May 11
I hate hair. It’s disgusting to grow dead protein out of the top of my head. Although I’m not going bald and — given my unfortunate family’s hairlines– will never go bald, I finally got fed up with the little bit of hair that I have. It was making me think. I had to wash …
Apr 30
Glam studio had a photobooth at Toronto Alternative Fashion Week. I saw it but had been studiously avoiding the thing. It was named Glam. Glam makes me think of glamour. Glamour is an illusion. I am not an illusion. I am standing right in front of you. What you think about me; that’s the illusion. …
Apr 28
So I’m walking home from the pub with Amie . . . How many stories have started like that? Anyway, I’m walking home from the pub with Amie and there’s a couple of guys standing on a porch. One of them shouts at me: “Has the word poser ever crossed your mind?” I shout back: …
Mar 13
That’s a pic of Amie Scott and I that appeared on BlogTO. Someone emailed it to me. It has nothing to do with this post and I’m just putting it up because it’ll piss Amie off. She looks drunk but she’s not. That happened later. I’ll vouch for her sobriety even though I had no …
Mar 04
So things should return for whatever passes for normalcy around here. But, in summary: I got over my initial shock at television and found two shows worth watching. I won’t tell you which ones. I just hope they’re still on next year, when I am once again, inevitably, exposed to daily television. I can handle …
Mar 02
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_5jaibv2JA] Something that I wrote a couple of years ago has paid off. “Jack Jaw and the Arab’s Ape” was my first and, so far, only noir story. It was a mercenary tale. I only wrote it because I found the Thug Lit site and I liked the T-Shirts that they paid people in. Having …
Feb 11
It’s very cold out. How cold is it? So cold that puddles have frozen with the footsteps in them. That’s not very funny. It’s not a joke. Anyway, I was walking home with Jesus and I noticed that sometimes there was one set of footprints and other times, there were two. And this bugged me …
Feb 06
I actually went to karaoke the other night. This is not something that I usually do. And I never sing. When I drank, I did occasionally stagger onto the stage. It always ended badly. Usually with me and the the DJ in a punch up. That should tell you something. What sort of man picks …
Jan 27
The Ryan Oakley Fanclub is having another party. This one is scheduled for the new long weekend: “Family Day.” Like we didn’t just get through fucking Christmas. I actually got involved and wrote the invite: “Father knows nothing, mother is sad and what’s the point of brothers, sisters, cousins and children if you’re not …
Jan 22
I’m firing myself. Or maybe I’m quitting. I don’t know. My friends have seen this happen before. I strip down my personality and build a new one. So, anyone who has any personal business with Ryan Oakley should probably get it done by the end of the week. By next Monday, he’s out the door. …
