Boomin 96 – Memphis Flyer

Verbatim

Can somebody direct Susan Lynn, the state representative from Wilson County, to the nearest “Please Go Zone”? Lynn recently proposed legislation to eliminate non-existent “No-go zones” saying, “As you know, when there’s activity happening where people sort of feel intimidated, there’s not exactly a sign up on the wall … it’s just an overall feeling of intimidation.”

Live By Yo Rep

WKIM-FM News Talk 98.9, a local radio station owned by Atlanta-based Cumulus, didn’t go all Tupac and come right out and tell Boomin96 (formerly 96X) that the former throwback alternative radio station only claims to be a player. But last week, News Talk 98.9 underwent a similarly radical makeover to become The Vibe, Memphis’ latest purveyor of classic rap. While the Bluff City probably doesn’t necessarily need two stations specializing in old-school hip-hop, there’s always the possibility of a Three 6 Mafia/Bone Thugs-style rivalry.

Neverending Elvis

Deep Singh is a different kind of superhero. He doesn’t wear a mask or a cape or his underwear on the outside. Nor does he shoot deadly lasers from his eyes or leap tall buildings in a single bound. Singh the Sikh wears aviator sunglasses and a red turban, and he loves nothing more than beating the crap out of the Taliban. Okay, maybe he loves one thing more. Singh’s a huge Elvis fan, and the first issue of Super Sikh, which debuts this month, finds our superhero traveling to Memphis to visit Graceland and do battle with wicked terrorists who want to kill him.

Quoted

Kudos to Thomas Stovall, a clinical professor at UT Memphis and past president of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons, for taking a stand against vaginoplasty in an article originally titled “Stop Futzing With Your Vagina” that was rechristened as “Six Senseless Things We Do With our Vaginas” when it was picked up by Salon.

96X Raps

RIP 96X. Long live Boomin96! Just when you were getting used to hearing that one James song you’d happily forgotten years ago, WIVG-FM’s throwback X-radio format has been changed to a throwback hip-hop format. Thanks to Flinn Broadcasting for continuing to make the drive-time radio experience like a scene from The Walking Dead where one of the main characters runs into the reanimated version of someone they dated back before the zombie apocalypse.

Pun[ishment]

The Fly on the Wall team is sorry to hear that marketing consultant and Memphis Daily News columnist Dan Conway has a nasty cold, and we hope his condition improves (or that somebody stops him) before he pens more articles like his December 5th column that began, “Just when you think your cold is getting better, it snot.” Not “feeling much like writing a column,” Conway had opened his email to discover a list of old puns forwarded to him by a friend that reminded him of other old puns forwarded to him by friends and decided to pass along favorites like, “I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me,” and “I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.”

Time Out

Time magazine recently suggested that not every reader nominating a “Person of the Year” takes the honor seriously. “Over the years, there have been some nominations that are fairly farfetched, surprising, or silly,” we’re told by the news magazine so serious it once singled out “You” for the honor. The list of unserious candidates included cartoon character Li’l Abner, fictional construct The Man in the Moon, and Elvis.