Paul Ryburn’s Journal

One thing I noticed about my recent New Orleans trip is that I took hardly any photos. The ones you saw yesterday in my “NOLA trip – Food and Drink” post were about the only ones I took. On the other hand, up until a few years ago when I traveled, I took hundreds of pics. [...]

I tried to experience as much of the French Quarter’s food and drink as I could on my business trip, during lunch breaks and after hours.  Considering I was only there four days, I think I did a pretty good job.

This is a hand grenade, the drink that nearly everyone told me I [...]

A friend of mine asked me to post about this new and very worthy cause.  As noted in an earlier post, I’m still drunk from last night, so I’m just going to copy and paste.

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I am writing to let you know about a foundation that my wife and I have set up this year and to [...]

Legendary group The Bar-Kays will be traveling overseas to perform for our troops in Iraq and Kuwait.  Monday night, July 26, there will be a celebration in their honor at Ground Zero from 6 to 9 PM.  Everyone is invited to come out to send them off in style, and to show your support for the [...]

Normally I don’t blog about work, because I prefer to keep my professional life and personal life separate.  However, I’m going to make an exception and blog about the reason I was in New Orleans last week.

Three times a year my company holds national bridge tournaments in different cities across North America.  The tournaments run from [...]

Hi there.  It’s Sunday at 11 AM and I’m still drunk from last night.  Started the day at the Saucer about 4 yesterday, then went with my friend Lee to Kooky Canuck to eat.  Magan was working.  The hot one.  The other one was there too, but who cares about her.  Anyway, I had the corn [...]

Today is Social Saturday at South of Beale.  Buy a beer for a stranger, and get one free for yourself when you show your MarksMenus phone app.  Pretty neat and inventive promotion.  I may have to swing by and check [...]

If you’re looking for something to do tonight, SNOZberry performs at the Flying Saucer at 9:30.  $3 cover, free if you’re a UFO member.  They’re one of my favorite bands that play Downtown – check their website to learn more about them and view a sample song list.

Other Saturday night options:

It’s WKNO Night at the Redbirds.  [...]

Story here. Wow, guess we better not invite these guys to play outdoors on Beale Street.

(Edited to add: The pigeon has its own Twitter account [...]

Not even the loss of power could stop the beer dinner at the Flying Saucer last night.  They had the food warm and the ice cream cold, and everything was delicious.  Here are some pics.

Before the dinner, we saw Brick walking down Second, on her way to her job at the Goose. We opened the [...]