Little Caesar's Rocker

Park at Mendenhall

12/7/2006 10:44:03 AM

This was news to me. Apparently, Memphis has a new landmark character that ranks up there with the 'waver guy' who used to hang out on Walnut Grove, the 'medicine man' from the Coliseum, the 'Yates crazy lady' back in the 80's or that 'one eyed guy' on Union. The other day I was out East making a foos-ball table pickup with Ken when I came to the light at Park and Mendenhall. Now I'm sure everybody has seen the poor guys that places like Little Caesar's and Valvoline run out to the corner when business is slow to serve as human billboards. Well, while this guy is no different except from those poor defeated souls, he has decided to make the most of his time. Armed only with a mp3 player that I presume is loaded with hours of 'death rock', this guy goes total completely air guitar with whatever meal deal sign Little Caesar's runs him out there with. And while it is funny to watch, I really wasn't impressed until Ken said - 'oh yeah, that guy is out here all the time doing that'. What? This isn't a one time thing? All the time? You had to be kidding me! But then, almost an hour later no less, we drove back by and the guy was still going at it. Now I was really impressed. How anybody not named Lance Armstrong could keep a pace like that up for more than 5 minutes is beyond me. Truly remarkable. So the next time you go by there, take a camera. If you are feeling especially ambitious, take some pen and paper as well as I would be willing to dump some RVPR points your way as payment for this rv.com exclusive.

ford

- 12/7/2006 10:51:24 AM
da dude rules - he's da bomb dot. if i had just a tiddly of his energy, i'm sure i could wrastle a grizzley - i think he's probably on something a little extra than rock music though.

rvining

- 12/7/2006 10:52:19 AM
does he work in the 'restaurant' at all, or is he just a curb guy?

aj

- 12/7/2006 3:30:36 PM
this guy is truely amazing. i don't know how he can stand after so much head banging. not only does he grab everyone's attention, but he also times he positioning so that he is most visible to the direction of traffic flow...i'm impressed

PHonda

- 12/8/2006 12:17:45 AM
Intrested much am I to the move of this person pizza sales man. Not door to door but living advertisment American's beat other American's into being must I see. Photo with a jpg enabled camera from Sony must be to come. Interested for eyes to being, please enable.

loh1974

- 12/8/2006 9:42:17 AM
so does this mean no more ape costume?

aj

- 12/11/2006 12:28:02 PM
PHonda...I'll try to get a video of this guy sometime this week. You'll be amazed!

rvining

- 12/11/2006 10:39:06 PM
you better go for the video and interview aj as loh has NAILED a fantastic pic of the guy. he is poses and everything.

aj

- 12/12/2006 9:32:58 AM
according to a huge guy in the gym, i was in the memphis business journal yesterday...for some reason, surely they got the wrong person. anyway, if you have a subscription and can send me the link online, i'd appreciate it. i'm just curious to learn more about how businessy i am

rvining

- 12/12/2006 4:03:01 PM
we get it in the 'office' at STREETS. i'll be sure to look for it and scan you a copy. somebody go get an interview or something. this is an 'adventure' piece for sure.

rvining

- 12/18/2006 2:31:40 PM
AJ did an amazing interview with this guy that you can look for in the 'adventures' section of this site in the very near future. good job to both her and loh for following up on this. hmmm, perhaps we do need female staff members around here. nahhhhhh.

aj

- 12/18/2006 2:59:36 PM
i'm eager to see the info online!

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