spent an evening on Beale Street, a section of Memphis that's rich with African American history. We ate dinner with some of The Wife's relatives at this funky little blues place. I won't read more
Graceland's kitchen
Good Brownie | May 1st 2008
There is certainly a timeless quality to Graceland, but the most dated room is definitely the kitchen. It really does some that the 1970's pulled open the refrigerator, grabbed some grub, sat down, and just never really left.I was tempted to pick up read more
Memphis principal harasses gay student couple
Wheatdogg's world | April 30th 2008
Hot on the heels of the national Day of Silence, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has notified the Memphis public schools that one of their principals violated the rights of two of her students by revealing publicly they were gay. Daphne Bea read more
Overton Park Twig, Monoprint, 1
Daily Art ( mas o menos) | April 30th 2008 by drb
Stepping out of my truck at the Memphis College of Art in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee, I decided to make a print of the first twig I found on the ground, as it happens, one by the curb.Once again, this was cut directly into the block without a r read more
Commuterama
Moonbeam McQueen | April 28th 2008 by Moonbeam McQueen
I’m spending a great deal of time in my car these days. It’s almost an hour ride to work, and an hour back to the house where I’m staying. On Fridays, I drive an hour-and-a-half back to my “real” home, and on Monday morn read more
Conference USA weekend roundup
The College Baseball Blog | April 28th 2008 by Brian Foley
Going into this weekend the marquee matchup in Conference USA was Houston at Southern Miss as both teams positioned themselves for seeding at the C-USA Tournament and NCAA berths. However, the home-standing Golden Eagles won all three matchups, inclu read more
Toad
Daily Art ( mas o menos) | April 27th 2008 by drb
So far it's been a good year for the toads.Yeah, you blend. read more
Reflections of Memphis
Kittens and Sunshine | April 26th 2008 by Matt O.
Just got back from Memphis Saturday night and I'm pleased to say it did not disappoint. As someone who's studied music history in school, Memphis was a place I knew I needed to go. We toured Sun Studio (where Elvis, Johnny Cash, and others got their read more
Jewlicious Shabbat in Memphis
Jewlicious | April 25th 2008
Join Maitsyahu and Rabbi Yonah at the Beale Street Music Festival on May 2 4, 2008. Beale Street is one of the premier music festivals in the US —The Black Crowes, Santana, My Chemical Romance, Matisyahu, and many others— with three days of musi read more
Drivin' to Memphis
Kittens and Sunshine | April 24th 2008 by Matt O.
The gal and I are headed to Memphis early this morning for a three-day vacation. We're both music fans, so we thought it would be an enjoyable experience. Our itinerary includes visiting Graceland, Sun and Stax Studios and other related bars, museums read more
Hillary's New History Book
End Politics As Usual | April 23rd 2008 by Dpolitico
NEW YORK, April 23, 2008 -- Simon & Schuster, Inc, is proud to announce the release of a new book by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton entitled "Interpreting History." It is a follow-up to her critically acclaimed autobiography, "Living History." "It read more
Morning Wood: World Wide Wes
Brahsome | April 23rd 2008 by Brahsome
William Wesley, a/k/a World Wide Wes, has been called the most powerful man in sports and packs Jay-Z, Lebron and MJ, among others, in his cell phone speed dial. High powered sports agent? Nope, but he’s in tight with all of them too. Prof read more
Fern
Daily Art ( mas o menos) | April 21st 2008 by drb
Sitting among fern, throwing maple seeds in the air to watch them twirl.High over me a hawk makes a movie noise.I've uploaded a series of photos of details from this walk as a flicker set. read more
Shake Rattle & Roll
ScienceJunkies.com - Teaching kids that science can be FUN! | April 20th 2008 by Linda
In the predawn hours of this last Friday Morning (4/18/08) I awoke in confusion. At first I thought I had overloaded the washing machine and imagined that the unbalanced spin cycle was causing the house to vibrate. As I began to shake off sleep I read more
Tyreke Evans Chooses Memphis Live on ESPNU, Video
NESW Sports, The Best Sports News | April 16th 2008 by ethan
Tyreke Evans Chooses Memphis Live on ESPNU, Video. Tyreke Evans, the 2008 McDonalds All American MVP, has decided to go to Memphis. In true diva fashion he made his announcement on ESPNU. There is nothing wrong with that. Do not get me wrong. I even read more
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