Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Last night I had the good fortune to attend the 10th birthday party for the Live from Memphis web site. The party was conveniently located across the street from my building, at site founder Christopher Reyes’ loft. LFM has done an incredible job spotlighting Memphis music and all that is good in this city for the [...]

I was going to post about the stuff going on in Egypt, but this is more important.

Bardog Tavern has increased the price of a pint of PBR to $3, as shown on the image above which was texted to me this afternoon. Also note that Yuengling has gone up 50 cents as [...]

Couple of pieces of good news for beer lovers in Memphis. First of all, Ghost River Brewery at Main and Crump is spending $750,000 on an expansion. That will allow them to bottle beers and sell them at retail locations. Pretty soon you’ll be able to pop open a bottle of Ghost River Golden, and people [...]

Running is probably the last thing you ever expected to see discussed on my blog, but since a lot of my readers run with the Salty Dogs, I figured I should mention this: Popular iPhone/Android app RunKeeper Pro is now free. Before, it sold for $10, and a one-month trial period as a free app convinced [...]

After our disastrous showing in trivia last night, some of the gang decided to head down the street to Bar None. We relaxed on the couches, drank PBR, and ate crawfish dip. The Nuh-Uh Girl, who protested that she was on a diet and didn’t want to eat, soon dived into the crawfish dip and finished [...]

Circa by John Bragg re-opens tonight. It closed its Downtown location in October (which has since turned into Bar None) in order to find a place out east to be closer to its customer base. Yesterday a co-worker asked me how to get to the new Circa. I replied, “I think you take Poplar out past [...]

Yesterday I wrote about Valentine’s Day gifts delivered by Grizz. If baseball’s more your sweetheart’s game, you can arrange a Rockey Redbird delivery. For $75 Rockey will deliver two Dugout level ticket vouchers, a $20.00 gift card to Pugh’s Flowers, $10.00 in Redbirds bucks and a single rose ($100.00 value). He will deliver either Sunday the [...]

ESPN, in their Bracketology column, now has Memphis projected as going to the Big Dance. They have us as the favorite to win the C-USA tournament and earn an automatic bid, getting the #12 seed in the West. Thanks to sports writer Doc Hancock (@DocHancock) for mentioning this on Twitter earlier today.

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Some excellent news for those who want to keep fit. The Harahan bridge, a railroad bridge built in 1917 that crosses the Mississippi River, had platforms on the side for auto traffic that were used until the Memphis-Arkansas bridge was opened in 1949. Plans are coming together to turn the north side track into greenline space [...]

A couple of months ago, I was working on a project at work when a window popped up on my computer at work. “Scanning for spyware,” it said, and it looked like it was finding a lot of bad stuff. When it finished, it listed several courses of action I could take, of which the recommended [...]