Ryan Oakley

Author's details

Name: Ryan Oakley
Date registered: January 2, 2010
URL: http://thegrumpyowl.com/

Biography

Aurora Award and Sunburst Award finalist. Author of Technicolor Ultra Mall. Keeper of The Grumpy Owl. Husband, worker, malcontent. A simple man in complicated shoes. Dandyish.

Latest posts

  1. Slow Loss — April 30, 2013
  2. Been a Week — April 20, 2013
  3. Digital Dinners in the Cooked World — April 12, 2013
  4. Swarming Robots Over Gold Bones — April 8, 2013
  5. Eyes & Ears: Silver Strain – A Blue Rose [Twin Peaks] — April 7, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. A Non-Vicarious, Straight-Up STFU — 43 comments
  2. Launched — 17 comments
  3. White Man Carries His New Burden in #Kony Tote Bag — 15 comments
  4. I’ve Sold My First Novel — 11 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr 30

Slow Loss

Normal Anatomy of the Human Ear

“How long has it been since you could hear?” The doctor stared into my ear. “A long time?” “Years,” I said. “But this weekend it was really bad.” And it was. I could not even hear myself urinate. My wife had her birthday party and I muddled through as I often do, nodding and guessing …

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Apr 20

Been a Week

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Been a week, huh? I doubt these internetz require any more opinion or speculation about current events, whether it’s about bombs in Boston or our hyper-mediated relationship with disasters. I have a take on all this stuff and most of it is in the novel that I’ve submitted to my agent. The final pre-sales-attempt work …

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Apr 12

Digital Dinners in the Cooked World

eat light

Shit can only get stranger. The diet guarantees it. Lilac Chaser from xty on Vimeo. THE HASHEESH EATER (1857): I haven’t read this book since I was a teenager and I haven’t thought about it since the last time I was hiding under my blankets thinking through the various meanings of “I must”, “you must”, …

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Apr 08

Swarming Robots Over Gold Bones

skeleton rampage

ROBOT COCKROACH SWARM unleashed in Sheffield lab: If you’re ever under some rubble just take a deep breath and relax: Any minute now, robotic cockroaches will swarm over you. The medical benefits of a programmable group of nanobots are pretty obvious, but the swarm could also have military applications such as search and rescue operations …

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Apr 07

Eyes & Ears: Silver Strain – A Blue Rose [Twin Peaks]

Looks like it’s gonna be one of those nights.

Apr 07

Ryan Oakley Talks …about education

Ryan Oakley Talks …about education from VIDEOFILMIK on Vimeo. Shortly before a confluence of circumstance and opportunity forced me to leave Toronto, The Chairman (aka Videofilmik) took me to High Park, asked me a number of questions  and taped my ramblings. One of the 22 will be posted every Sunday morning. You can see them all here.

Apr 07

Street Style Pics of the Hate Crime(?) Worker

ryan oakley at work

‘What Ali Wore’: A Fashion Blog Dedicated to the Most Dapper Old Man on the Planet: Just about every day, Zoe Spawton takes a picture of Ali, an 83 year old Turkish tailor, living in Germany, who has 18 kids and a sense of style. Word of Ali’s new-found fame has even reached his native …

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Apr 06

Eyes & Ears: TRILL LOLITA – ITZEL XOCO

Been listening to and enjoying this. No idea why except, maybe, that it’s awesome. I’m hypnotized. I’m sure this sort of thing has a name. I don’t really want to hear about it. Thx.

Apr 06

Test From Tablet

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Just got a tablet and seeing how it works. Who knows? If the typing doesn’t annoy my huge clumsy fingers too much, maybe there’ll be the odd actual post up in this dump again. Musings from the yard or some such garbage. Anyway . . . Those are potatos. No idea if I have them …

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Apr 05

Eye & Ears: The Innovator

A glimpse of one of the guys from Nike’s Innovation Kitchen. The Innovator from Cineastas on Vimeo. Mike Friton is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike. His innovations are responsible for many elements of athletic footwear that people wear today. Each of his crafts informs …

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