Posts by Ryan Livingston

This is the saga of a hapless man’s return to college, in the vain attempt to succeed in life; written procrastinatedly, as would be expected from a college student. As you may or may not know, I have returned to the realm of college life; partially by choice and partially not. My highly skilled hide…

Last Wednesday the face of television was changed forever. Well, mine was anyway, as I had put my shoe through it. Yep, you guessed it; Fox had another brilliant idea in the form of Man vs. Beast, a show that pitted animals against vegetables on a network made by people with calcium deposits in the…

Well, everybody should be over their New Years hangovers, and resolutions should have been shredded faster than… never mind, Enron jokes were so last year. So lets get down to brass tacks (what does that mean anyways?): Predictions for the new year! I say it’s gonna stink and no good is going to come from…

It has become brutally apparent now (like it hadn’t before, right?) that network television, along with its bastard cousin – cable, is run by the most incompetent scatter, nay, lame brained people in all of the Universe and beyond. And I shall prove it in the coming weeks. For my first tirade, I begin with…

Yesterday was Thanksgiving; the day to give thanks, hence the name. We are to be thankful for what we have. However, there are those out there who A) believe that all they have is a given or, B) that there is nothing to be thankful for. Well, have I got a short tale for you:…

Or, Suing the Fat Recently, the famed burger stand chain known as McDonald’s has come under fire and is being sued by at least nine families claiming that the food caused serious health problems in their children. Leading the lawsuit is Gregory Rhymes, a fifteen year old who, “used to eat a burger, fries and…

Oddly enough there are those out there who follow these pages and wonder where is it all going. I include myself in this noble few. I have made it an outlet for comics and the odd review of past and present, but something is missing. I can’t let a killer title like New World Otter…

It is amazing the education one can receive just while riding the bus. Prior to yesterday, I had no idea that the capital of Hungry was the leading tourist center of Europe. Not that I really gave a fig. Apparently theater, music and the arts all thrive there. But you wouldn’t want to live there;…

A few days ago, that is to say a few months ago, I noticed something about “people” that made me wonder: “who is really insane?” I was using NYC mass transit (voted number one on the Top 100 places to have a revelation), this time on a fabled Staten Island bus. On said bus a…