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Ryan

Don't get yer hopes up.

About Me

Another beer. Another game of darts. Another drunken weekend with my old friends in some town where a decent ska band is playing. Another night on the couch watching grainy war footage on the History Channel. Another streak of fourteens to clean me out at the blackjack table. I'm sitting here writing this on MySpace, so what I'm about to say should already be apparent: I'm a bit of a loser. Not a lot of prospects at the moment. But I'll tell you one thing: somewhere out there is something I really want. And when i find it...Sucker, you'd best not be in my way.

My Interests

Beer, Darts, Leftist Politics, Organized Crime, Science Fiction, Chivalry, Gambling, History, Irish Whiskey, the Paranormal, Fruit I’ve never tried before, Pretzels.

I'd like to meet:

Hunter S. Thompson and other dead people.

Music:

Punk Rock (Including Oi! and Hardcore, excluding Emo), Ska, Reggae, Rocksteady, Old Soul/R&B, Rockabilly, Old Country & Western, Western Swing, Hip Hop (Including Gangster Rap, you pansies), Cock Rock Classics, Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, a bit of Folk, a bit of Metal, a bit of Jazz, a bit of everything except Techno or Electronica or whatever you call it.In heavy rotation lately:

Movies:

Gangster flicks, sci-fi, historical epics, (decent) horror, all sorts of random stuff. Cohen brothers, Martin Scorsese. I'm sure I'll think of more later. Old movies.

Television:

Lockup, American Experience, Heroes, Star Trek, The Sopranos, Big love, The Office, All in the Family, the old Twilight Zone, News, those farcical cartoons we all love so much.

Books:

Anything by Phillip K. Dick, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Russell Banks, Robert Heinlein, Neil Stephenson, various non-fiction, anything you wanna lend me. Lately I've been trying to read the Bible, but to be perfectly honest with you, that thing is sort of hard to get through.

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln and Meyer Lansky. Also that guy who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square. And, of course, Feedback.

My Blog

It's cool...

...I never liked you guys anyway.
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:59:00 PST

I was going to say something about Ann Coulter...

...but it turns out you get in trouble if you advocate brutally murdering someone, so I'm kind of at an impasse. On Friday, Coulter, a writer and columnist known for provocative rem...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:18:00 PST

February 14th, huh?

    In Roman mythology, the goddess Venus personified that ancient society's ideals of femininity. By far the most beautiful out of a pantheon of supernaturally lovely goddesses, Venus...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:51:00 PST

You should really check out...

So, unlike me, some of my good friends are doing really neat, creative things. This is where I promote them. Or would promote them if anybody was actually reading this.Brandon Bird   My old f...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:08:00 PST

So I saw "Inland Empire" last night.

Does it make me hopelessly unsophisticated if sometimes I just want a David Lynch film to be over?...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:54:00 PST

My e-mail to the mayor.

Dear Mr. Mayor:Let me first say that, in the past, I have been extremely proud to live in a city with such a progressive and energetic leader at the helm. Your strong stand for gay rights and your foc...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:17:00 PST