Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Went to CityHouse Salon on my lunch break to get a haircut.  Afterward, I realized I was only a few blocks away from the Wendy’s at Third and Crump.  So I drove down there to get food to take back to work… and as I type this I’m sitting here eating THE BACONATOR!!!

Great article in the [...]

Congrats to the Rapscallions on yet another first-place finish in trivia last night… that brings our gift certificate total to $355.  The Saucer Girls team, who did a lot of trash talking last week after a strong finish, were next to last at the end of round 1 and round 2 and then just gave up entirely [...]

… from stores in Downtown Memphis, go to the website.  It’s an Uptown Memphis promotion and you can use the serial numbers on the dollars to enter into a contest to win $50 or $500 [...]

Calhoun’s Sports Bar & Grill, the new sports bar on G.E. Patterson, asked me to let everyone know about the following improvements:

- They now have two new beers on tap:  Newcastle Brown Ale and DOS EQUIS SPECIAL LAGER!!!!!!  With XX Lager on tap, Calhoun’s may be seeing a lot more of me.  Wait, the Saucer also [...]

Keep your eye on the stock market today… in case you missed this morning’s news, the Fed cut its prime rate 3/4 of a point in fear of a recession.  That’s a HUGE move – normally they move it up or down 1/4 of a point at a time.  Stock markets around the world went down [...]

The Majestic Grille is opening an hour early (10 AM) this Saturday for the 11 AM Memphis-Gonazaga game at the FedExForum.  The Majestic will host the official Tiger Live Remote broadcast of the Tiger game, and they will also carry their Sunday brunch menu over to Saturday.  That includes the drink specials, which are $3 mimosas, [...]

The Orpheum is looking for three well-connected MySpace users to promote their upcoming musical, The Wedding Singer, which will run February 12-17.  These users will receive two tickets to the opening night performance in exchange for promoting the musical via MySpace comments and bulletins and adding information to their profiles.  If interested, you can find more [...]

6:25 PM:  Today I went on a long run on the pool table at the Saucer, winning 11 games in a row, including the 10th game in one shot when I made the 8 on the break.  To be fair, Pete was the one who eventually ended the streak, but for most of the afternoon this [...]

Post is dated Sunday the 20th, but I’m posting at 1:37 AM and haven’t been to bed yet.  Therefore, I still consider it Saturday and “today” refers to Saturday in this post.

Today I spent a LOT of money, but at least I did it somewhat wisely.  Went to a men’s clothing store in Downtown Memphis whose [...]

Soooo last night I met up with 16 of my closest friends for a double birthday dinner at Pa Pa Pia’s, the new Italian restaurant on Union between Front and Main, in the space that used to be Meditrina and before that Cafe Samovar.  They did an outstanding job and I was completely impressed with the [...]