Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Big win for the trivia team last night. Our tab starts anew with our $50 prize. We also won a $25 Blue Fin gift card which will be auctioned off within the team.

Rocky Patel, a cigar producer who has been called America’s top cigar celebrity, will be in town for a big event Saturday, August 28. [...]

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 [...]

One of the most loved features of this blog makes its return tonight.  Even from far, far away, I know what’s going on in Downtown Memphis.

For the first time since spring… it’s time once again for the “Brick” Quote of the Week.

Tonight Brick went to a Redbirds game, and she was asked which of the nine [...]

Robert Plant is in town tonight, to play a sold-out show at The Orpheum with his band The Band of Joy. Plant received a star on the Orpheum’s Walk of Fame in a ceremony yesterday, and it was proclaimed Robert Plant Day in Memphis. He discusses the new band, Memphis, and Led Zeppelin in the Daily [...]

Friday I received several texts that the Flying Saucer had a new pool table.  I took a rare night off Friday night, but I went down there yesterday, and there it was.

Check out the side, where you put your money in:

How cool is this?  It accepts dollars.  No [...]

Brick in a tube top [...]

MarksMenus has announced that they will start doing promotions with their premium restaurants. In some cases, you’ll need to show your MarksMenus app to get the deal, in some cases there will be a secret code, and in some cases you’ll just need to show up. Details here.

I have word on two more bars that will [...]

Here are some pics from this weekend, taken with my new camera.

First pic ever taken with the new camera. Taken by Mikey the Camera Nazi.

Speaking of whom… here’s Mikey now.

Uncle Ray

Brick turning her best side toward the camera for this photo

Here’s a pic of [...]