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MEMernet: Zen-stagram Edition

CREDIT: Dixon Gallery and Gardens/Instagram

MEMernet is a weekly roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.

We thought we’d take a week off from the snark and outright comedy Memphians so often provide on the internet.

Things are are still way weird out there, so let’s just take some deep breaths and soak in the serenity of some of our favorite Instagram posts from the week.

The Gardens

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Mask up, Memphis. 😷

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MEMernet: Zen-stagram Edition


The Rainbow

MEMernet: Zen-stagram Edition (2)

The Birds

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More nest ❤️ from the park

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Don’t you feel better? We do. 

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MEMernet: Super Skyline and Know Where to Throw

Just, wow

Posted to Reddit by u/caustin70

Get in the game

You think your recycle game is tight?

Where do paper coffee cups go? How about bricks? How about that plastic clamshell from your lunchtime salad?

Put your skills to the test with an online Know Where to Throw game at the city’s website, memphistn.recycle.game. There, you can battle your way through five solid-waste sorting challenges. Beat a level and you get a virtual prize, like a virtual slide for your virtual playground.

Let’s try one here. Where does your old toilet go? To collection, recycling, garbage, yard waste, bulky waste outside the cart, or to a household hazardous waste facility? Think you know? Head to the game site and find out.

Complete the challenges and get a printable Know Where to Throw certificate of achievement that’s suitable for framing.

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MEMernet: Lloyd Crawford, Underwear, and Pride Paint

MEMernet is a weekly roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.

Lordy, Lloyd
Does everyone in Shelby County know Lloyd Crawford by now?

If so, they might even know his company, work address, phone number, email address, and some other, uh, observations about him. How? Well, he showed us. By “us” I mean every single person on the entire internet.

On Saturday, Twitter user @edwardnelson4tn was holding a Black Lives Matter poster on a street in Germantown. He said he got stares, a few middle fingers, and some shouts from passing cars. But Lloyd Crawford took it many physical steps further.

Here you go:

MEMernet: Lloyd Crawford, Underwear, and Pride Paint

Lordy, Lloyd.

He was trending on Memphis Twitter over the weekend. By Monday morning, the 36-second video had been seen nearly 528,000 times.

Memphis internet people marveled at Crawford’s bold flash of his business card. Wendi Thomas had the best one.  

Others were concerned, saying showing Crawford’s information was indeed an attempt to “dox” him.

Others noted the Trump sticker on Crawford’s car, his short fingernails, and the, uh, peculiar way he walked off.

WMCTV received a statement from Crawford’s company, Financial Consulting Group, on Sunday. The statement said “the white man protestor” egged Crawford on and some other stuff. But the writing of the statement itself led many to wonder if it is real at all. The Memphis Flyer requested a statement from the company on Crawford (asking whether or not the man would remain with the company) but had not received one as of press time.


Safety Underwear
The city of Memphis urged citizens to treat their face masks like underwear. It’s actually pretty solid advice.

MEMernet: Lloyd Crawford, Underwear, and Pride Paint (4)

Pride Paint
Satisfying on so many levels, Mid-South Pride live-streamed Sunday’s painting of the rainbow crosswalk in Cooper-Young.

MEMernet: Lloyd Crawford, Underwear, and Pride Paint (5)

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MEMernet: Flight, Porch & Parlor, and Getting Tanked at Kroger

MEMernet: Flight, Porch & Parlor, and Getting Tanked at Kroger (4)

Taking Flight
Digital stories spilled out into the streets of Memphis as protesters bullhorned and blocked streets near Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar and Porch & Parlor after a barrage of allegations were made online against the restaurants and their owners.

Facebook posts surfaced last week with allegations that Flight managers had instructed workers to seat African-American diners in an upstairs dining room so they would not be seen from the street in the downstairs dining room. The posts caught fire and soon were blazing on other social channels like Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit.

MEMernet: Flight, Porch & Parlor, and Getting Tanked at Kroger (2)

On Saturday morning, Flight issued a statement on Facebook addressing the posts, saying that “we are committed to determine their validity.”

“We take all allegations of discriminatory behavior seriously and refuse to tolerate this type of behavior at our restaurant. To the extent that we learn that any of these accusations are true, these employees will be terminated immediately.”

Flight and Porch & Parlor are owned by the same company. Criticism and allegations of both were proliferating all over the Memphis internet over the weekend.

MEMernet: Flight, Porch & Parlor, and Getting Tanked at Kroger

Protesters with bullhorns massed outside Flight Saturday evening. On Saturday, protesters taunted diners at Porch & Parlor and blocked the intersection of Cooper and Madison. On Sunday, protesters planned another protest, and a Facebook post noted that “Russ [Graham, co-owner of the restaurants], we want answers and we want them now!”

Back again tonight! from r/memphis

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Getting Tanked
We’re still searching for answers to this very good question posted to Facebook by Johnathan Lifsey from the Germantown Kroger store.

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MEMernet: BLM’s Bail Fund, Antifa, and, Well, Just a Nice Sunset

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MEMernet: BLM’s Bail Fund, Antifa, and, Well, Just a Nice Sunset (5)

You Should See This
All right, this one is not from Memphis (it’s St. Petersburg, Florida, apparently) but it was making the rounds through the Memphis Twitterati Monday morning. Also, you should just see this.

MEMernet: BLM’s Bail Fund, Antifa, and, Well, Just a Nice Sunset (4)

Also, check out deeper coverage of Memphis protests in this week’s digital issue.

Anti-Antifa Before It Was Cool

MEMernet: BLM’s Bail Fund, Antifa, and, Well, Just a Nice Sunset (2)

Tennessee Rep. Mark Green (R- 7th District) tweeted Monday morning that, yeah, he was condemning Antifa way, way, way before President Donald Trump was. What Trump proposes is probably unconstitutional. And he hasn’t actually done it yet, as Green seems to think. Oh, and y’all know Antifa is short for anti-fascists, right?

Just Take a Moment

Nice sunset a few days ago from r/memphis

MEMernet: BLM’s Bail Fund, Antifa, and, Well, Just a Nice Sunset

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MEMernet: A Very Memphis Easter, a New Bar

CREDIT: Jeffrey Seidman/Nextdoor

Lil Christ

Happy Easter from Raleigh Lagrange. from r/memphis

MEMernet: A Very Memphis Easter, a New Bar

Down at the Quarantina
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Mornin’
Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden showed off his morning mane to Instagram followers over the weekend. It was, yes, hair-raising.
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MEMernet: COVID Comments, TP for sale

Hot Comments!

Ooh, boy, things got spicy in the comments last week, this time in the city’s Facebook broadcast of a daily briefing of the Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force.

Celina Engles took the moment to post flu death numbers over the last two years. Well, Sara Ray reminded her those numbers were from an entire year, not just a few weeks, as with the coronavirus.

“I’m so sick of seeing this ‘argument,'” Ray wrote.

Engles countered: “Sara Ray I have facts that prove someone in Texas had the covid-19 [sic] in November.”

Things spiraled hilariously out of control until Engles tried to burn the whole thing down with this scalding missive: “You’re also a sick human being for laughing at the fact that thousands die yearly from the flu.” To which Ray responded, “I was laughing at your calling me an idiot and … ” Well, it went on like that for a while.

Two others sparred briefly (but also hilariously!) in the same comments thread. Joy Brown wrote, “God protect our president n [sic] country from Obama n [sic] his cronies … ” Esbeidi Diaz Stewart retorted, “Wow, why wasn’t it ‘God may protect all of us from this virus.'”

For Connoisseurs

Timothy Thomas, a Nextdoor user in Cooper-Young, offered up a roll of toilet paper for $100,000 this week.

“Its vintage birthday toilet paper,” he explained. “Who’s having a birthday?! Make offer.”

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MEMernet: A Bad Day, Coronavirus Fun, and a Coronavirus Warning

CREDIT: Eric Newsome/Nextdoor


Back to Better Days
Patrick Reilly, owner, chef, and “head fish cleaner” (according to his Facebook bio) at The Majestic Grille found himself looking back to a better time last week.

MEMernet: A Bad Day, Coronavirus Fun, and a Coronavirus Warning

Coronavirus Fun!
Eric Newsome/Nextdoor

Over in Central Gardens, Nextdoor user Eric Newsome shared some coronavirus fun over the weekend.

“We’ve got the big screen out tonight for those out walking — Beauty and the Beast starting about 7:30. Taped the sidewalk to help with distancing. Cowden between McLean and Barksdale.”

Coronavirus Excitement!
Janie Hataway, a Nextdoor user in Cooper-Young posted this message under the heading: “Going out.”

“I’m preparing to take out the garbage. I’m so excited but I don’t know what to wear!”

A Coronavirus Warning!
Christina Massey, another Nextdoor user in Cooper-Young, posted this warning “for people walking down Felix Ave.”

“Between Barksdale and Tanglewood, a man has illegally blocked off the sidewalk in front of his house with caution tape and will verbally assault you if you step over it. He swore at my husband and I, threatened us, tried to bait my husband into a fight, called us ‘disease spreaders,’ and said he hopes we die a slow death. This is impeding pedestrian traffic. Just giving my neighbors a warning in case you go out walking.

P.S. You cannot catch the coronavirus from someone walking down the sidewalk in front of your house.”

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MEMernet: Encouragement, Krogering, and Silver Linings

Encouraged!

“Notes of encouragement captured on my afternoon walk.”

Posted to Instagram by natvangundy.

Krogering

Life’s tough RN and it’s easy to complain. It helps! So that’s just what many were doing on Nextdoor last week, especially about trips to Kroger.

“They don’t have the self-check kiosk open, so you can pay and get out fast!” wrote Roy Haithcock. “You have the pleasure of standing in line with 50 other customers.”

“No disinfectant wipes for the shopping carts,” wrote Mary Kohler. “You could barely get through the aisles. I had to wait 25 minutes to check out.”

Sanctity of Life

Reddit user dropped_the_chief wrote, “To the anti-abortion protesters on Poplar in Midtown: Nothing against y’all or your cause, but please respect the sanctity of life and stop gathering in public until the pandemic is over.”

Silver lining?

Memphis rap icon Project Pat said on Instagram, “Bout to save alotta money wit this RONA.” The accompanying video showed him throwing money at strippers on television.

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MEMernet: Corona-moji, Hoarding King Cobra Tallboys

Emoji time?

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee had just announced a state of emergency. Major sporting events were canceled. In a news-blast, mobile notification about all of it, The Daily Memphian equalled the gravity of the news with what is formally known as (according to emojipedia.org) the “Face with Thermometer” emoji.

Another virus

We don’t like it, but a Memphis video from Fox13 made it around the world over the last two weeks. In it, CNN (aren’t y’all supposed to be like hella busy RN?) said “several people were seen on camera taking some unusual precautions to protect against the COVID-19 outbreak.”

The global response to this viral video was disgusting.

Hoarder

Memphis Reddit user B1gR1g posted that his wife said “I’m really bad at this hoarding thing.” The attached photo showed a case of the user’s signature King Cobra tallboys, some Corky’s barbecue sauce, some dry rub from the Bar-B-Q Shop, and some toilet paper.