Sometimes, Memphis and I get along like an abusive lover and a masochist. This city will kick you when you’re down and then help you up and wipe the blood and spit off your chin. You have to question your sanity when you end up defending the city to everyone you know when they put it down, even when you know Memphis can be really bad for you. You think about leaving it, but you…
There are nights when you’ll come outside and Memphis will smell like the inside of a greasy Frency-fry bag, left clumped up at the foot of a chainlink fence through a rainstorm and then several days of punishing sun. And then there are nights when you’ll come outside and smell nothing but fresh bread from the Wonder Bread factory. After a French-fry-bag weekend, tonight was a Wonder Bread night.
An audio slideshow about Midtown Memphis that I did for The Bryant Park Project’s “Where I Live Now” series on NPR.
[for Tuesday, Dec. 12] The Deli may have slow service, but at least they support the fiveheads of the world. Project 365
Do they send servers at the Deli to some kind of training where they learn how to ignore their patrons for as long as humanly possible?
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