Paul Ryburn’s Journal

There’s a Downtown Groupon deal today: $7 for $15 worth of food at Cockadoos. Great place to eat breakfast, and they serve lunch too. On the weekends they open at midnight and stay open until 3 PM.

A new Jamaican restaurant called Evelyn & Olive is opening in the Edge district at 630 Madison. You can view [...]

I figured out a new way to be a more effective blogger this weekend. Facebook status updates and tweets are two of my major sources of information for this blog – but, when I’m out at the bar checking social media on my phone, I’ll often forget updates I saw. Saturday I came up with a [...]

Trying to catch up on two days’ worth of news. This post may be long.

The big news yesterday is that Southwest Airlines announced that it is expanding to Memphis. They already have the gates at Memphis International Airport, having bought AirTran last year. First flights are scheduled for August. Memphis air travelers will finally get to [...]

I didn’t have the opportunity to post yesterday because I attended a Facebook marketing training seminar out east at the Hilton. The seminar’s title was “Facebook Marketing for Relative Newbies.” Since I’m not exactly a newbie, I expected to be bored out of my mind for 5 of the 6 hours, and pick up useful tips [...]

There’s a Groupon for a ticket to a Grizzlies game being sold right now that is an excellent value. You get a T-shirt plus your choice of a Terrace II or Club level ticket. Get the deal here.

There’s a Tigers game at the FedExForum at 12 Saturday. For Tiger fans who want to eat before they [...]

I’d like to start today’s blog post with a “thank you” and a “congratulations” to my friend Pete the Trivia Guy. He completed his 4th plate at the Flying Saucer, commemorating that he drank 200 different beers there for the 4th time. They rewarded him with a $125 tab to throw a party, and he had [...]

Correction: In my lunchtime post I listed the Silly Goose party as tonight. It’s actually tomorrow. One piece of other Goose news – they have acquired a Ms. Pac-Man machine.

Soup Sunday has been announced for February 19 at the FedExForum. This is an event that runs from 11 AM to 2 PM and over 70 of [...]

Today is the day when many websites are blacked out to protest SOPA and PIPA, two bills that have the potential to bring China-style censorship of the Internet to the U.S. Wikipedia is perhaps the most well-known site that has gone black. Google blacked out its logo but stayed online. If you click the blacked-out logo, [...]

LaunchMemphis is extending the entrepreneurial culture to our teens. Friday and Saturday of this week, they’ll hold a shortened version of their intense 48-Hour Launch program. Event won’t actually be 24 hours, but 4-7 PM Friday, 10-5 Saturday at Hutchison School on Ridgeway. Participants will pitch an idea, create a viable business model and product, and [...]

If you operate a WordPress blog and want to participate in the anti-SOPA demonstration this week, go to this article and scroll down to the bottom. There are two plugins for WordPress. One will replace your blog on one day only, January 18, with a page you can customize. The other will add a “STOP SOPA” [...]