Paul Ryburn’s Journal

“It’s Saturday!”

Current time is 5:29 PM Friday, [...]

Woohoo! The Memphis Music & Heritage Festival is only one day away! The Center for Southern Folklore app is now in the iPhone app store. I downloaded this morning, although I had to get through a couple of “unable to purchase” errors (it’s a free app) before the Store finally let me download it. Really nicely [...]

In case you’ve missed the numerous news announcements, the Memphis Zoo will have an outdoor skating rink from November 19 to January 31. Fees will be $6, or $5 if you bring your own skates. Zoo admission fees will also apply. It will be the first time Memphis has had an outdoor rink since 1976.

Groupon’s deal [...]

Bardog’s party raised TWENTY GRAND for St. Jude!!! That is incredible. And I cannot tell you how much respect I have for Brittany B. who raised $4500 of it solo by shaving her head.

$30K for next year? [...]

I made a mistake last week when I announced that there would be a new beer festival October 16, and it would be put on by the people who threw the April beer fest in AutoZone Park. I got my beer festivals mixed up. It will actually be done by the people who did the March [...]

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 [...]