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the only ryan!

I am here for Friends

About Me

my flickr

wikipedia and google maps are my vices...have you seen street view? holy shit!

My Interests

being outside
being a hermit
not being a hermit
eating yummy vegan food, lots of it
but mostly just gettin' rad

I'd like to meet:

those who don't fall into the large statistical category of people who think the acme of existence occurred whilst they were attending high school and/or college.

and please stop turning atlanta into the poor man's l.a. it's killing me.

"you should never trust anyone who uses 'party' as a verb."

"uh-huh, and don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time."

Music:

always: les savy fav, stereolab, pixies, the arcade fire, old death cab, belle & sebastian, battles, the dismemberment plan, pelican, q and not u, maserati, quasi, trail of dead, dj shadow, camera obscura, dead kennedys, my bloody valentine, modest mouse, at the drive-in, wilderness, postal service, charlie parker, old prefuse 73, broken social scene, outkast, de la, tribe, built to spill, yo la tengo, old common, old hiero

Movies:

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Television:


quiet, you.

Books:

Orwell, Jane Jacobs, Robert Pirsig, Tom Robbins, Updike, Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Bill Bryson, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, Garry Trudeau, Berke Breathed, Lynn Johnston, Mark Tatulli, Scientific Progess Goes "Boink", The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll

Heroes:



this guy!

My Blog

somebody shoot me

so i've had the stomach flu for the past few days, have been living in my bed, blah blah blah...anyways, boredom/loneliness set in enough to actually turn on the tv. good god, the next time i ever ge...
Posted by the only ryan! on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

shitty calls to get from your sister

my parents' dog died today. she was two months shy of 16. i guess it was something with her liver...sixteen's pretty old for a dog, even a small one. i was twelve when we got her. i wasn't so stok...
Posted by the only ryan! on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:27:00 PST

what i do at work, condensed version

i turn this..into this..a more detailed story of how that happens to come soon.oh yeah, this is what it looks like after powdercoating:.....
Posted by the only ryan! on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:04:00 PST

booze and games

i really gotta get better about getting pictures up here in a timely manner...anyway, these are from two different game nights this past winter: one at Gail's, and one at Sam's. the games were Apples...
Posted by the only ryan! on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:49:00 PST

spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does

Simpsons movie = AWESOME!a little disappointed that the midnight premiere didn't sell out, and only one dude came in costume (no, that one dude was not me), but the movie itself was sooooo good. stok...
Posted by the only ryan! on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:59:00 PST

godfuckingdammit

riding to work this morning, not two blocks from my apt, some dipshit redneck in a giant pickup doesn't look for oncoming traffic while pulling out for a left turn, pulls in front of me, i have to sli...
Posted by the only ryan! on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:09:00 PST

Dekalb vs skateboarding

so for those of you not up on the georgia skate world, we're finally making baby steps out of the stone age and getting some outdoor concrete skateparks, like every other podunk town in the country ha...
Posted by the only ryan! on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST

new additions to the extended fam

i now have a niece. meet Mercy Skye James...man, babies are weird lookin'.and although my sister is still trying for a baby, she decided it was about time to add another mouth to feed (and throw tenn...
Posted by the only ryan! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:19:00 PST

DC and THE PLAN!

so in a whirlwind of awesomeness, last weekend i rejoined forces with the Rach(a)els and rocked out at the Dismemberment Plan reunion show. it was just like old times...uh, except that we were in DC,...
Posted by the only ryan! on Sun, 06 May 2007 12:28:00 PST

you mean i can have a life again?

i know, i know...you haven't seen/heard from me in weeks.  but for good reason!  my shitty valet schedule has been augmented with many, many hours back at Phase 3; making for a somewhat rich...
Posted by the only ryan! on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:09:00 PST