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Hey, my halloween was kicking (and punching). Wanna see some pictures? sure ya do. http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/halloween.html Yup. Friday night was the pub crawl in Des Moines. Hit up Royal Mile, Hessian house, a few others I don't know the name. It was awesome. So many great costumes out there. I went as Mario and Marieta was gonna go as Princess Toadstool but she couldn't find a dress that worked well enough so she just went as a Hoola girl instead. It was a good time. I will never look at the burger king the same way again. Saturday was cool too. I showed Marieta the old neighborhood and dinner we hit up cheddars. Chicken fingers, Cherry coke, and a cookie monster. A page ripped straight from the P@ history books. We went to a couple haunted houses after that. Met with Chris and Lisa to check out Linns haunted house over by North High School. A lot of crawl around. It was pretty good. I was the guy walking (or crawling) in front of the group. I had to learn not to...

So I was up pretty late last night and today I am crazilly (that can't be a word) lathargic (sp?). It's all good however. My dress shoes arrived today that I bought on Sunday. They are brown and go with my new suit. So I put it all on to try it out. The suit looks great. God I love this suit and I'm trying to figure out which tie works the best. So... here's a link to check out the suit (and ties) http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/suitsvote.jpg I realize the numbers look pretty shotty but who cares. I did it in paint... BLAH! What else is going on? OOH! Friday is a halloween pub crawl on Court Ave. It is gonna be awesome. Marieta, Jordan, Bethany, Chris, and Lisa. I had so much fun with all of them last weekend, this weekend is gonna be twice as cool because we'll be dressed up like idiots and rockin around Des Moines. I would tell you what I am gonna be but that would ruin the surprise and pictures I hope to take. I'll tell you what everyone is gonna be. Jord...

Friday: Went out with Marieta to the Wild Rose Film Festival in Des MOines. Watched a bunch of short films. God there were some horrible duds. the biggest was this flaming terd made by some valley students. Come on kids, make us alum proud and make some quality films. The feature of the evening was Boone Style, a film about a dysfunctional des moines family's reunion. Really good. I was impressed and inspired. Next year, Stunt Bunny productions will have a film in that festival. You should have seen some of the crap people turned in. After the festival, I held a film festival of my own. Showing Marieta some of our classic gems: Hardcore Scoot, Smashing shit, The Orb, ISUpdate, Cardboard Team. I can't find my Midwest $$. If you have a copy, hook me up. How can I live without my masterpiece. Around 1145 we headed over to central campus to check out the homecoming fireworks. Would you believe that I have never been in Ames for homecoming weekend. We missed the final firework. From...

I love thursdays. I have four classes but we never do anything in them on thursday. Discussion in my 930, movie watching at 11, someone gives a presentation at 1240, and at 3 it's note taking. So easy, maybe too easy. My 930 class always gets out early. Without a doubt, I can expect to be out of there within an hour. Today we talked about music videos and the commercialization of music. Basically the old question: Is there any true art? or is it all commercial attempts to get money and fame. It was a good time. I didn't say much, because I used to be a music nazi. I love hearing people say things like "I think Dave Matthews Band is in it for the music." I think he was joking but I don't know. Who am I to knock DMB, I mean they have huge crowds and a couple of their songs are alright... I'm breaking in a new pair of jeans today. It feels pretty good. I don't know why I'm telling you this... maybe it's because I have nothing do for 20 minutes. Ah sc...

Man, long long day. Up at 8, class, a TON of golf with Jordan, and than an evening with Bethany, JOrdan, and Marieta. Ladies and Gents, today was a classic. Sometimes you go to bed and you just think "yeah, that went pretty well." You know, I was tired 20 minutes ago but something has woken me up... Thanks.

Well the bad news is my favorite pair of shorts no longer fits. I mean I can use a belt to make it fit but if I just put it on they fall right off. Don't laugh people, this is a big deal. I have worn these shorts since junior year of high school. I am not giving up these shorts. I mean it's missing buttons, a couple of the zippers for the cargo pockets are broken, and there are several holes in them, but I am nothing if not loyal. Even to my clothes. Speaking of which; the good news! My Rx Bandits shirt, I that bought at their show two summers ago, fits again. Not only does it fit but there is actually a bunch of loose space. Could it be I have lost this much weight? I have this side by side photo of me topless from two years ago and a picture of me topless from 2 weeks ago. There is a huge difference. It's almost ridiculous. From 235 to 192. That's a lot of weight in two years. Pretty crazy. Soon my goal of being able to rock out on guitar with my shirt off will be com...

So, I'm not a kate holmes fan. It's probably the fact she was on Dawson's Creek and is involved with Tom Cruise (nothing against Tom, but this relationship seems a little ridiculous). However, Pieces of April is a great movie. Let me bring you up speed; April (Kate Holmes) lives in New York City and invites her family up to visit her for Thanksgiving. She is kind of the black sheep of a disfunctional family and as the story is revealed you get the feeling that Dinner is going to be a disaster. I highly reccommend this movie. It's crazy, got some good characters and it's independent. I just found out there is an independent film festival in Des Moinse next weekend. It's called the Wild Rose Film Fest. I really really want to check it out. I have never been to a film festival, I mean it's in des moines so no great expectations or anythign but I'm hopeful it's cool. I dont ahve any particulars on it but damn it I want to go. I'm gonna find out about...

Okay so yesterday I picked up a couple of preseason season magazines on NCAA basketball. I can't wait, it's by far my favorite sports league around; however, these magazines have no idea whats up. I mean they have plenty of info on the teams that always kill like Duke, Arizona, Kentucky and the like but Smith & Street picked ISU to be preseason ranked 12 (which is way too optimistic) and AThlon picked us as a one & done NCAA tourney team (which I hope isn't the case). Athlon picked UNI to be a sweet 16 team. What kind of horse shit is that? I mean we may have no veteran front court but give us a little more respect than UNI. Just sick man, sick. Thank god the Yankees are out of the playoff picture. 6 months of the year all we hear from ESPN is Yankees this, Yankees that... BOOOO!!!!! I hate the Yankees. I think MLB has a lot of crap to work out. Until they get a hard salary cap established, like the NBA, Baseball will always be frought with teams no one cares about ...

Good lord, who do I have to screw to get my voice back. My voice is still low and grumblely from this weekend. Good lord. I don't have anythign to talk about besides the fact I slept for like 10 hours last night (I slept for 12 hours thursday, friday, and saturday nights combined.) That felt damn good. Something I did want to mention is another crazy coincidence. So last week I had to do this presentation with Corey, Adam, and Kyle. I decided we needed to do some videotaping of candid camera shit around campus, it was hilarious. But I want to get at are these little intros we filmed. I dressed up like this famous prof E.T. Hall and acted like a complete fool. It was a huge hit. I got a few remarks from people who said "why aren't you a theatre major" and "you should go into acting." I thought alright, thanks for the nice comments. Well than this weekend rolls around, It was fun as hell, and a few of the older peoples around said I should go into acting o...

Oh hell yes, Here are the pictures: Okay so I didn't take any pictures till the day of the wedding. There were cameras flying everywhere and I will probably get copies of those pictures but here are the few I took. First there are some pictures from the chapel. NO pictures of the service of course because I was on stage doing my duties as best man. http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/jordanbethanygarden.jpg http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/jordanmomleigh.jpg http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/parkboys.jpg So we took a bunch of professional pictures, inside/outside, blah, bleh. After the pictures us boys went to the park and chilled out. I swung on the swings and tire swing by the tire swing just about made me puke. http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/jordanbethanyreception.jpg http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/jorbethdance1.jpg http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/jorbethdance2.jpg Here are some cute pictures of Jordan and Bethany. I think these are the only serious ...

Okay so the weekend started on Thursday but damn it man, I HAD FUN!!!! Holy crap, in case you don't know Jordan and Bethany (two of my best friends in the whole world) got married this yesterday and starting on Thursday night we all hung out and rocked the Des Moines area like nobodies business. Thursday was the rehearsal dinner and what not. A little stilted. People were just getting to know/meet each other. I had met some of the brides maids before but only friends with one. I was joking like nobodies business from the word go on Thursday. Keith, Scottie, Jordan, Jeremy, and Matt... what a combo. The rehearsal dinner was fun, great food and what not. Afterwords we went to a bar in Ankeny and took it over in our suits and ties. Great time. I stayed in Ames on Thursday. Friday was another party with family and friends. The day started with another golf outing. I didn't shoot horribly, 57 on the front nine on a tough course I had never played before. I wanted to play the back n...

Hells yeah. This year the classic features Michigan State vs. Boston College and Kansas vs. St. Joes. Hell yeah. Last year it featured Syracuse vs. Oklahoma State and someone else I don't remember. That was a good game last year. Tense the whole way. No big break aways or comebacks. I hope That MSU game is good. I am hoping MSU and Illinois fight it out for the big ten. I am not sure Illinois has the players to do it but Brown is still the man so we'll see. Today is gonnna be a beast. I have this debate in the morning (natural theology vs. quantum physics, not as bad as it sounds), a 5 pager to write for tomorrow, and after that Corey, Kyle, Bosman, and I are spending the whole day filming candid camera shit all around campus. It's gonna be pretty sweeet. I plan to dress up like Harold Ramis from GhostBusters and narrate the will shindig. I really have nothing to say but when i saw that Jimmy V Classic. I just had to say something. MSU is a cool school. All around too, not ...

Have you degraded or fotgot us? Oh yes, Sufjan Stevens has my heart. eh... wait... PICTURES! Yes that's right, I promised pictures. I don't know if this monkey allows HTML but we're about to find out. Heres a picture of my God-son and I from this past weekend. http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/willandpat.jpg Heres a picture of me and this sweet suit I picked up this weekend http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/suit.jpg Heres a picture of the sport coat I picked up with the suit http://www.geocities.com/ryckblase/sportcoart.jpg Pictures are fun. Alright, I really don't have anything new to say besides the fact, my computer appears to be running nice.

Alright, nobody go crazy but I'm pretty sure my computer is gonna be alright. I took it into Durham to see if they could help me and of course they gave me an idea but they gave it to me in the normal tech loser fashion. Basically they made me feel like a gorilla who doesn't understand what a computer is. Damn you punks, just help me out. Anyways, it's looking pretty good. Cross your fingers. Ah the weekend. Went by pretty quick and was pretty cool. I hung with my fam in chi-land. Saw my god-son and went to my cousins volleyball game. She is pretty good. I love volleyball so it was cool. Well I am at the library and meeting with my group in one minute so I gotta say later. HOWEVER! As I say farewell let me just say Sufjan Stevens "Come and Feel the Illinoise" is my album of the year thus far. I got it a bit ago but now I can't stop spinning it. I promise if you pick it up you will not be disappointed. Alright minions, next time we talk, or you read, it will b...