Paul Ryburn’s Journal

So, let me see if I can recap what I did last night. Started out at 95 S. Main to drink some free beer… then I went to the Flying Saucer… then I walked down to South Main for Trolley Tour… had a beer at Nate’s bar at Earnestine & Hazel’s… stopped by 36 GE [...]

Sitting here using the Saucer’s Wi-Fi to make a lunch post. I see they have a couple of new bottled beers: Eye of the Hawk Pale Ale and Tommy Knocker Dopplebock. No idea if I’ll like those but I’ll at least give ‘em points for having interesting names.

There will be an open house [...]

I can finally make the official announcement: My blog is a Reader’s Choice Award winner in the Memphis Flyer’s 2006 Best Of Memphis issue, “Best Memphis Blog” category. I’m thrilled. I’m honored. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who voted for me. I really appreciate it.

Best of all, as [...]

Today’s lunchtime post is being brought to you by the free Wi-Fi at the Flying Saucer. Their new menu is officially out today. Some of the new items:

Brat Con Queso – beer brat broiled with four white cheeses, served with pico de gallo and tortillas
Rocket Tots – cheese & pepper tots with Habanero sour [...]

Yesterday afternoon I got some Sudafed and brought my allergies under control, at least to some degree. Feeling better, I headed to the Flying Saucer for Pint Nite.

The waitresses were all oohing and aahing at an advance copy of the Saucer’s new menu. Since I’m on friendly terms with them (well, almost all of [...]

Been catching up on some of the other blogs around town… while cruising RachelAndTheCity’s site I read a post of hers entitled “Remembering September 11th.” (edited: Crap. That link isn’t working. Just click on the link to her main site and scroll down to the September 10 entry.) Rachel lived in New York [...]

This weekend I heard some GREAT news. The space formerly occupied by Alice’s, next door to The Corkscrew on S. Front near GE Patterson, is being taken over by the owners of the Blue Monkey. They will remodel it and reopen it as the temporary Downtown Blue Monkey while the real Downtown Blue Monkey [...]

I may not be Leslie Kelly from the Commercial Appeal, but at least for this post and the next one, this will be the Memphis dining blog.

My friend Mikey (who, by the way, says hello to everyone) tells me that Quetzal at the corner of Union and Marshall plans on remodeling. They opened about a [...]

I have a friend who is in Nashville this weekend apartment-hunting… although I just met her she has apparently been reading my blog for some time. Just wanted to let her (and anyone else who has a connection to Nashville) know that the Nashville version of me is Mr. Roboto, who writes a blog called [...]

I’ve been on a John Lennon kick (his solo post-Beatles stuff) lately. The song I currently have stuck in my head is “Instant Karma!”

Instant karma’s gonna get youGonna knock you right off your feetBetter recognize your brothersEveryone you meet

You know, now that I think about it, the lyrics of that song are a good start [...]