Paul Ryburn’s Journal

PROFANITY ALERT: If you have a problem with the f-word, skip this post. I rarely bust it out in my blog anymore, but this is a case where it’s absolutely unavoidable. There’s no other term to appropriately describe what I saw.

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So, last night, I left Earnestine & Hazel’s about 1:30 and started walking [...]

You remember how I blogged that I had nothing to do today? Well, I lied. We actually had a surprise birthday party for our friend Yoko.

Here’s a pic (above) of Yoko unwrapping a present of cookies from Pete the Trivia Guy.

We had the party in the downstairs of Pearl’s Oyster House. I had [...]

Just cleaned out the pics on the camera and went through the past four months or so of pics on my hard drive. Found a few memorable ones that are worth posting. So let’s get this party started:

Wasted at Pearl’s Oyster House, June 2007.Only the Nuh-Uh Girl would wear a shirt that [...]

Last week I was walking down South Main and I saw this poster:

It’s a link to a site called DEWmocracy where you can help design the next Mountain Dew. As a huge Dew fan, I wanted to pass this information on.

Going through all the pictures I’ve taken in the past four months, seeing what I [...]

While typing the post about Frank’s Liquors reopening (scroll down and you’ll see it), I hit Wikipedia’s entry on low-end fortified wine to read about Thunderbird, Night Train and other wines that the panhandlers Downtown are known to prefer. One sentence struck me as particularly interesting:

“Cities like San Francisco and Seattle have banned the sale [...]

Ole Miss fired its head coach, Ed Orgeron, today, one day after he blew a 14-0 lead against Mississippi State to go on to lose 17-14. Check out this article on ESPN for more details.

According to the article, the dumbass went for it on 4th and 1 with a 14-0 lead in the fourth quarter, [...]

Frank’s Liquors at the corner of Main and Vance reopens this weekend. It’s been closed for the past year or so, and with the Corkscrew also gone South Main has been badly in need of a place to buy booze. Glad to see it back.

The e-mail I was sent about it says that the [...]

Thanks to my friends Chuck and Robin for a great Thanksgiving dinner Thursday afternoon. I went over to their Barton Flats condo and we had turkey, shrimp linguini, bacon-wrapped green beans, salad and other goodies. Robin had some of her U of M colleagues over, and since I used to teach I felt right [...]

Thanks to one of my readers for telling me about this. On the Main Street Mall, just north of Jefferson on an empty storefront next to the Subway, someone taped the note below. It looked like it had been typed up and laser printed. Names and other identifying info deleted for obvious reasons.

“(Man’s [...]

Not much is open today. I knew that Jack’s would be open, so I just walked there for my morning Mountain Dew. The only real activity is the homeless walking toward the Convention Center where they get free Thanksgiving dinner at 10.

Other places that are open:

Wang’s will be open today. Because nothing says [...]