Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Fellow blogger Ptolemy Kat has a 3-year-old male cat she’s looking to give away. He’s a white cat with black markings named Baylor. If anyone wants to adopt a cat you can contact her through her blog.

Note to PK: You’d probably have an easier time getting rid of him if you didn’t refer [...]

I found the website of Blues City Pastry, the pastry and coffee shop coming to the corner of Main Street and Peabody Place, this morning. There’s not a whole lot there right now but it says they hope to have the place open by Memphis [...]

Tonight I attended the first “Dinner Blues” dance lesson, dinner and dance at the Blue Worm on Airways. Here’s a report, and I’m going to break this down into two sections, reporting on NewVo Blues and the club separately.

NewVo Blues: The lesson started a little after 7. We all warmed up by learning [...]

A reader who lives in the Claridge House e-mailed me and posed the question below:
Do you know of anyone who will run errands and pick up/deliver stuff in the Downtown area? I’m thinking stuff like dry cleaning, prescription refills, booze, stuff from Schnuck’s, and so on.

Surely some enterprising soul has found that need and filled [...]

About 7:00 last night I hit 25-cent beer night at Pat O’Brien’s, and it was pretty fun. Beer was served at the small bar (they call it the locals’ bar) to the left when you first walk in, and you can either drink it there or take it to the piano room (where they had [...]

Thanks to regular blog reader Mendi for the info… there is indeed 25-cent draft at Pat O’Brien’s tonight, from 6 to 8. She also informed me that there are specials on Tuesdays as well, 2 for 1 beers until midnight and select drinks until 10.

What do you tip on a 25-cent beer? Even a [...]

Here’s an opportunity for you to make yourself famous. Every June I do a special feature called Tube Top Month right here in this blog, designed to promote the buying and wearing of the tube top, in my opinion the greatest fashion item ever made. For the entire month every post will mention tube [...]

The week’s half over! Let’s see what’s going on for the remainder:

- Tonight: Someone told me that they thought Pat O’Brien’s had 25 cent beer on Wednesdays. Can anyone confirm this, and tell me the hours? I may have to walk down there and check this out for myself – worst case [...]

My Midtown Memphis by Ryan Jones.

Looks like he’s going to do for Midtown what I do for Downtown… news on all the bars, restaurants, and art openings in the area. It’s been going for less than a month but he appears to be off to a good start. If you enjoy my posts I [...]

I pay to park in a garage across the alley from my apartment building. It’s a small garage with tight corners, and recently I’ve had several near head-on collisions as I pulled in and out of the garage. This is my rant to my fellow parkers.

1) The garage is not your personal race track. [...]