Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Thursday night at the Big Foot party, I snapped a couple of pics of regular blog readers. As soon as I snapped one of the pics, I looked at the image on the screen and told them, “That’s a good picture!” To which they immediately replied, “A good picture? Is it blog-worthy?”

So here [...]

This is my favorite of the animals mounted on the wall at Big Foot Lodge. It’s a bobcat swatting down dinner. The cat is a little bit larger than a large housecat.

Thanks to everyone at Big Foot for a great Christmas party Thursday night. Good food, good drinks, good people, good times. [...]

I will buy you this T-shirt, if you promise to wear it to your next meeting with [...]

- Sleep Out Louie’s now has the ability to plug your laptop or iPod directly into their sound system and play your tunes. Just create a “Louie’s mix” and show it to Smokin’ Lemon or whoever the bartender is. Assuming the songs are all bar-friendly, they can then plug it in and play the [...]

For the past two years, I have declared June to be Tube Top Month in my blog. I have used the month to raise awareness of the tube top as an essential clothing item. It has been a very successful endeavor, as several of my readers have told me they wear tube tops more [...]

If you’re considering purchasing a new BMW, it might be worth a trip to the south side of Atlanta to do it. Home run leader Hank Aaron owns a BMW dealership there. According to his Wikipedia article, every new BMW bought at his dealership comes with an [...]

Here’s a good place to go to find lots of deals – gotapex.com

Thanks to regular blog reader Otto for letting me know about this site. It contains current deals, discounts, and online coupons. They seem to be particularly good for finding deals on [...]

About a year and a half ago, I declared June of 2005 to be Tube Top Month. Not sure if people totally got it, I did the same for June 2006, and when the month was interrupted I extended it through July.

I looked upon the month as a public service. An opportunity to educate [...]

I live Downtown and work in Midtown. I started my current job in April, and for the first four or five months, I drove down Union Avenue to work. Every day I’d stop at the Exxon Tiger Mart at Union and Cleveland to buy my morning wake-up Mountain Dew.

And I’d say that roughly 75% of the [...]

I went out at 9:30. I meant to have one beer at the Saucer and then come home.

I had that beer. I also had another beer, another beer, a shot of Jager, another beer, a shot of Jager, another beer, another beer, and then I walked across the street to McGuinness and had a [...]