Marin is Pretty

Sometimes we go to Marin when we want to escape the clouds.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rionrinker/sets/72157622088674588/

Gurls!

Maria-Tori-Soumeya-Lily

Awesome Tattoo

This is a drawing of a tattoo i saw on the arm of some dude. I added the smiley face for dramatic purposes. I wanna saw there was a santa hat in the mix, but I can't really say for sure.

Fucking Morrissey!!!

What is life if you can't have things to look forward to!

Morrissey cancelled his show at the Paramount Theater in Oakland!

..And I don't even get my fucking ticketmaster surcharge back.

Sincerely Annoyed

The Ross Sisters

Holy Taco!

Teenage Girl!

I Draw like one.

French Fried Cigarettes

Yes!

Check us out!

We were young and full of life!

www.myspace.com/frenchfriedcigarettes

smoking biggaretes, stroking chickens, and the bad boy club

friday night in the east bay-enuff said-chillin with the FFC crew and moishe.

2nd Post for Today-Thoughts for a Friday

Sometimes I get really frustrated when I am at work and am asked to do work. It's like a burden that I don't want to deal with. Especially when I am really into surfing the net or am trying to win an ebay bid. Below is my reaction.

Rats in Space

A few weeks ago a I got super stoney from eating some hash chocolate with a few friends. Now I usually don't really partake-not to say i'm against it-I just don't because of the pure stoneyness factor. Anyways, this was some wavy gravy style hash chocolate becuase I was just lit. I felt.......... pure amazingness. We then got it in our heads that we would call all the video stores in SF and ask about a certain movie and if they had it.

...ring.....ring.....
Me: Hello do you have that one movie with the........rat in it?
Store: Rat, hmmn? Ratatouille? Fivel Goes West? Despereaux?
Me: No, none of those.
Store: Can you elaborate?
Me: You know the movie with the rat in it where they go to space starring Tom Hanks.
Store: Tom Hanks? Apollo 13? Is this live action or a cartoon?
Me: It's definately live action. It co-stars Samuel L. Jackson.
Store:Is this a prank? (At this point i usually lost it and had to hang up)

I don't remember exactly what stores we called, but I do remember that Lost Weekend definately did not play along.

In the end, it makes me think back to when I was in middle school and a prank call was just a part of growing up in a small town, having nothing much to do and being a boy. This is of course pre nudie mags, cigars in the creek,loud music and baggy pants.

Here is my drawing for the cover of "Rats in Space"

Yes weak can do it too!

First of all, sorry to all my avid readers for my lack of posts. I have not been too busy, so I have no excuses. I honestly think that there is no point in blogging for the sake of blogging. Do you want to hear about how i painted some cabinets the other day? gold as a matter of fact. Or how about how i have to work at 7:30am tommorow? Lame! Or what about how my mom constantly calls me about coming to visit her all the time? Kinda cool! Or that i've been slightly obsessed with ebay? I've been buying knives and records lately. I'm also looking for a new camera-possibly the G10 Canon Powershot. And that I seem to have lost the charger and power chords to both my video camera and my scanner-Radio Shack or Intranet? Or that the neighbor really needs to clean the backyard so that I can really bbq the fuck out of it this summer. Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico in June! 2009 rock hard abs contest-with myself as the only contestant! Excersizing really does make you feel better-honestly.

Anyways, those are the random thoughts that are sinking around in my head at this point right. Once again I will be back when I have something funny or interesting to say!

Ukiahaiku

When You are Engulfed in Wigfield

Ok, I have to admit David Sedaris is capital H Hilarious. This collection of short stories entitled When You are Engulfed in Flames is absolutely a laugh riot. Inside you will travel with Sedaris through his various awkward life situations and happinstanes. Honestly, why can't I be friends with this guy..........or this family. Which brings me to the book Wigfield co-written by Amy Sedaris. I'm not sure how I feel about the cover, but if it's anything like Strangers With Candy then I am DOWN!

Sad Days Are Bound to Happen

After almost 5 years of loyal service my trusty, yet thick and heavy ipod has taken a turn for worse. It all happened this morning when I plugged it in to charge. My computer didn't seem to read it and there seemed to be nothing on it. This made me sad and speachless. I felt I was staring at the blank canvas of a painting I had been working on for five years. I am sad that I have lost songs that I might not be able to retrieve again. I guess in the end everyone needs to be shot down every once in a while to know that they are still alive and not invincible.

P.S. I am too stubborn to buy a new ipod and will bleed every last drop out of this baby!

Remember when things were built to last?

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid died 26 years ago to the day on her birthday. Go and rent one of her movies and then you'll see why men went crazy for her back in the day.

She was also the topic of a Woody Guthrie song entitled "Ingrid Bergman", which was composed in the year 1950. At the request of Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie, English folk-rocker Billy Bragg and Wilco set these lyrics to music and placed the song on the 1998 hit album "Mermaid Avenue."

Seth

You left you shorts on the couch!

Yeah, I know it's been awhile, but i've been busy!

Alaksa 2008! Wow, what a trip. Moose, fish, the great outdoors and getting drunk with Jonathan Hillstrand.



Jonathan is a star on the television show "The Deadliest Catch." He is also one of the 2 Captains on the Time Bandit.............and yes, he is one baad-ass duude!



Here's my dad and I in front of the Salty Dawg Saloon(the coolest bar ever).

They say if either a bullfrog could sing or if corn could moan they would sound like Greg Brown. Cheers to a wonderful night at the Great American Music Hall.

Save Montgomery Woods

Please cross your fingers that Montgomery Woods will be saved from the fires a blazin in Northern California. The Montgomery Woods State Park houses the largest trees in the world, some up to 370 ft tall. This has always been one of my favorite places to go. My mom use to take my brother and I when we were kids. Let's hope that someday I will be able to bring my kids(if i have them).

In addition, there are also 1000 plus other fires up in Northern California!

Has anyone ever heard of control burns?

NICKNAMES

A Chronological LIST

RyRy
Ryan Stinker
Rink
Rinky
Rinkbone 666
Rusty
Rion
Little Morrissey
Little R
Drinker
Sir Saturday Night his Royal Magistrate
The Sweet Prince
Prince of Pacific Ave.
Double R
Ry Guy
Reek
Nutters

A STORY

1999, Santa Cruz, 102 Otis St.

This one day I was sweeping the front steps of my place when a bearded fellow walked up and started talking to me. “Rusty,” he said! “Rusty,” what’s up man? I haven’t seen you in days. Where ya been? “Um, around, I’m just kicking it on my day off.” Under my breath I whispered “Do we know each other?”
On and on in a stoney daze he spoke to me as if we were the bestest of buds. “You gonna help me fix up the van later? You helping me sell on Saturday at the flea market? Let’s go on a bike ride later,” he rambled. I nodded my head in disbelief as he went on and on about who knows what. As he left, I waived, said goodbye and figured I never see him again.
The next day at work and almost religiously for six years I saw this man. Sometimes he would remember me and sometimes he wouldn’t. We never spoke of our first interaction, but sometimes I remember it, vividly and as almost a welcoming to the beautifully quirky town of Santa Cruz.