Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Tomorrow promises to be a wild day. With everyone off for Memorial Day, the Sunday brunch/drinking crew will be out in force and going all day long.

Tomorrow will also be a day when we will especially feel the loss of our old hangout Sleep Out Louie’s. Last year’s Sunday-before-Memorial-Day was a 12-hour day at [...]

Hundreds of zombies descended upon the South Main Trolley Art Tour last night, and I got pictures. Here’s a link to the Commercial Appeal article about the zombies.

Everyone knows zombies eat brains… but did you know they drink TAB?

The zombies have found a victim, who indicated he/she wanted to be zombified by wearing duct tape.

Regular [...]

I got an e-mail this morning from MacMall.com containing the following promotion:

(Click the banner above to see all the MacBooks on sale)

Wow, the price of MacBooks is finally dropping to the point where they’re competitive with PC laptops. Even better, it appears that Macs are now capable of running Windows Vista or Windows XP at [...]

The undead e-mailed me this morning and asked me to remind everyone about the zombie march tonight. They will gather at the Old Daisy at 6:15 and then at 6:45, they will march down Beale and then turn left on Main and march down to the South Main Trolley Art Tour. If you want [...]

My friend Joan Robinson e-mailed me to let me know about a new event for Downtowners. The last Monday of every month, beginning this Monday, May 28, the lobby bar at the elegant new Westin Hotel will have a special night just for us. There will be happy hour cocktail prices for Downtowners, and [...]

See this CBS Sportsline article about Tuesday’s lottery party and subsequent trivia match at the Flying Saucer. At least Pete the Trivia Guy got 15 minutes of fame out [...]

The Center City Commission has two open positions on their Design Review Board, which makes decisions on Downtown building facades site plans for public and private projects Downtown that receive CCC funds. Current openings are for

One graphic designer
One person who lives and works Downtown.

If interested, you can contact them through their website, downtownmemphis.com. Meetings [...]

Wednesday and Thursday nights at BBQ Fest I hit the point of exhaustion… there just came a time each evening when I knew I was DONE. And Thursday night it came relatively early in the evening, about 9:30. I hated to leave when my booth would be open for another 2 1/2 hours, but I just [...]

I have a widget called My Earthquake Watch on my personalized Google homepage that shows all earthquakes over the past 24 hours on a world map, with different icons for different magnitudes. If you don’t have a Google homepage, you can visit the Earthquake Watch site.

Today I noticed that there have been a LOT more [...]

I’ve been in BBQ Fest booths for several years as a guest, and now for one year as a team member. Team captain Chuck asked me several times, “Paul, what do we need to do to get some hot women in here?” As I walked around the park last weekend, I thought about that [...]