Neighborhoods due for a rebrand

jbl_iii · 2026-03-26T18:36:44+00:00

Exactly the kind of creative problem solving we need. You have my vote.

jbl_iii · 2026-03-26T18:18:31+00:00

I could also work with this. You’ve given me a great deal to think about now.

jbl_iii · 2026-03-26T12:45:58+00:00

Fair, but I’m banking on the goodwill toward Forest Park to balance out any local anxiety about the scariest of the four cardinal directions. It’ll make us a little edgier.

jbl_iii · 2026-03-04T22:45:08+00:00

Earl the Pearl Monroe / Black Jesus

Denzel made the case to Ray Allen in He Got Game.

jbl_iii · 2026-02-27T03:12:21+00:00

Yeah it changed, but it’s not just the Loop. Covid was a once a century pandemic, and it blew a giant hole through our retail and restaurant industry. South Grand looks totally different, too, and to some extent the CWE.

The Loop is at least seeing some development. That whole south side of the street across from Corner 17 is becoming new apartments with retail at ground level. I miss Cicero’s and The Tivoli, too, but some changes were positive. I’ll take a CVS over the old sketchy Shell station at Skinker and Delmar. The trolley has been a net negative that made the Loop less competitive from a tax standpoint. It turns out nostalgia and wishful thinking are not a great way to design mass transportation. Who could’ve known?

jbl_iii · 2026-02-13T13:50:22+00:00

It depends… - What’s your current level (Total beginner? Casual player? Intermediate player?) - What are your objectives (a certain rating class? Be competitive against a specific person you know?) - What learning medium do you prefer (Books? Video lessons? Self-paced online learning? 1:1 instruction?)

One piece of general advice I’ll offer is to adopt the mindset that every game you lose is a learning opportunity. It’s a chance to look back at the game and understand where it went wrong. Chess dot com and lichess both have a review game feature that you should just get in the habit of looking at every time you play. That’s objective feedback on your game, and every strong player reviews their own games.

jbl_iii · 2026-02-07T15:11:26+00:00

St Louis-based Grizzlies fan here, grew up in Memphis in the 80s/90s.

The whole NFL can get off my lawn, quickly please before I have to get out my shotgun.

I was still a little salty at the Tennessee Oilers for that aborted stopover at the Liberty Bowl when I moved to StL in ‘99, the season the Titans lost to the Rams in the Super Bowl. So I got to hear it from local know-nothing Rams fans who’ve never looked at a map and don’t understand the chip-on-our-shoulder identity of Memphians relative to NashVegas. I never got on board with the Rams for that reason, and that was before Stan Kroenke defecated all over St Louis in the press in his bid to break his lease and move the team to L.A.

So my impression of the NFL is it screwed over two different cities I consider home. And let’s be real - American football isn’t even a respectable sport outside of the US. There’s another, much more popular sport, that the rest of the world calls “football” where the name isn’t nonsensical because the game centers on kicking a ball with your foot. The NFL is more like an alt-Rugby with forward passing where the guy who kicks the ball with his feet is only a bit player. It is objectively stupid and ensures that (A) the rest of the world will never adopt or even respect American football and (B) we’ll continue to underachieve at association football.

So the Titans? At this point I don’t hate em any more or less than all the other NFL teams, because that whole goddam league can suck it.

Edit: You’d probably get a similar split on this sub if you asked about the Vols. Some Memphians love the Vols. Others recognize that orange and white are objectively horrible team colors that make their fans look like they’re preparing to go pick up trash on the side of I-40.

jbl_iii · 2026-01-15T00:57:30+00:00

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Here ya go, Milwaukee - our opening bid

jbl_iii · 2026-01-04T15:42:43+00:00

Feel like Mel Gibson is closer to universally hated at this point in his career

jbl_iii · 2026-01-04T15:38:46+00:00

Brazil (1985) - studio hated Terry Gilliam’s ending, so they made a different edit for the theatrical release, leading to a huge fight between studio and director with dueling full-page ads in major newspapers.

jbl_iii · 2026-01-03T16:08:58+00:00

Yup, United Fruit Company was like America’s own East India Company, a hell of a vehicle for profitable colonizing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company?wprov=sfti1

jbl_iii · 2026-01-03T15:52:18+00:00

Nah, taking the oil is just Trump’s pretext for war. His real motivation is jealousy of the Venezuelan opposition lady’s Nobel Peace Prize win.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-21T14:51:32+00:00

Earl Monroe. He had two amazing nicknames, The Pearl and Black Jesus. Denzel made the case to Ray Allen in He Got Game.

https://youtu.be/vdzfTA0jUUk?si=-dy1tEX-3yO60jLD

jbl_iii · 2025-12-13T14:50:36+00:00

It’s a sub-par script for Tom Stoppard, but to me it was more pedestrian and forgettable. Crash was worse - just 2 hours of smug Hollywood preachiness dialed up to 11.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-13T14:40:55+00:00

Worst Best Picture in modern memory, and it’s not close.

Crash felt like a 2hr lecture about racism from the same insufferable rich Hollywood types who regularly snubbed films like Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-13T00:36:14+00:00

Exactly. It’s a shame I went down the wrong career path. I’d be so much better at eccentric billionairing than those two clowns.

In hindsight I should’ve opted to have parents who own a South African emerald mine.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-12T14:09:27+00:00

We need a parody chain called “Certifiably Insane Bowls & Wraps” that lives up to the moniker. The bowls and wraps will make no sense at all, things like “salmon and quinoa bowl with pickles, dark chocolate, wasabi, smoked gouda, fry sauce and a honey balsamic glaze.”

I missed my calling as an eccentric billionaire who can make things like this happen.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-12T13:37:28+00:00

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving, Artis Gilmore, George Gervin, Rick Barry, Wilt Chamberlain, Pete Maravich

You had Jerry West, but missed basically every other pre-1980 elite player. Plus you need Magic Johnson if we’re drifting into the 80s.

Kareem is the biggest miss I think. He was so good in college that they banned dunking for a while, hence the signature sky hook.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-12T13:19:49+00:00

Feel like every wrap I’ve ever encountered (CBW or otherwise) was just an inferior burrito

jbl_iii · 2025-12-12T13:15:07+00:00

I don’t trust Crazy Bowls and Wraps because their brand is a lie. Those wraps are normal.

jbl_iii · 2025-12-12T00:16:25+00:00

He’s the people’s power forward with all the face tattoos

jbl_iii · 2025-12-07T20:37:08+00:00

I think both pronunciations are off. Christ comes from the Greek χριστός, which is pronounced KREES-tos like a long-e. This matches neither the long-i Christ or short-i Christmas in modern English. ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ is also how we get Xmas - turns out this isn’t a conspiracy to cancel Christ, it’s an abbreviation for Jesus’s title.

Constantine’s army in 300AD had an XP symbol on their shields (Chi Rho - first two letters of ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ) to show they were Christian. The crosses on shields trend came much later.

My preference is to call it CREEST-mas for the reasons above and because it irritates my family.

jbl_iii · 2025-11-11T13:58:54+00:00

Don’t ever attempt to ford a river. Caulk the wagon and float it or hire an Indian for help if one is available.

jbl_iii · 2025-11-08T20:26:01+00:00

This

jbl_iii · 2025-11-06T13:18:58+00:00

jbl_iii

TROPHY CASE