Interesting fact I discovered while surfing Wikipedia: Cheeta, the chimpanzee from the 1930s Tarzan movies, is still alive! He’s 76 years old and is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living non-human primate.
See? Read this blog and you learn interesting stuff. I bet Pete the Trivia Guy uses that for an upcoming trivia question. Tuesday night one of the questions was, “What city was the 1970s sitcom Good Times set in?” I knew the answer immediatly (Chicago) because I’m a huge Good Times fan. When I was a kid J.J. was my hero. DYN-O-MITE!!!!
There was also a question about FedEx: “What color is the “Ex” in the FedEx Ground logo?” And would you believe Pete asked it on a week when NONE of our teammates who work at FedEx were there! Normally we have at least three. We got the answer anyway though (green).
Found out that one of the people who runs Thursday night trivia at TJ Mulligan’s reads my blog. She’s the one who sent me this message through Air Traffic Mike:
One of these Thursdays I’ll have to wander up to Mulligan’s and meet her in person and play some trivia. I’ve heard good things about that night at TJ’s. Does Frenchie work on Thursdays?
Apparently a lot of Memphians who are on Facebook have been receiving add friend requests from none other than Willie Herenton. Or someone claiming to be Willie Herenton. Someone commented to me that since Willie is looking for friends, maybe he could be my new BFF, since I’m now in the market for one. Wouldn’t that be awesome? We could sit up late at night and Willie could tell me all about his baby mamas and his backroom deals. Fun fun! I’ll wait for him to contact me and request to be my BFF though. When you reach a certain level, you don’t have to seek BFFs out, they seek you out.
Congrats to my friend Harmony Stewart, who took third place in ArtsMemphis’ film contest. I’ve mentioned her film and linked to it a couple of times from the blog. Glad she made it into the prize money.
There was a kidnapping and carjacking on Mud Island last night at the Riverset Apartments. Details can be found here and also here. Kinda sucks to hear that terrifying crime has found its way onto the Island.
That’s all for now… Circa post still to come.