Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Several times in this blog, I’ve mentioned a drink called a “duck fart” that has become the unofficial shooter at Sleep Out Louie’s over the past six months. It’s a combination of Bailey’s Irish Cream, coffee liqueur, and whiskey.

Well, this past Sunday duck farts were taken to a whole new level. Brunch regular Chad [...]

One of my co-workers plays in a Pink Floyd tribute band called Pulse, and they have a gig this Saturday night, November 25 at Neil’s (corner of Madison and McLean, in Midtown) from 9 PM to midnight. I haven’t heard them before but from what my co-worker tells me, it will be a good time [...]

Saturday, which was my birthday, I was told to come over to a friend’s condo in Barton Flats. From there I was taken to Sleep Out Louie’s, where Pam and Terry sang me a birthday song and my friends brought me cake and cupcakes. About an hour later we moved on to EP’s Delta [...]

Several people have asked me, “The Marmalade Lounge, what goes on there?” The Marmalade is in the South Main district, on G.E. Patterson just east of the building that contains The Arcade and Cheesecake Corner.

I’ve never been in there so I really didn’t have any idea what that place is all about… but as I [...]

As you can see, I have a new Blogger template. This one is so cool that I may actually not go ahead with the move to WordPress.

I tested it in Firefox and IE – if other browsers have trouble with it, let me know.

Looks like I’ll be meeting a friend at the Tap Room for [...]

Well, this morning my archives have reappeared, so I’m going to continue to use Blogger as my publishing engine for a little while longer, at least until WordPress releases a new version that can import Blogger Beta files.

I am, however, going to convert to a new template in the next few days. So don’t be [...]

As I wrote in the last post, I’m fed up with Blogger and am planning to migrate my blog to the WordPress publishing engine. Been working on it the past couple of hours.

First, the good news. I downloaded and installed WordPress to a test directory and it is WAY cool. Its templates are [...]

I use Blogger, the most widely used blog publishing engine, to post to my blog. But not for much longer… for the past six months, I have gotten progressively more irritated with Blogger. Its servers don’t seem to be able to handle the traffic around lunchtime on weekdays, and oftentimes Blogger would crap out [...]

When I was a kid, my grandmother used to love to go eat at cafeterias. Sometimes she’d take me with her. I quickly began to notice a couple of things about those cafeterias: First of all, the food was universally bland and boring. Sure, there were a lot of options to select [...]

This post is a salute to one of my favorite places to go in Downtown Memphis, A. Schwab, a “dry goods” store on Beale that has been there since 1876. Much of the merchandise resembles what you’d find in dry goods stores of 100 years ago, and some of it is just wacky and off [...]