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Ryan O'Hanlon
Santa Barbara, California
Associate Editor at Pacific Standard
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Weird handshake, guys. Weird other stuff, too. Also: really awesome stuff, guys.
Football match on Antarctica, 1914
(via “The photographs of Frank Hurley: Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition gone wrong | Slate.com )
(via runofplay)
Pretty sound logic. Can’t really argue with ya there, lady. STUDY IT OUT. #studyitout. (study it out) Study! It! Out! Study-it-out. STUDYITOUT.
Also: glasses.
“Over the years I began to associate Coke with all sorts of things I like: smiling young people, sports, music, the Olympics, and recently, polar bears. Those associations make me “feel good” about Coke, a lot better than I do about RC Cola (are you still out there RC?). So when I pick up a twelve-pack at the grocery store or step up to a soft drink machine, I’ll push the Coke button (of course caffeine free, Mom) even if it costs a little more.”
— Alternative-cola-hater and polar-bear-and-smiling-youth-lover Mitt Romney
“It’s ironic — he walked in, and I found out later it was the only room left in the hotel and he came in off the street and came out, and as I’m laying on the ledge, blood fell to [T.I.’s] feet and he looked up and he had an Alabama hat on. I said, ‘roll tide,’ and then he looked at me and put two and two together and really saved my life.”
“To hear all his anti-success rhetoric, you’d think the President doesn’t like winners. Which makes sense, I guess, given that he is a fan of one of the regional Chicago Baseball Squadrons. Male voters know what I’m talking about.”
— Mitt Romney (if David Roth was Mitt Romney)
Kevin Lincoln: A Typical Conversation Between Ryan And Me
Ryan: if you have no regretsyou’re not livingme: exactlyso in a way, it’s necessary to my continued existencea sign that i am aliveforbidden that sign, i might just slip into the netherworldwhich is ok, i guessRyan: a dip into hades is not…
“If my scoring goes from 27 to 23, I’m cool with that. Right now, I’m willing to make any sacrifice that I have to.”
— Someone who looks like Carmelo Anthony, presumably
