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ryan

I am the Interstellar Wanderer

About Me

favorites: I'll snatch you bald-headed, blue, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, when that guy who was in fargo says in magnolia "I have lots of love to give," when t.s eliot tells us that the world won't end in a bang but in a whimper, the girl with a pearl earring, londontown, subways, honeysuckle, hoagies from rocco and anna's, chamois, combed cotton t-shirts, barefoot, hot coffee, wind.

My Interests

You move, I'll shake.

I'd like to meet:

travelers.

Music:

in no particular order: Low, Pedro the Lion, Radiohead, Andre Crouch, Richard Swift, Starflyer 59, Parliament, Horace Silver, David Brubeck, Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Aimee Mann, the innocence mission, Buddy Miles, Townes Van Zandt, if you make this too long nobody will read it. Duke Ellington.

Movies:

i heart magnolia not huckabees.

Books:

The Power and the Glory Grahame Greene

Heroes:

the great cloud of witnesses that came before.

My Blog

Merry Christmas 2006

Merry Christmas 2006   It is always difficult when a deal requires an unusual move. We get so accustomed to doing the "normal" things that when an "abnormal" play is required, we often miss it. ...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:56:00 PST

christmas card oct 2006

Merry Christmas 10.2006   Sometimes I feel like a goalie in soccer waiting for the game to come to me and when it finally does I become overwhelmed with adrenaline which lasts longer than the th...
Posted by ryan on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:46:00 PST

christmas in july 2006

  Howdy, This is my Christmas in July Christmas Card 2006. We have some new people so the rest of you can skip this part to the next paragraph. But, for the rest of you this is a quasi newsletter...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:30:00 PST

Christmas Card 4/15/06

Hello this eve of Easter and welcome to this installment of Christmas Card. Nothing changes if nothing changes. In this season of forgiveness I will also point to the coupling need of fulfilling our ...
Posted by ryan on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:42:00 PST

Don't spend all your cool in one place.

I limit myself to 5 litres of cool per day, I find it keeps me balanced, fun to be around, but not in any kind of overbearing way like the kind of people who are so fun to be around you are like, stop...
Posted by ryan on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:04:00 PST

cause I can and no one reads these

you, reading this, don't you have something better to do?  If you had instead wrote a little more, played a little more, drew a little more, connected a little more the pieces, if you had taken t...
Posted by ryan on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:49:00 PST

Christmas Card 2005

Merry Christmas 2005 If you do not already have a 2005 ornament for your tree, print this out and take a safety pin to the angel on top. Yes, it's that time a year when Ryan sends out a Christmas Car...
Posted by ryan on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:26:00 PST

Downingtown Area Christian Sports League 2005 B Division Volleyball Champs.

Yup, for two years in a row now I have been on Fairview Presbyterian Church's volleyball team, now with the distinction of Champions of the Downingtown Area Christian Sports League Volleyball B Divisi...
Posted by ryan on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:55:00 PST

Trendy Party Questions and answers

I had these questions put to me by a heroin addict at work.  Apparently these questions are good for parties and such so here is pretty much how the conversation went. You have a key in your hand...
Posted by ryan on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:31:00 PST