Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Time to post some pics from this weekend.

From Friday night:  Here’s a pic of the Nuh-Uh Girl eating.

The Red Rooster has a TV where you can text whatever you want and have it show up on the TV screen.  As you can see, the Nuh-Uh Girl and the Nuh-Uh Sister were [...]

Not much to report today, so this one won’t be terribly interesting.

I did bum patrols for much of the afternoon yesterday, but stopped in the Red Rooster to have a beer with the gang.  Everyone really seems to like that place and I have a feeling it will turn into a regular hangout.  I looked at [...]

Ah. Life is good. Woke up at 7:45. Thought, “oh no, I’m late for work” then remembered it’s Saturday. Rolled over, slept til 9. Got up, put clothes on, walked to Blue Plate, ordered two sausage biscuits to go, walked to Jack’s, bought Mountain Dew, came back, sausage biscuits were ready. [...]

So it should have been, “CCC votes to fund security patrol,” not find.  Damn I was sober when I typed [...]

Official Team Rapscallion game watch party is at the Flying Saucer, beginning at [...]

Today I attended the Center City Commission monthly board meeting, for which one of the agenda items was to vote on funding for a 3-month private security patrol to deter panhandling. As I entered the building, TV stations were interviewing people affiliated with the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center and members of the homeless community [...]

Great article in this morning’s Commercial Appeal on the proposed security patrol Downtown to try and curb panhandling.  The CCC votes whether to fund the patrol today.  The article did a great job explaining that the goal is not to harass the homeless, but to deter the aggressive panhandlers who cuss and threaten people who do [...]

Wednesday night as I was leaving Itta Bena, I saw this on EP Delta Kitchen’s sign:

“Dead Rock Star Costume Ball April 3″

Hmmm… that could be fun.  So many choices.  John Lennon?  Jim Morrison?  Elvis?  Jimi Hendrix?  Kurt Cobain?  And many more to choose from.

This weekend is Zydeco Fest on Beale Street, which always brings some interesting-looking [...]

How-To of the Day:  How to Not Be Annoying.  I’m going to print out several copies of this and take them to the bar this afternoon to hand out to people.

In the news:  Some Tennessee lawmakers want to make it illegal to text while driving.  GREAT IDEA!!!

Here’s an article on a man who is selling his [...]

How does going to the bathroom in space work?  After all, in space there’s no gravity and everything [...]