Tag: MEMernet

MEMernet: PILOTs and Taxes, Nice

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date July 3, 2024

(Posted to Instagram by Memphis City Council)

PILOTs and Taxes

Many Memphians reacted to the Memphis City Council’s recent hikes on taxes and fees with one question: Why are residents getting charged more while we hand out tax cuts to businesses all the time? Daniel Duckworth took this question to Nextdoor.

“Shelby County raised the wheel tax in hopes of bringing in $17 million,” he wrote. “In the meantime, businesses got $41 million in tax breaks in the county. We’re giving large businesses and corporations welfare and guaranteed income.”

Jay Limbaugh said, “The Memphis market is not as attractive as Nashville or Knoxville. We have to bribe companies to come and invest. Simple.”

Some suggested we have to use corporate handouts because our labor pool sucks. Other neighbors wondered if the city could save money with a consolidated government, like Nashville. One just wanted her yard waste picked up on time.

Nice

Amid the death and destruction you’ll find if you ever search YouTube for “Memphis,” you also occasionally find just some really nice love letters to the city from outsiders. Travel vloggers Adam and Madalyn visited recently; ate barbecue at Cozy Corner, Central BBQ, and The Bar-B-Q Shop; and wandered around Bass Pro and Beale Street. If you need a refresh on the city, check it out.

Tags Adam and Madalyn, corporate handouts, MEMernet, Memphis, tax hikes, taxes

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MEMernet: Strangers in the Dark and ‘Drinking Holes’

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date June 26, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

Nighttime Visitor

West Overton Crossing neighbor John G. said he heard a loud knock on his door one night last week. His Ring camera showed nothing. So he peeked outside but saw no one.

“I had this weird feeling like someone was watching me from across the street so I snapped a photo [above],” he said.

A tech-savvy Nextdoor user Bobby Anderson downloaded the photo, adjusted the image settings, and revealed this:

In the adjusted image, you can just make out the figure of a person who seems to be in all black standing on the porch across the street. John G. had not posted an update on the situation as of press time. So it remains just … creepy.

“Drinking Holes”

UK tourist and bar enthusiast Ryan Hutchinson posted on Facebook last week that “Alex’s Tavern and Earnestine and Hazel’s in Memphis, TN delivered the goods. Unpretentious, real drinking holes.”

Tags Alex's Tavern, creepy, Earnestine and Hazel's, MEMernet, paranormal

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MEMernet: Mid, Krogering, and Big Boogie

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date June 19, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

Mid

Krogering

Memphis Reddit users tried to figure out exactly why Kroger seems to only use half of its self-checkout machines, leaving long lines snaking down the aisles. The company wants to pay fewer employees, one said. The move deters shoplifting, said another. Cash-using customers will use a card-only machine and create a headache, one suggested. Many agreed, though, that they hate self-checkout.

Big Boogie

Former Memphis rapper Big Boogie gave an expansive interview on the No Jumper podcast. He talked about why he doesn’t beef or pose with his car, why he left Memphis, and his philosophy on hard work.

“Life ain’t whopping my ass,” he said. “I’m whopping life’s ass.”

Tags Big Boogie, Krogering, MEMernet, Memphis

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MEMernet: Musk’s ManeFrame Moves MEMernet

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date June 12, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

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Elon meet Elvis. Elvis meet Elon. @elonmusk @xai

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ManeFrame

The Memphis subreddit buzzed with the Elon news. Opinions were mixed.

User u/ThiccAssCrackHead said, “It means he will be using 1 million gallons of aquifer water per day while only employing 25-45 people that are brought in from out of state. Ask Atlanta how theirs is going.”

U/Delway said, “It’s a start. It will hopefully attract other tech companies with high paying jobs. … fiber optic network infrastructure will be sped up. High paying Jobs to retrofit the facility. Inspire our local youth.”

But one suggestion seems like something we can all agree on. Reddit user u/mylogicistoomuchforu said, “Elon Musk is building a supercomputer in Memphis. We got to call it the ManeFrame.”

Tags Elon Musk, ManeFrame, MEMernet, xai

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MEMernet: RPS Challenge, MLGW, and Southern Roll

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date June 5, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

RPS Challenge

Jaslyn Banks and her family got adorably into the rock, paper, scissors challenge on Nextdoor.

MLGW

Head over to Memphis Light, Gas & Water’s (MLGW) Facebook page for a ton of news you can use. There you’ll find the newest water quality report, which is aces once again. The Memphis Sands Aquifer, it says, “contains more than 100 trillion gallons of rainwater that some experts believe fell more than 2,000 years ago.” Whoa.

The utility also wants to hire you, buy stuff from you or your business, and let you use a new mobile app to make appointments for in-office visits. Also, a new survey asks how you get (and want to get) information from MLGW.

Southern Roll

SkateLyfe TV posted a new video last week from May’s Southern Roll Memphis 2024. The 8th annual epic skate party brought some of the best on wheels to the city. SkateLyfe’s video makes the rolling, dancing, grooving, and showing out all look effortless and fluid. It’s worth a watch.

Tags MEMernet, MLGW, SkateLyfe TV

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MEMernet: Memphis in May, SmokeSlam, and News You Can Use

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date May 22, 2024

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Memphis in May

The Shed BBQ from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, took home top honors at Memphis in May’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest last weekend. Teams also took wins in contests away from the smokers, like Miss Piggy Idol and barbecue sauce wrestling matches (above).

SmokeSlam

Smokemasters BBQ took SmokeSlam’s top prize during its inaugural contest. Music, fireworks, a Ferris wheel, and more entertained the crowds at Tom Lee Park, like rapper Tone Loc (above).

News You Can Use

Kontji Anthony wants to help you find a job. Among the many resources you’ll find at her website, kontji.com, is a massive list of Memphis-area jobs updated each week. The current list includes an airport shuttle driver, lawn care specialist, a tour guide, stylist, lots of jobs at Bass Pro and Graceland, and tons more. Let’s get to work, y’all!

Tags Kontji Anthony, MEMernet, Memphis, Memphis In May, SmokeSlam, World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest

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MEMernet: RiverBeat, Drama, and a Beer Prediction

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date May 8, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

RiverBeat

The inaugural RiverBeat Music Festival drew throngs to the Mississippi last weekend. Most on the MEMernet agreed Tom Lee Park was amazing and the production value was second-to-none.

But being Memphis and that park in particular, detractors complained the crowd was smaller than Memphis in May’s Beale Street Music Festival and that hurt Downtown businesses. Others griped that ticket prices didn’t match the lineup.

Drama

If you are looking for a local drama rabbit hole to fall into, head over to the Memphis subreddit and look for “Fox and Cat Vintage drama.” The basic story is there to get you started. Then, follow the links to fall as far as you’d like. Yowza.

Beer Prediction

“Only a matter of time before someone turns Germantown Lumber into a brewery/tap room,” u/etherian1 predicted on Reddit.

It’s a fitting prophecy for our beer-soaked issue, focused on the winners of our 2024 Beer Bracket Challenge.

“First round on me for whoever can will this into existence,” wrote u/HeyYouGuuys.

Agreed. Second round on us.

Tags beer, Fox and Cat, Fox and Cat Vintage drama, Germantown Lumber, MEMernet, RiverBeat

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MEMernet: Honor?, Culture, and Never-ending Elvis

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date May 1, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

Honor?

State House Majority Leader Rep. William Lamberth celebrated the end of this year’s legislative session with the above photo. (Sine die is Latin for, basically, the end of a meeting with no scheduled return date.)

“It has been and continues to be a phenomenal honor to serve you,” he tweeted.

Most of the comments were not kind. “Pig,” wrote one. “You know no honor,” tweeted another. “You served no one but dark money and big business,” another commented.

Culture

“The European mind cannot comprehend how much history and culture is just in Memphis,” tweeted Mr. Sound Dobad.

Never-ending Elvis

This image has been floating around the MEMernet recently. The story is that in 1949 a woman was dropping off film to be developed and had one frame left on her roll. She saw a boy on the sidewalk, asked him to pose with his bike, and took his picture. That boy was … Elvis (mind-blown emoji here).

Tags Elvis, MEMernet, William Lamberth

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MEMernet: Memphis Masters, Go Glo, and Who to Follow

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date April 10, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

Memphis Masters

The University of Memphis football team got into Masters Week with a little golf on the turf.

Go Glo

GloRilla is everywhere. She was recently seen at the White House with President Joe Biden. Last weekend she was on the red carpet for the CMT Music Awards.

“GET ’EM GLO!” CMT tweeted.

Who to Follow

Heybert Flexworthy is a Memphis comedian and musician. A video posted to Instagram last week had the city’s number with lines about high MLGW bills, never going to Graceland, potholes, slang, Dixie Queen, and how the city turned Ja Morant into “a thug.”

Tags CMT Music Awards, football, GloRilla, Heybert Flexworthy, MEMernet, Memphis Masters, University of Memphis

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MEMernet: Paint, Dean Strickland, Tourney Time

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date April 3, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

Paint

“The paint is coming off!!” wrote u/CUrlymafurly on Reddit last week. Some MEMernet citizens cringe at painted brick in general. But this paint job hit a note for many more.

The mansion was once the stately Nineteenth Century Club. It was being painted in preparation for the new Tekila Modern Mexican restaurant. But owners made an agreement with preservationists and the paint is now being removed.

Dean Strickland

“Jim Strickland, the 64th mayor of the city of Memphis, was announced today as the next dean of Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law,” the University of Memphis tweeted last week.

Tourney Time

Jaylin James, a content creator with Bleacher Report, had fun at the NCAA tournament here last month. He hit Beale, ate Central BBQ, shared some popcorn with a basketball fan, experienced his first buzzer beater, and captured it all in a fun TikTok video.

Tags Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Jaylin James, Jim Strickland, MEMernet, NCAA, Nineteenth Century Club, Tekila Modern Mexican