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Ryan

ravenkin

About Me

What to say.... Well, I'm a young guy with a keen interest in Eastern and Western philosophy and world religions who loves to read and write. I play a few tabletop rpgs and take kung fu when I can. There. Me in a nutshell.

My Interests

Belief (Philosophy and religion, eastern and western, modern or ancient), literature, writing (poetry and fiction), gaming (PC and tabletop), martial arts, World of Darkness

I'd like to meet:

People with some kind of fascination. Creative people. Writers, poets, and martial artists.

Music:

Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Weezer, The Beatles, Our Lady Peace, Evanescence

Movies:

The Lost Boys, Fight Club, The Crow, Donnie Brasco, Donnie Darko, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Waking Life, anything Bruce Lee or Jet Li. There's more, but I'm lazy :P

Books:

That's a tough one.... A lot of old Taoist and Buddhist stuff like the Tao Te Ching and the Dhammapada. Anything by Brian Lumley like the Necroscope series, anything by Anne Rice, almost anything by Stephen King, anything by Clive Barker ect

My Blog

Correction

The actual address is http://fireandfrost.analae.ca/wordpress
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:48:00 PST

New Home Online!

http://fireandfrost.analae.com/wordpressFeel free to visit me there from now on for posts, poetry, prose, rants and babblings.:)
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:18:00 PST

Friday’s Coming

Well, wordpress looks like a go.  I've been sifting through layouts, and that's been fun.  I guess it's just a matter of finding something that suits my current writing style.  I have t...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST

Finally! An Update!

Hello All! Interesting times these days, but I've got some good writing out of it. Just wanted to let you all know that within the next short while, all of my blogging will be hosted through Wordpre...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:36:00 PST

Decision, Speculation and Quotation

Well, it seems I've just headed into a new phase. I'm starting work for Hurley asap, back to calmly but determinedly raking my Zen gardens with cubicles rising up out of the carpets. The Starbucks pla...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:59:00 PST

Wistful Kirkus Ponderings

And so, here I sit with about an hour and a bit until Heather arrives, and then it's off to the full moon ritual at the Unitarian church.  It's most excellent that they let pagans do some rits th...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:03:00 PST

Sunstroke, The Runes of Starbucks and Research

Heh. Been a while since I posted. I've been writing a lot in my paper journals, with the intent of transcribing some of it here, online. Ah, but the work piles up faster than I've been able to handle ...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:14:00 PST

I Foresee Kundalini On A Snow-Shrouded Beach

Well, here I sit just before the brink of a new day.  I think I've got some kind of flu/cold thing which seems to be going around right now.  Two illnesses for the price of one!!!1! :DMade s...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:57:00 PST

The Birth And Death Of You And I

I had a strange thought tonight.  What if what All This is literally the body of a being that has evolved or is in a primal state where it has developed sentient limbs that have grown from it ove...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:14:00 PST

Ass-Billboards And Inheritance

I was just sitting outside, letting my mind drift, and my thoughts turned to poetry, then to high school and the reading I did in creative writing with Mr. MacKay of a poem I'd written called "Unless ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:38:00 PST