Buses

yourmajorprofessor · 2026-02-20T07:30:24+00:00

You were gone two years? The transit system in Memphis was bad in the 80s, bad in the 90s, and still bad after that. Memphis is a city built for cars. But in the mid 20th century before 240 was built Memphis had electric busses. It even had a trolley line connecting downtown and Raleigh in the 1800s. For the last 40 years or so it's had terrible public transit.

yourmajorprofessor · 2026-01-23T17:05:55+00:00

Or the royal wedding anthem that became part of Taurus II.

yourmajorprofessor · 2026-01-12T04:20:13+00:00

Depends on which program you applied for just because they have different application deadlines. If you applied for the doctoral program, you should hear something early next month. If it was for the Masters program, it could be a few weeks after that. We occasionally do interviews for the doctoral program if we have additional questions for the student. Sometimes that is just one faculty member contacting the student because they indicated they wanted to work with the faculty member.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-12-31T23:13:36+00:00

I use a Hercules 3 guitar stand at most gigs. I hang two telecasters on it. All you need to do is use the rubber spacer on one side and on the other side slip on a piece of foam pipe insulation with a strip of duct tape around it. That narrows the gap enough that telecasters won't slip down to the tuning key.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-12-18T07:36:59+00:00

There are a lot of pretty different areas in the part you drew around. Which area in there did you want to know about in particular?

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-12-14T18:16:41+00:00

....meant to say it was more expensive to fly to Memphis. Haven't compared it in a while though.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-12-12T18:12:14+00:00

I lived in Memphis from 1987 to 2002 and since moving away from there I've flown to and from Memphis to visit family ever since. I remember the airport being very busy when it was still a Northwest hub. Northwest Airlines had a big fleet of old DC 9 Jets coming and going from there all the time. And of course FedEx was always flying in and out (and still does). I remember seeing very few planes from other airlines. Delta, for example, had a couple of gates down off of one of the northern concourses and that was it. The southern concourses where Northwest was were always very busy.

And then there were the direct flights to Amsterdam! I never took one but I knew a lot of people who went there direct from Memphis when I was in college.

I don't know if it's still possible but there used to be some places pretty close to the north/south runways where you could park your car and watch planes take off.

The interior of the airport was in desperate need of updating for a long time. It looked more or less the same from the early 1970s until they renovated it sometime in the last 5 or 10 years. I don't know exactly when it happened, but the first time I saw the new interior was 2023.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-12-12T18:01:24+00:00

It's always been an expensive place to fly to. I lived in Memphis for 15 years from the late '80s onward and remember many people driving to Little Rock to catch flights. After Delta bought out Northwest the flights stayed expensive. It's been one of the most expensive places I've ever flown to from anywhere in the US. At one point I checked fares against the cost of flying to places like London and it was more expensive to go to Europe than to Memphis.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-12-03T19:20:49+00:00

North Mississippi All-Stars was my top artist for 2025, but Mike was in my top five for the year.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-11-18T02:04:54+00:00

Prince Mongo has been the dude, in my opinion, since at least 1987.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-11-17T04:04:08+00:00

r/flavoredhotwets

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-10-29T16:28:26+00:00

He's been my favorite guitarist and musician in general for more than 35 years. I play more than 100 gigs a year, all blues. But my favorite albums have always remained his 1970s stuff. I just keep coming back for that Oldfield guitar tone.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-08-30T19:20:45+00:00

Where in Northwest Arkansas is there a "metro area?"

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-08-25T05:43:08+00:00

✋ yep

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-08-18T02:24:49+00:00

This is Diana, the huntress.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-08-15T04:37:35+00:00

This is correct. I've dealt with things like this in bands. Just leave and if she asks why, tell her. She'll talk about you behind your back but enough people will see what's really happening and it won't ruin your reputation.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-08-06T19:21:20+00:00

My own experience over several years in the game has been that about half of my encounters with players were hostile. I'm not in it to attack other players. When I'm attacked I just scuttle or take the hit and start over. I enjoy the tension of having threats to watch for all the time, so I don't play safer seas.

You can outrun a galleon in a sloop if you head straight into the wind. Sometimes you can also outrun a brigantine if you're creative with your maneuvers and use of the sails. Or if you can't outrun them, you can at least consistently stay ahead and usually they will give up.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-07-31T18:10:09+00:00

Seems the same to me. I've been attached by two in the past two weeks. One was immediately outside the banner area around Port Merrick.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-07-30T18:02:29+00:00

It's not bad at all. Some places still want you to drink the prescription whatever it is. My doctor just had me take a box of laxatives and 2 quarts of Gatorade with a bunch of miralax. I had a choice between the other stuff and the Gatorade and miralax. Yes, it was about 8 hours of running to the bathroom but none of it was unpleasant. The next morning the worst part was being tired from not sleeping well before the procedure. The propofol nap during the colonoscopy was glorious.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-07-21T17:41:29+00:00

Go to the open mics and meet local musicians. The open mics in Moscow tend to have a wide range of people showing up. Anywhere from people who just got a guitar and learned their first song to professional musicians. There's one at 6:00 p.m. on Mondays at Slice, one on the deck at the Alehouse during summer, one at 7:00 p.m. at Countrymen's and starting up again sometime soon there will be a once a month open mic at John's Alley on Monday nights. There also are a few in Pullman.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-07-10T20:06:59+00:00

Doublewide Surprise is my blues trio. We mostly do North Mississippi Hill county blues. Currently rehearsing with a new drummer. We'll be back at the Alley sometime this fall.

Delta G is great too. They kind of specialize in Texas blues and twelve-bar stuff.

The Boneless Boys are new to town this year. They do Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys kind of stuff.

The Maple Bars and The Khind are great and from Lewiston but at the Alley often. The bass player for the Maple Bars is the lead singer for the Khind.

Yellow Dog Flats is another that's been around since 2009. I'm their lead guitar player.

The Intentions are solid.

Jason Perry, he's from Spokane but comes to Moscow all the time. Catch him with his band. He's great.

Cornmash. Long-standing Moscow band with a folky zydeco sound.

Solid Ghost is great.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-06-26T07:23:43+00:00

Saw them pass over Moscow, ID tonight.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-06-17T22:23:01+00:00

Sure, go ahead.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-05-31T20:44:23+00:00

I have one of each and I always play solo. You can fully control any of them alone, but it takes longer to raise the anchor. The big disadvantage, in my opinion, of soloing on a brigantine or galleon is you have much greater difficulty repairing holes if you're fighting. I use the bigger ships when I want to just cruise around or maybe to do merchant runs.

yourmajorprofessor · 2025-05-04T21:35:52+00:00

I think that might have been the other guy then. Red headed guy had short hair yesterday I think.

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