Wigging Out
Memphis is famous for three things: music, barbecue, and hair-related crime.
Last week two beauty supply stores were hit hard. An organized group of five women descended on Wigs Beauty Depot snatching 30 bags of hair before escaping in a Toyota Corolla. Industry Locs Hair was also robbed by a pair of wig fiends who made off with an expensive “Peruvian weave,” valued at more than $1,000.
Verbatim
“It seems a little too good to be true to be honest … This sounds like that’s something an undercover cop would do. One minute I’m doing this ‘experiment,’ and the next minute I’m locked in a cell with ‘Big Bubba’ on a weed charge. Ain’t no way in hell I’m doing that.” — 21-year-old business major/marijuana user Tevin Hicks, as quoted in University of Memphis newspaper, The Daily Helmsman.
In “‘Free Money’ for ‘Fishy Study,'” the Helmsman reported that, in spite of a the cash incentive, not many students have answered advertisements seeking volunteers for a marijuana study. Possibly due to some universal fear of Big Bubba?
Neverending Elvis
With Death Week 2016 in the can for another year, now seems like as good a time as any to turn our attention toward the future and consider a serious question posited by the U.K. Telegraph last week: “How Did Elvis Presley Become Our New Messiah?”
“Elvis worship is on the rise,” the Telegraph reports in its review of The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley, a new book by Elvis People author Ted Harrison. “Is it all just a joke, or is Presley mania the future of Christianity?”