Jan
02
pic nicked from here After months of fucking about, fooling around and figuring things out, my migration to a site that’s mine –all mine– is finally complete. This journey began when WordPress blocked me out of my own site for “objectionable content.” It is now, hopefully over. So now I have to give some props. …
Dec
27
I’ve been experiencing some technical problems here at The Grumpy Owl. Some of these are related to a behind the scenes overhaul (this hopefully won’t impact you) and some things have something to do with other things. The worst problem has been fixed –I can post again– but, even so, there are still problems to …
Dec
11
Brace yourself ladies: I’m getting married. Holy fucking matrimony, Batman! I dislike marriage. Not because my heart lacks love or that I fear commitment. Not for any notion popularized by romantic comedies. I’ve just never believed my feelings needed the approval of the State/Church. Boy, was I wrong. Turns out they do. I’m in the …
Nov
29
My morning routine, which actually takes place in the afternoon, is usually rock solid. I wake up and have coffee and a smoke in front of the computer. I look at email. But I’m not quite ready to answer. Mainly I’m just deleting the bullshit. (Invites, sales pitches, your last email etc.) Then I have …
Nov
24
Being a teenage romantic and believing in hell, he’d always thought that five minutes after his death he’d wake up with a fresh lease on life. But at age fourteen, only ten minutes into his first bottle of cheap scotch, he got on the phone, called everyone he knew and told them he was now …
Oct
31
Most of what you need to know about anything you can learn from baseball. In real life, when asked for advice or insight or just feeling a need to offer it, I’m prone to telling a short story about baseball players. Having trouble adapting to something? Well, let me tell you about Travis Snider and …
Oct
27
I’ll try anything once (especially things I don’t like) so last week I tried advertising on this blog. It wasn’t for me. Some people can happily advertise away and get something out of it. Money, I suppose. Maybe even a fair bit. Not me. I got squat. Apparently my roughly 700 unique visitors a day …
Oct
17
pic nicked from here I miss the old logo. But this would be a decent new one.
Sep
30
Not that it’s any of your business but I’m heading into the country for a few days. Hopefully, I’ll get to go swimming. I went all summer without swimming and I hope that I won’t go all fall without swimming too. If you’re all that interested in my business, twitter is your best bet. My …
Sep
18
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Sep
18
[blip.tv ?posts_id=2639591&dest=43876] The second podcast for The grumpy Owl by Ryan Oakley.
Sep
13
pic nicked from here Until last night, I’d never watched a complete football game. It always looked boring and confusing. Every time I tried to watch a game (usually because the Simpsons was delayed by one) it always seemed like they spent more time talking than doing anything. It could take half an hour for half …
Sep
10
Click to play So this is my first podcast. You can also find it over here. Pretty rough, to be sure, but give me a break. I have no experience whatsoever. I’d like to see you learn in public sometime.
Aug
22
As the world changes, so do our needs. As our needs change so does the world. Who needed literacy 20,000 years ago? Who needed the internet just twenty years ago? In just twenty years hence, you might need a garden and a second head complete with penile attachment. To show you’re stylish and forward thinking, …
Aug
14
Aug
09
Owl Pellets: My Undigested Internets. Gatochy’s Blog: The Cat and the Moon – The animated story of a cat that’s in love with the moon. It’s not in English but it doesn’t need to be. Of Mutts and Men – Attempting to trace the migration of humans by figuring out the migrations of dogs. Have …
Aug
06
Owl Pellets: My Undigested Internets. Welcome To The American Patriot’s Bible – The Bible gets remastered so that it's all about America. The American Conservative — God’s Country – TAC reviews the American Patriot Bible and has some harsh words for it. Also some interesting info about the founding fathers and their beliefs in God: …
Jul
29
Owl Pellets: My Undigested Internets. The spy who billed me twice – Wikileaks – The torture business is corrupt? How Nanotechnology Can Make Food Work (and Smell) Better – Health Blog – WSJ – I want nano bacon flavoured broccoli. Chimpanzees Die From Primate Version of HIV – US News and World Report – If …
Jul
28
Owl Pellets: My Undigested Internets. Fermi’s Paradox – The Last Challenge for Copernicanism? – I haven’t read this yet (going to save this baby for a relaxing day off — yes, I’m a nerd, or I would be if I was smarter) but it deals with Fermi’s Paradox. For those you who don’t know what …
Jul
25
Owl Pellets: My Undigested Internets. Difference Between – This website is all about answering the question “What is the difference between . . .” It’s a common question so this site should be of some use. Bandidos Trial: secret hand signals explained – I can’t imagine how they ever came up with these hand signals. …
Jul
18
pic nicked from here Blogging about blogging is even worse than writing about writing. It’s usually a sign that a blog is a dead or that the author has nothing to say. (The mainstream media should think about that before they write another story about the struggles faced by the mainstream media.) I often see …
Jul
13
Jeff Lemire at Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Vimeo on Vimeo Because Jeff Lemire’s new Vertigo comic book, The Nobody, was released on July 8th and because my posts that were strictly video, no text, were lost during the switch, I’m reposting this. It’s a short conversation we had about his upcoming work, Sweet Tooth, …
Jul
12
The Grumpy Owl has moved. You can now find it here. CLICK THROUGH
Jul
12
To the Canadian election. That’s right; we’re having one too. This is an exciting time for a Canadian. We get to go out and vote. They let us do this every few years. It’s good for morale. It allows the people to feel like they have some sort of say in the governance of their …
Jul
12
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
