December 2010
Dear New Years Eve rainstorm in Michigan,
WHAT THE HELL?
Sincerely yours, dictated but not read,
Ryan
The Five Best Parts of 2010
I feel like doing one of these, because everyone else is doing them, too. These aren’t the only great parts of my year, but they are the five parts that sprang to mind first.
Studying abroad at the University of Cambridge. I was utterly gobsmacked when I walked around that ancient city. I couldn’t believe I got to live there for a month. It’s the No. 2 university in the world...
Anonymous asked: maybe im ruining my chances of having you follow me back by saying this but... natalie portman always looks like she has to poop. she has that same look and skin color that babies get when they're pooping their diapers. you'll notice it next time you watch a movie of hers
Anonymous asked: maybe im ruining my chances of having you follow me back by saying this but... natalie portman always looks like she has to poop. she has that same look and skin color that babies get when they're pooping their diapers. you'll notice it next time you watch a movie of hers
Whenever I listen to piano music, I feel very...
It makes every unpleasant feeling I’ve felt go away.
“Agents… are little lords of their little manors.”
– John Green
You will forever make me smile, sir.
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“It’s happy for deep people.”
– Sally Sparrow, answering the question of, “What’s good about sad?”
Resolutions for 2010
Last year, I laid out my New Year’s resolutions.
Make happiness happen. If I’m not content with something in my life, change it.
Quit being a passive-aggressive little bitch, even though I’m really good at it.
Get Seafear a literary agent.
Finish Book 2.
Item No. 1 is rather abstract. I spent the first part of 2009 — well, all of my freshman year — deeply unhappy, and I...
Be Careful This New Year's Eve
fakescience:
But that sounds like a grand adventure.
Just had the awkward conversation with my mother...
Almost four full months in and I’m still not used to legal drinking.
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Day 20 - Favorite romance book
I really don’t read romances.
I’ve read books with romances in them. But I don’t go out of my way to read romance novels.
Part of it is out of spite. In my attempts to secure representation for my book (a coming-of-age fantasy/adventure story), I’ve been told more than a few times, “Publishers aren’t looking for ‘guy’ books.” Look at the...
deicides asked: Really? I thought Black Swan was okay but I didn't care for Natalie Portman. She was perhaps adequate for the part but she appears the same in every role - bland. I swear I could hear her crying out to Anakin at some point. On the other hand, I thought the mother acted really well...
deicides asked: Really? I thought Black Swan was okay but I didn't care for Natalie Portman. She was perhaps adequate for the part but she appears the same in every role - bland. I swear I could hear her crying out to Anakin at some point. On the other hand, I thought the mother acted really well...
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Day 19 - Favorite book turned into a movie
Fun fact: I don’t care all that much for Chuck PalanPhalanPalin Palahniuk. He’s a decent writer, but he more or less goes out of his way to only write things for shock value. I feel like his books rapidly devolve into, “See, isn’t this edgy and weird?” To which my rallying cry is, “Yeah, so?”
I have a difficult relationships with movie adaptations of...
Saw "Black Swan" Again
I don’t disagree with what I said before. The movie is trying too hard to say something without actually saying anything. I “got it” plenty, but I think that the movie spent a little too much time pirouetting about going, “See? See? Look, drama!”
But because I knew that this time, and took it a little less seriously, it was pretty fun to watch Natalie Portman lose...
liltinysoprano asked: every time i visit your tumblr at its direct url, you have a new layout.
liltinysoprano asked: every time i visit your tumblr at its direct url, you have a new layout.
How you know if your best friend is legit
Reason #43,962: He catches the very subtle nerdy references you make to an obscure webcomic nobody else reads and, just as subtly, completes the quote you began.
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Feeding and Caring for Your Very Own Wryan
Congratulations, you’re the proud new owner/friend/companion/archnemesis of a Wryan! Before you begin your relationship together, there are some things you should know about the proper way to care for one.
Wryan is fed on a steady diet of sarcasm, idealism, and clever wordplay. In a pinch, Thomas Jefferson quotes will do.
Wryan’s main drinks are whiskey (either Crown Royal or...
Sleepy Dog Smell
When dogs are tired, they have a very particular scent.
My dog is sleeping underneath my legs, and he’s exuding that smell right now.
I like it a lot; it makes me feel at home.
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LSWOTD- depressed: describes a secret button,...
whenyouwishuponastar:
Lemony Snicket Word of the Day for October 18th, everybody.
I need to hang out with more English majors.
Nobody else I know cares about grammar.
Went back onto Neopets
Don’t ask me why. I looked up one of the pets I used to have and abandoned, and it said “The owner of this Neopet has had the account frozen.”
That raises the troubling possibility that my old Neopet is dead.
Watchthedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: The Other Woman, Don Roos’s long-shelved story “of a woman’s difficult relationship with her stepson,” gets its first official trailer.
The film, which stars Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Lauren Ambrose, Charlie Tahan, and Lisa Kudrow, will be available via IFC VOD starting January 1, with a limited theatrical release to follow in February.
[deadline.]
...
“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Restless.
“I know a thing or two about books, and that’s a book.”
– Hermione Granger, Snape’s Diary
“Love is hard and love is messy, and it can hurt worse than fire and sometimes it...”
– Hank Green (via craptitude)
Natalie Portman engaged and expecting. →
bromeg:
I approve. I thought he was pretty gorgeous in the movie :)
And across the country, a million twentysomething males shake their fists in her fianceé’s direction, thinking, Lucky bastard.
When you Google Image search "Gandalf," one of its...
I learned this in my quest to become a Pokémon master and catch all 150 Pokémon.
…
…
There’s how many now? What? Fuck that, I’m going to prove that Cambridge is better than Oxford instead.
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Day 18 - A book that disappointed you
Man, am I behind on these things. I took Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off, because I had better things to be doing those days than Tumbling (except I totally didn’t), and I missed today. That makes me… quite behind. Oh well.
I read this book for the first time last year; it was actually the first full-length book I read on my Nook. I raced through it at the time, but when I got to...
I had a dream last night I was a Supreme Court...
But not even on the current Supreme Court. I was President Bush’s appointee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor when she retired in I-forget-what-year.
To get accepted into the SCOTUS, I had to out-drink Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I went shot to shot with her through a fifth of Grey Goose, a fifth of Crown Royal, and I finally passed out when we moved on to the fifth of Jager.
I woke up...
In Which Ryan Talks About Minecraft for a Hot...
Ever played Minecraft? No? Then this post isn’t written for you. Go back to watching your indie films and playing your acoustic guitar and reading your… your… your Steve Martin. (That’s the writer the indie kids are reading these days, right?)
So Minecraft. I’m not very good at it, but I’ve only been working at it since the day before yesterday. I played for...