Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Sorry, I didn’t take a pic. The Cheese Fries at Huey’s are $6.25 and you can get chili for $1 more. Order extra ranch instead of ketchup, because ketchup sucks. You’ll get 3 cups of ranch. You also get a fourth cup, of bacon bits, to distribute over the fries. Do you understand now why I’m [...]

Invited to a Super Bowl party that is BYOB? No one wants to be “that guy” who shows up empty-handed and then mooches everyone else’s beer. If you’re looking for a place to pick up some cheap beer to bring, don’t forget about the cash & carry at Carolina and Second.

I haven’t been in there in [...]

Brick wants you to come play poker with her at the Silly Goose, tonight at 10. It’s part of the poker league that also includes Bardog Tavern, Bar None, and the Bayou Bar & Grill. Weekly prizes at each location, and you can accumulate points over an 8-week period to qualify for the final table, where [...]

Mondays normally suck, but I’m in a good mood today… just gave a demo of the company Intranet site I’m building with WordPress, and it was well received. The MyCalendar plugin, by the way, is simply awesome.

Let’s get to the news…

I’m starting to get info about Super Bowl parties that will happen Downtown on Sunday. One [...]

Tonight is Downtown Night with the Grizzlies. $59 gets you a $99 club level seat, a Grizzlies gift, food and drink in Opus Restaurant, and mingling with your fellow Downtowners, members of the Grizzlies operational staff, the Grizz Girls, and Grizz the mascot. To get this deal you need to call Carl Rosen at 901-205-1445 before [...]

If you’re a Downtown resident or supporter, make sure you don’t miss this Commercial Appeal article outlining the strides forward Downtown has made in the past year.

Also don’t miss this article on the skateboarding competition in [...]

When I was recapping what I did Friday night, I forgot that I left out a very important stop: Rehab Disco, where a friend was having a birthday party. While there, JJ took me downstairs to Rockbottom and showed me the new tap wall they have installed. 12 beers on tap, or as I like to [...]

Okay, I’ve caught up with Twitter and Facebook timelines from last night. It looks like a lot of people were dragged to karaoke night at the Blue Monkey, even though they didn’t want to go. If you were one of those people, I have a reminder for you:

JUST SAY NO!!!

It’s nothing against the Monkey, as I’m [...]

Friday night I was at the Beer-Tron-a-Ton, the computer at the Flying Saucer that records what beers you’ve purchased. I’m down to the last 20 beers toward my fifth plate, and around that point it gets really hard to find anything good left to drink that isn’t massively expensive. I remembered that [...]

Every day I check Wikipedia’s main page and read the featured article. Today it happens to be a Memphis article. Congratulations to Temple Israel on [...]