The following is a smattering of links that should give an overview of what I've written since October, 2002. Trying to pick the "best" is like picking your favorite child, but then again, I don't have any kids, so all in all, this wasn't too painful. If you have a few days, by all means, read the website front to back, but if not, here's a quick guide to some of the topics I've covered over the past two years.
In February 2004, I published "Wading in the Velvet Book", collecting many of the essays you will find on this page between 2002 and 2003 in one printed version (as well as many essays not found here). It's available as a free download here.
In February 2005, I published "Headful of Lightning", collecting many of the essays from 2004 you will find on this page in one printed version (as well as many essays not found here). It's available as a free download here.
In early 2006, I published "30x30", 30 essays written in the 30 days leading up to my 30th birthday. You can download that collection here.
At this time, there are no physical copies of these books available in print. Given sufficient interest, I will gladly fulfill such orders. Feel free to email me if this is the case.
October 2002 | November
2002 | December 2002
January 2003 | February 2003 | March 2003
April 2003 | May 2003 | June 2003
July 2003 | August 2003 | September 2003
October 2003 | November 2003 | December 2003
January 2004 | February 2004 | March 2004
April 2004 | May 2004 | June 2004
July 2004 | August 2004 | September 2004
October 2004 | November 2004 | December 2004
January 2005 | February 2005 | March 2005
April 2005 | May 2005 | June 2005
July 2005 | August 2005 | September 2005
October 2005 | November 2005 | December 2005
January 2006 | February 2006 | March 2006
April 2006 | May 2006
My take on one of the greatest bad movies ever, "Flash Gordon".
Links to some of the better articles on my old site.
The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones…steel cage match!
When I met Drew Barrymoore…
My night at WWE RAW…yes, I like wrestling, stop snickering…
A case for pop music…
Another reason I plan on eloping…
My favorite entry that no one even liked…
The woman, the myth, the legend, the hypersexual Mormon...
Review trying to sum up the first-viewing experience…
For anyone who ever wanted to go to a strip club with your ex, your roommate's boyfriend, and two swingers from MIT…
Undermining democracy has never been so entertaining!
Why should men be nice to women?
How to translate "male English" to "female English", and vice versa.
Those who remember the 80's, and those who only watch "I Love the 80's"…
I suggest some shows to the networks…
An analysis of record sales and the aftermath of the Grammys.
It don't get no mo' meta than this…
$300 for a night of bowling. Boston: where even the rich are poor.
Working out causes a flashback…
Trying to find a balance between the left and the right before the Iraqi conflict. Possibly the most trafficked entry on the entire site.
A lingual analysis of pre-war rhetoric.
Title kinda says it all, doesn't it?
The intersection of creativity and pain…
Perspectives from a newly single guy…
I break down the trip, "24"-style…
Clubbing causes a crisis…
Jennifer Garner's people call my people. And by "my people", I mean "me".
What Ray Romano and SARS have in common…
How special effects can make or break a movie…
A look at the most anticipated movie of the year, besides "The Fighting Temptations"...
Discerning what's important and what's not in a blog…
The issue of "insight" in blogging
Why those closest to us hurt us the most.
Thoughts on the newest Radiohead album, "Hail to the Thief"
Boy, this got me in trouble. The three levels of female attractiveness in the male eye…
A follow-up to "Wheel of Fortune", which take the offensiveness up a notch…
I go all Helen Vendler on the Spice Girls…
Thoughts on the movie "About a Boy" and the relevance to the lives around me…
Effects in place of story leave a movie audience cold…
They didn't listen, and then "Dickie Roberts" was allowed to come out..
Don't be fooled by the tips that I got, I'm just, I'm just Ryan from the blog…
Discussing who you'd allow your significant other to snog…
Five peeps that they best ain't never do the nasty with…
Dancers are so not cute when they are stupid…
You're the center of their world, and then, suddenly, they are gone…
Radiohead sheds some light on the current situation…
My review of the opening night of their American tour…
Where the concept of "The Boof" is started…
More on the concept, plus the first ever freestyle rap on the site!
And the conceptual trifecta is complete…
My mouth is now classified as a dangerous weapon.
What's the difference between a "celebrity" and a "star"?
Four out of five dentists recommend this one…
Storytelling, blogging, and chord progressions…
Coming to grips with the past few months via The White Stripes…
Not having everything you want, and enjoying it.
The first of three letters, to exes both real and imagined, to situations both real and fictional.
Second in the series.
Last in the series.
Help for you ladies out there…
The most anti-intellectual television review in the History of Man…
Writing for writing's sake…
Rewriting one’s self…
Morality in the Tarantino bloodbath…
Life arcs and all that good stuff…
Thoughts after Red Sox/Yankees, Game 7…
When life’s too good to actually blog about…
Why I like unstructured writing…
When good blogs do bad things…
Using some choice quotes from “Buffy” to sum up the current status…
I sing karaoke. Lucky for you this isn’t an audio blog…
Part 1 and Part 2. Mr. Dylan helps puts some things in perspective...
“Is there actually such a thing as a good strategy to meet someone?” a reader asks...
How male is “too male” and other thoughts...
Good and bad heartache, and why they occur...
Why picking only one day a year to be cordial is downright evil...
A journey through songs, in three parts...
Making a list, checking it twice...
A bit of wistful fiction...
Good to know I'm not the only one who hates these commercials...
Me and karaoke make the sweet love...
Thinking about a "reviewer" versus a "critic"...
What Russell Crowe and Larry Bird have in common...
Where I out-space "Trading Spaces". Or out-trade them. Or something...
A reaffirmation of pop culture's validity in everyday life...
I try to wrap presents. Oooh, and this one features blowtorches...
And then everything changed...
In the aftermath of my parents’ impending divorce, a quick look back...
Thoughts about resolutions...
My review of “Lost in Translation”, and communication in general...
First in an on-again, off-again series of comedic ramblings. Also, samples of such writing are here and here...
“A world behind a door. A door with a lock. A lock which can only be opened by two keys...”
Making sense of a senseless end...
A State of the Ryan address, in two parts...
When I say “minute-by-minute review”, I’m not exactly lying...
The First (and Only) Official “Miss Ryan-McGee Dot Com” entry form...
The first round of applications, proving I have the best readers ever...
When your head and heart have a steel cage match...
So many reasons, I had to split it up into two parts...
Seeking out the genesis of my life in letters...
When you and your website start to become the same in the eyes of others...
Talking about “emotional baggage” versus simply “life experience”...
“It’s become pretty darn obvious over the past year that while I have many talents, ‘picking out a girl who won’t wreck my soul by the end’ is not one of them...”
As is the case these days, it ran a bit long. So, two parts detailing the pros and cons of both dating and the single life...
A Chicago travelogue, over not one, not two, but yea, three parts, verily...
How superheroes and bloggers are similar...
A dream clarifies a few things in my life...
I bring the funny like Kirsten Dunst brings it on...
Reality TV sheds some light on the dating scene in the real “real world”...
We all spend far too long waiting to hear the forecast...
The head might forget, but the heart never does...
You may never go home again, but sometimes you can peek in the window...
Madison Avenue is getting all the good drugs these days...
My take on the best movie of 2004 so far...
I break down the “9 Circles of Commuter Hell”, with a little help from a friend...
I run a 10K road race. The story’s even longer than the race. So long it’s in two parts...
Setting a few things straight as the month begins...
Looking at the pulse of some aspects of pop culture...
All you need to know, seventeen syllables per preview...
Thoughts on the advent of gay marriage in Massachusetts...
Truth, justice, and the female orgasm...
So many accomplishments, it took two entries to catalog them all...
Taking time to remember a few things...
The butterfly effect from entering the wrong address online...
What astrology tells me about, well, me...
Using Travis to detail the current mind state...
It’s about musicals. If you don’t like musicals, don’t read...
Analyzing the verbiage of recent pop hits...
The companion piece to “The Inside is Outside”...
“Spider-Man 2”, “Before Sunset”, and getting schooled by my god-daughter...
Maturity as seen through mattes...
Booze cruisin’ with the family...
Michael Ian Black, how thou hast betrayed me...
When spammers attack...
Spread out over a few days. Take your pick. Day 1. Day 2. Day 3. No pictures of Ted Kennedy, I promise...
Things fall into place...
“All tongue, all the time” is born...
I try to put away my Mamet-esque dialogue for 48 hours...
This isn’t what the phone companies had in mind when they told us to reach out and touch someone...
Three tests to ensure a successful relationship...
Way too many words about “The Cutting Edge” for any heterosexual male to write...
Battle of the Sexes: Gym Edition...
My yearly, marathon-session commentary on the awards...
Look, I had an extra cup of coffee, and the rest is history...
My beard fought the razor, and the beard won...
Quarter-life crisis? Cry me a river, Fauntelroy...
Yanni and His Nation of Tubular Bells infects us all...
The Girl goes house on my apartment...
If being bad is wrong, I hope these things are never right...
What Matt Damon and Ben Affleck say about New England...
My suggestions for what should have gone into the new “Star Wars” DVDs...
How iTunes marks the beginning of the end for traditional media delivery and consumption...
A follow-up article detailing possible trends and distribution methods in the future...
A few thoughts as the Presidential election nears...
The first of the Red Sox playoff articles…
Game 1 of the Sox/Yankees series opens some old wounds…
They won Game 4, but I didn’t know until the following day…
And Game 5…hrm...
And Game 6…whoa...
And then the impossible happened…
A tale, in two parts, where I hypothesize the curriculum at schools about the opposite sex…
Thoughts on the Ashlee Simpson/SNL fallout…
Thoughts before the Sox won the World Series. Let me repeat. WON THE FREAKIN’ WORLD SERIES…
Finding old threads, letting go of tattering strings…
Examining the letters of Britney Spears…
Yea, this sucked like a Hoover…
Making a checklist for the next 12 months…
The joy and wonder of widescreen, high-def TV…
A little essay about the woman I love…
About finding life’s passions…
Regarding the Fox show “Who’s Your Daddy?”…
Figuring out ways to spend emotional capital…
“Boy” versus “guy” versus “man”…
My take on the best rock album in five years…
Why one needs a PH.D. to play today’s video games…
Figuring out this whole blogging thing…
Once again, I fix mine eye upon mine scalp…
On Boston accents…
I fought the Pilates, and the Pilates won…
Almost losing the site makes me rethink and re-evaluate…
Hey, I like really long songs. Like ‘em so much I put up two entries about them…
Why iPods fit into the urban lifestyle…
Figuring out the whole Larry Summers debacle at Harvard…
If I don’t drink for a while, then drink a lot, I end up challenging inanimate objects to duels…
This entry will be entered into any trial concerning my parents’ psychological warfare upon me as a child…
I love Jennifer Garner and all, but she’s never doing my band’s liner notes…
The one in which I detail how this country is losing its collective freakin’ mind…
Ideas for the worst possible movie-to-videogame translations…
Can iPods get me groupies? One can hope…
Girls in football jerseys and I give away my two books for free…
Soaking in the Patriots’ Super Bowl victory…
The start of the “17 Things About…” series…
Costco shouldn’t stock certain things…
Mmm…jailcams…
My analysis of “The Gates” in Central Park…
It’s official. I. Destroy. Everything…
Mama most definitely never said there’d be days like this…
When iPods go bad…
Thoughts on “Fever Pitch” and a certain 30-minute meal minx…
Where I cry like Demi Moore in “Ghost”…
Again, I cry. Lot of crying this month, apparently…
Breaking down the trailer for Lindsey Lohan’s “Herbie Rides Again”. Not as much weeping this time around, I promise…
I try to imagine why people Google the search phrases they do…
The world’s first, and probably last, blog entry written as the character of “Mansquito”…
Looking back, on my three-year blogaversary…blog anniversary…look, whatever…
How I stopped worrying and learned to love my cholesterol, or something like that…
Shoulda called this “17 Things About...Driving”. Oh well, happens…
Every major U2 release reviewed, spread over three entries…
An open letter priming my girlfriend for the life of a girl dating a Red Sox fan…
A little travelogue of Boston…
I did it all for the cookie…the, um, low-calorie, Atkins-approved cookie…
The Red Sox get their rings; statewide “It’s OK for Men to Cry” Day established…
I check in on my goals for the year…
The first and only Anglo-Saxon fisking, in two parts…
I try to answer some questions inspired by Google searches that reach my site…
I rewrite the lead paragraphs to Yahoo’s top headlines of the day…
My first, and possibly last, kickboxing class, stretched over two painful entries…
My take on women-on-women emotional violence…
Another entry in the “17 Things About…” series…
Checking in on why I write…
Fleshing out the themes found in “Delta”…
Inventing some potential compilations for the songs on my iPod…
A reunion sparks some reminiscing…
I look at “Lord of the Rings” and “Star Wars”. Some of you just got really excited reading that, the rest of you looked for something sharp…
Aaah, the Aerobie: a sign of simpler times, and, apparently, a sign of a 1500 word essay…
Don’t think much explanation is necessary…
Plumbing the depths of meaning in Gwen Stefani’s opus “Hollaback Girl”…
$40 earphones???? Bring me the head of Steve Jobs…
An entry in two parts, in which I rank movie moments in terms of applicability to real life. It’s much more fun than that sentence would indicate, trust me…
Another entry in two parts, in which I list some music to munch on…or listen to, whatever you prefer…
The history of my furniture, 1999-present…
Inserting myself into a few cinematic classics…
One of many moving stories as The Girl and I get a place together…
My relationship with EA MVP Baseball 2005…
The further emasculation of yours truly, as we paint the new apartment…
Greeting cards for adulterers? Oh jesum…
You guessed it, more painting stories…
A quick “primer”, in two parts, on how to paint. Get it? “Primer”? I am an amazingly funny Caucasian, it’s true...
Another two part story in which our heroes move from Jersey to Boston in a UHAUL, which in turn is ridden upon a wing and a prayer...
A ten-part saga detailing the life of one intern in a very peculiar office…
I run into a few technical difficulties with my wireless router…
Those lesbian swans get everyone in a tizzay in the hizzay…
Working through the first weeks of cohabitation with my girlfriend…
My yearly foray into this event…now with 100% more wet Kelly Clarkson…
My own private “Fever Pitch”…
What today’s available technology says about tomorrow’s media distribution models…
Thoughts on commuting and the (sub)/urban experience…
I take a step back to look at why I write…
Railing against some hateful messages from a local church billboard…
My take on MTV’s worst show…
I go outlet shopping, and somehow don’t burst into flames…
Another in a series of essays on the future of media distribution…
I discover the show “Firefly”…better late than never…
Bob Dylan inspires yet more thoughts from yours truly…
How the decentralization of attention is good for the movie and music industry…
Life’s like a rolling stone…
The extent to which I suck at video games knows no bounds…
Becoming a godfather for the second time…
I give Dunkin Donuts a piece of my mind…
I suggest a few DVD extras we’ll never, ever see…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…about the butterfly effect in life…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…about the effect of a certain bar in my life…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…about a few regrets I have accumulated…
Part of the “30 in 30” series… about what one needs versus what one wants…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…a poetic look at the last decade…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…my godson guest-blogs for the day…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…on mix tapes, mash-ups, and mix-ups…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…thinking about why I keep writing, and the artistic impulse in general…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…I dream of the fame and glory “30 in 30” will bring me in the future…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…I answer my critics; namely, those who wonder when I’m going to propose to The Girl already, damnit, cuz they aren’t getting any younger, ya know…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…Towing the line between comfort and growth…
Part of the “30 in 30” series…not the end, not by a long shot…
“What I did yesterday” entries suck, unless they involve hovercrafts and the cast of “Firefly”…
This is why I 1) never take vacation days, and 2) never do anything nice for women…
Nicole Richie gives me a few helpful hints to break my writer’s block…
Running diary of my first time seeing the New England Patriots play live…
A few tips for my fellow heterosexual penis owners…
A family photo op at Sears goes horribly wrong…
Running diary of my first sick day in months…
A final farewell to Johnny Damon…
Me and bellydancing…two great tastes that taste less than stellar together…
Trying to deal with being alone in the apartment for 10 days…
I imagine a throwdown between The Girl and a certain famous movie reviewer…
Letting my iPod do a little psychoanalysis on yours truly…
Analyzing the pros and cons of Netflix…
Four entries that detail the ongoing saga of dance lessons for The Girl and me. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.
My godson takes over the blog for a day…
Using the State of the Union address as a jumping off point for a little rant…
The songs that would make a currently “Best Of” double-CD for yours truly, spread over not one, but two entries…
My annual live rundown of the show…
My ongoing war with Netflix…
Me and the clogged sink: steel cage match…
My godson makes a triumphant return to blogging…
Thoughts inspired by my brother’s engagement…
Part, like, 26 in my war against Netflix…
People Google the strangest stuff…
Beer, billiards, and Hilary Swank’s “The Core”: just another night for yours truly…
My godson Charlie breaks things down, Huggies-style…
Taking stock of life as The Girl takes off for Europe…
Going from creature of habit to monster of habit…
Title says it all…
Living in (and not for) the city…
I tackle long-form narrative television shows…
I predict the season finales of several of television’s most popular programming…
My ill-fated attempt to see my friend’s art show…
My godson kicks it old-school…then falls over because he’s only 18 months old and constantly at war with gravity…
Learning to re-adapt to single living with The Girl’s in Italy for 5 weeks……
More coming, keep coming back!