Paul Ryburn’s Journal

I’ve been sitting here at Sleep Out’s for the past two hours, banging away on the laptop. Pam is sitting here with me. Pam has a tube top on. Anyway, I’ve spent most of yesterday and today working on a redesign for the Residents for a Safer Downtown Memphis site – go check [...]

I was reading Charly’s blog this morning and she was complaining that her roommate is running up the electric bill by keeping the thermostat at 67 degrees. Heh. That’s exactly where my thermostat been set for most of the past month.

It reminded me of the battles I used to have with my grandmother, growing [...]

- My car passed inspection!!!! I was really wondering whether it would – last year it barely came in under the standard for hydrocarbons. And it’s 12 years old. And I’m about 1,000 miles past when I should have had an oil change. But, surprisingly, it performed even better than last year, [...]

I just realized, I promised you a good story about one of the bums downtown, and I never delivered.

Last week, when I was at the South Main Association meeting, one of the members took me out to the building’s back door and pointed across Mulberry to an old shed next to a dumpster. He explained that [...]

So tonight I was DEAD tired when I got home. I just wanted to go out, have a nice dinner, and come home and crash. Being in the mood for Mexican, I went to Rio Loco. Had the shrimp nachos. And while there I noticed that Rio Loco has $6 happy hour jumbo margaritas. So I [...]

I’m hung over. This post is probably going to suck.

As usual, I’m sitting in Otherlands using their Wi-Fi to make my usual lunchtime post. Kinda hungry for a burger. Let’s see what they have on their menu… “Veggie burger (choose a Garden or Boca burger).” Hmmm. Yeah. I think I’ll [...]

Two weeks ago, when I was trying desperately to get the word out about crime downtown, my friend and fellow blogger AngieDawn sent out an e-mail, containing the crime posts and a link to my blog, to 70 Memphians. That e-mail led to interest from Channel 5 and other organizations, and led to us getting [...]

(Note: I made a slight correction to the info about the Goodwyn party, see below.)

- First and foremost: Residents for a Safer Downtown Memphis now has their core objectives posted online. Mike King and I worked for hours on these objectives yesterday. Check them out – go to the Residents for a Safer Downtown Memphis [...]

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The Memphis Farmers Market is held at the Central Station Pavilion at the corner of Front and G.E. Patterson every Saturday from 7 AM to 1 PM through the end of October. For once on a Saturday I woke up early, so I rode my bike down [...]

I’m sitting here at the Saucer on my laptop. Didn’t intend to be working on the computer on a Friday night, but it was important to me to get the news section of the Residents of a Safer Downtown Memphis site up as soon as possible – and it just came up. Check it [...]