Paul Ryburn’s Journal

This year, instead of shooting pictures of the Memphis Zombie Massacre that happened last night on South Main, I decided to go for video. Here it is:

8 minute, 16 second video. Warning: The first minute or so starts off a bit slow; after that it gets good. Video shot outside [...]

The Southern Hot Wing Festival happens tomorrow at Main and G.E. Patterson from 10:30 AM to 6 PM.  Here’s a link to their site with more information.

Also, Calhoun’s Sports Bar and Grill has announced that they will open early (10:30 AM) so festival goers can come by.  The NFL draft is tomorrow, so stop by and [...]

Yesterday I took this picture of the Mississippi River from a third-story window in the Falls Building:

That’s Mud Island with the Mud Island logo in the background.  You can see that at its highest point, the river almost completely covered the top of the word “MUD,” but has since gone down to the point [...]

The second annual Memphis Zombie Massacre happens today.

The horde of zombies will gather on Beale Street outside the New Daisy at 6:30, and about 7:15 they will begin their march down Beale, turning north on Second, west on Peabody Place, then south on Main and walking through the South Main Trolley Art Tour.  [...]

Tonight I learned that Swig has closed its doors for good.  They tried to hang on for a while, but finally gave up.

Started the evening at Itta Bena.  For those (probably just AL) who care what I had to eat, I had a bowl of she crab soup.

From there I went to the Saucer to see [...]

Our Memphis in May BBQ Fest team The Ques Brothers is looking to add a few more members. The deal is, you pay $200 to join, and that gets you wristband access as a team member during park hours (there are some 24-hour wristbands but those have already been spoken for). You get to eat BBQ [...]

I have a widget on my Google homepage called “Today’s Reason to Drink.”  It tells me that today is something called Newman’s Day, where you are supposed to drink 24 beers in 24 hours without changing your daily schedule, falling asleep, or vomiting.  Hmmm, better run up to Jack’s and get a couple of 12-packs of [...]

Set a record for my stay at Itta Bena tonight… got there at 5:15 and left at 9:00. Usually I’m out of there by 7 to head to the Saucer, but tonight I didn’t want to leave. That place is really coming together – they have a new slate of specialty nights coming out [...]

For lunch today: Shrimp salad salad from Court House Deli. With a fruit cup. AL would be SO proud of me.

It’s Wednesday, which means a new Memphis Flyer is out. Make sure to pick one up – it’s their 1000th issue. Here are a few selected highlights from the articles and [...]

When I talked to the people who will be running it last night, they said they are going to carry about 3 times the inventory they did before.  They want it to be a full-service liquor store, so that Downtowners don’t have to drive out to Joe’s Liquors or Kimbrough Liquors in Midtown to find everything [...]