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Aug.02.2010 - 4:22 pm
Melodica Deathship
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One of my best friends in high school was a man named Tim Ireland Ording. When we graduated, we went to Europe. I wound up in London for six months. He went to Dublin and never...
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Oct.07.2009 - 11:44 am
The Great Flood of '09
Down here in the South, after weeks of heavy rain, it feels like it's drizzling from the ground up. Moisture from the saturated earth drains into the air around us and hangs,...
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Mar.02.2009 - 6:50 pm
Posthumous, unfinished DFW novel
NEW YORK — A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year. "The Pale King," excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming...
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Jan.20.2009 - 10:17 am
Real Time Thoughts on the Inauguration Proceedings Leading Up To Speech of Barack Obama
(All times EST)  11:38 am: They're playing "Hail to the Chief" for W. for the last time. Thank God. Cheney is being wheeled out in a wheelchair. He looks a great deal...
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Comments from Ryan

Mar.02.2009 - 7:00 pm
In response to: Posthumous, unfinished DFW novel
Hmmm
Having thought about this for ten more seconds, this was probably a contractual deal with Little, Brown. It was owed in...
Mar.02.2009 - 6:54 pm
In response to: Why I'm A Slumdog Fan
Nice summary
It's a wonderful flick. That said, I still think Milk should have won Best Picture. It was flawless. Hell, you think...
Jan.20.2009 - 5:29 pm
In response to: Real Time Thoughts on the Inauguration Proceedings Leading Up To Speech of Barack Obama
Yikes
The dangers of blogging in real time! Thanks for the corrections! And yes, it was wonderful (except for the poem). Love...
Sep.19.2008 - 6:35 pm
In response to: David Foster Wallace
DFW
Hey, thanks for the response. Couple things. First, I dig this site a lot. I probably don't contribute as much as I...
Feb.01.2008 - 9:44 am
In response to: Sacramento County Detox
Whale Fall
  Bright surface recedes, whale corpse drifts through mid-water, settles on seabed Rattails, hagfish come,  many...

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below the low-water mark
Published by Absinthe Literary Review
below the low-water markRyan MastersPudding House PublicationsJohnstown, OH29 pp. $8.95   Seawater runs through Ryan Masters new chapbook below the low-water mark. Briny...
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About Ryan

Born and raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ryan Masters grew up tromping through redwoods and surfing the Central Coast from Big Sur to San Francisco. He briefly attended the University of London before receiving a BA in Anthropology from the University of...
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Causes Ryan Masters Supports

Surfrider Foundation - http://www.surfrider.org/