Paul Ryburn’s Journal

We got killed tonight at trivia.  It was so bad I didn’t even add up our final score.  Congrats to the teams that beat us, and there were a lot of them.

However, I do want to say something to the top three winning teams.  The servers work just as hard whether you are paying with cash, [...]

I finally got ‘em uploaded… so without further ado… pics from Bardog’s second birthday alley party.

The windup and… the pitch

A beautiful shot of Jean and Amanda

Suzy in a purple tube top

Haley cooking sliders

A different kind of sliders: Bluff City Backsliders

Splish splash, I was taking a bath… the Sunday [...]

If you’ve thought about joining Bravo, the arts group for 21-40 year olds, today would be a good day to do it. They have a deal on Groupon today only that makes the memberships quite affordable. Bravo members meet at an arts event – theater, ballet, opera, gallery shows, etc. – once a month, with a [...]

Just wanted to congratulate Bardog Tavern on their second birthday, and thank them for a great alley party yesterday… pics are coming sometime this week.  Downloading them from the camera now… looks like I got about 200.  I got photos of several people in the dunking booth, and the meatball eating contest (and the Nuh-Uh Girl [...]

Saturday in the early afternoon, my day was just starting.  I’d started the transition of my hair from Elvis black back toward its usual color, having dyed it dark brown.  My plan was to clean the apartment as I played single-table Sit’n’Go tournaments on PokerStars.  Having heard that a crap-ass cider was the Fire Sale, I [...]

I just happened across a Squidoo lens entitled How to Be Annoying.  This is one of the best and funniest pages I’ve read in a long time.  It will teach you how to interrupt, how to whine, how to ask a bunch of irrelevant questions, how to make sure the conversation always stays on your topic, [...]

If you hang around the group of people I do, you may have someone tell you that EVERYONE is going to the Downtown Blue Monkey tonight for karaoke.  I am here to tell you that EVERYONE is not going, because “everyone” would by definition have to include me, and there is a 0.000000% chance I will [...]

The Metal Museum will have a Thursday night music series on their lawn during the month of September. Admission will be $5 and bands will be the Soulsville Charter School Philharmonic Orchestra Sept.2; Star & Micey on the 9th; Marcella Pinilla on the 16th; and Rebirth of Soul on the 23rd. If you’ve never been to [...]

I’ve been meaning to post a pic of what my hair looks like since I dyed it for Stumbling Elvis.  I just haven’t had a good opportunity yet… was waiting for the perfect picture to pose for.  And that, of course, would be a pic with a tube top in it.

Last night I was catching up on Air Traffic Mike’s latest posts, and he found a fantastic resource that I wanted to share with my readers too. On the second Monday of every month from 9 AM to 12 PM, and the fourth Thursday of every month from 5:30 to 8:30 PM, the Central Library has [...]