Memphis on the internet.
Famous Memphians
Ryan Hailey — 2020’s Best of the MEMernet winner — dropped a new Memphis classic on his Ryan’s Shorts YouTube channel last week. It names dozens of famous Memphians, all in under two minutes:
“Al Green, B.B. King, Shannen Doherty, Penny, and Lil’ Penny … Drake’s dad, Disco Duck, Howlin’ Wolf, Saliva … Reggie White, Lil Wyte, Herman Cain pizza bites, half of MGMT.”
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Fartlek
World got you down? Jim Eubanks had some ultra-specific advice on Nextdoor: Run a fartlek. It was something about brain chemicals, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, pollution, waste, and alienation. As of press time, the only comment on the post got to the heart of it all: “What’s a fartlek?”
History Mysteries
Historians with the Memphis Public Libraries need your help. They have Memphis photographs for the digital archive but can’t identify the people in them. Have a look at the Dig Memphis Collection and see if you can solve what they call Dig Memphis Mysteries.