From Memphis to Mosul
Today on our World Domination Tracker:
Marje Medina is in Memphis, Tennessee.
“Hard decision on what to send you…the famous ducks of the Peabody Hotel? Beale Street at night? Site of the National Civil Rights Museum which was originally Lorraine Motel (where Dr. Martin Luther King was assasinated)? Front door of Sun Studios (where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis started their careers)? Then again, no contest: here’s the gate of Graceland, home of The King. The wall has graffiti by the millions of visitors who have paid homage.
“We have an “Elvis Week” twice a year…in January (week of the 18th, his birth) and August (week of the 16th, his death) when Elvii of various ages, genres (Jail house Rock Elvis, Viva Las Vegas Elvis, bloated Elvis, etc) and persuasions arrive by the thousands to pay tribute.
“What happens in Vegas, started in Memphis.”
Ari Ngaseo was in Mosul, Iraq.
“The open sewers below, the tangle of electric wires overhead, the streets strewn with rubbish and the stench of decay–it was Manila by the Tigris.”
Wherever we are, we feel right at home.
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