Get Your Freak On

Yesterday I went to the Tulsa State Fair. For me, one of the highlights of the fair is the collection of odd people/objects that are there.

One of those is the eight-legged spider woman:

If she looks happy it's because I had just paid a dollar to take her picture. You could also pay five dollars to take video. I did not pay to do this, but I did take a quick video. She moves a little and talks a lot:

I also met Olive, the 29 inch woman. She would not let me take a picture of her, but here are some of the other things I saw:

                                     This is wolfboy.

                                                    This is an Astralian little people.

                                                    This is a large woman, along with myself. I was flirting.

                                       That's me with more little people.

And here's another video I shot:

Freaky,

Ryan

I'll Make Only Sunny Weather For You . . .

A few weeks ago I found a song called "He Didn't" by one of my favorite artists, Bob Mould, that I didn't know existed.

It was a song he did as a guest vocalist with a band called The 6ths, and I've since downloaded it and listened to it more times than I'd like to admit.

In a contest of the saddest songs ever, this one would have to be high up there; it's like one big "what if?," and that question never gets answered, which is unfortunately how it usually seems to go.

Here's the song, along with a video someone apparently made for it:

It's quite a change of pace from Mould's typical material, which is intelligent, loud, guitar-based pop. Here's a great example of that, if anyone's interested. 

And, of course, a wise man once said: when every little bit of hope is gone, sad songs say so much.

Just saying,

Ryan

This Week's Sign(s) of the Apocalypse

Woman puts stolen check into the offering plate

Is this any worse than stealing from the offering plate? I'm not sure, but if I was her I'd stay inside during the next thunderstorm . . .     

Tiger attacks intruder in zoo

A tiger sure beats a regular watchdog, right?                 

Maybe the zoo can have a rotation, with a different dangerous animal roaming the grounds and keeping guard each night. They'll just have to remember to put them up in the morning!  

The guy actually stuck his arm into the cage. If he wanted in so bad, they just should have let him. Darwin would have . . .

Alabama woman lets daughter ride in box on top of van

That actually sounds like fun. Should it be added to the list of fun things one can do with a cardboard box?

I guess it depends on your jurisdiction (read the story!) . . .

Depends,

Ryan

Another reason not to leave your bedroom . . .

Pack of raccoons mauls woman

This isn't particularly funny at all, it's just odd. It sounds like it would be like a Disney movie from Hell.

They aren't so sweet, I guess. Or maybe he/she is actually smiling . . .

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I went to a Light the Night event with my family on Saturday; we walked in honor of my Grandfather, who died a little over a year ago from leukemia. Here's the poster my sister and Grandma made:

And here's me and my Grandma:

It was a happy/sad day, because they also had a lot of survivors there, which was pretty neat. Alot of money was raised, but I forgot how much exactly . . .

I'm still working on recording some new stuff. The good news is that I don't really have to rely on songs from years ago because I've been writing a lot in the last couple of months, a lot of which is pretty happy-sounding stuff.

I don't know what the instrumentation is going to be like. I had written some stuff for another instrument on a couple of songs (I even notated the stuff on a treble clef, which took forever! ha ha), but for now I guess I'll just rely on the instruments I own.

One song is kind of about that; notes that will never be played. But it's not negative at all, I guess. The good thing about mostly everything that's ever happened to me is that the good always outweighs the bad. Even if one negative thing happens I'm more likely to just remember the good things. 

And that's helpful when evaluating people, too, because no-one's perfect (not even me! ha ha). It's like hating a restaurant because they make one dish you don't like. Or maybe that analogy only works right now because I'm hungry.

Ryan

The Easiest Way To Get Made Fun of Worldwide

It doesn't get much weirder than this:

The wife of Japan's prime minister says she traveled to Venus in a UFO.

You can draw your own conclusions about that first statement, but what bothers me most is the next one; she says of Venus: "It was an extremely beautiful place and it was very green."

It's obvious this first lady has never been to Venus.

Yeah, I can totally imagine a lush green meadow underneath that mess . . .

She also apparently knew Tom Cruise in a past life . . . when he was Japanese.

I don't think travelling to Venus would be that bad, there are definitely worse places to go.

What places, you ask?

Uranus, for one.                                                       

Sorry.

Sorry,

Ryan King