June 2020 – Ryan Benbow's Blog

“Ryan Started the Fire”

June 10, 2020
by Ryan

Ladies and gentleman, I would like to wish you all a happy Song Parody Wednesday! I don’t always post song parodies on this blog, but when I do, it’s on a Wednesday!

Soon after I started this blog, I introduced my first two song parodies, Where’s the Toilet Paper Gone? and Westside. At the time, I thought those might be my only two that I would ever come up with. But now I have a third (and again maybe final) one to add to the list. This one, titled Ryan Started the Fire, is based on Billy Joel’s 1989 hit, We Didn’t Start the Fire.

Better Than Facebook

Indecisijigs

June 7, 2020
by Ryan

Let me start this entry by acknowledging that this is my second blog post of the weekend. Ever since I created this blog two months ago, I’ve tried to post on here at least once a week, although I am not willing to actually commit to that frequency. Recently, I went a whole two weeks without posting, so I thought I would make up for it here by offering a 2 for 1 weekend – two blog entries for the price of one! Yes, that statement is technically correct, since reading this blog is free, and since 2 x 0 = 0.

Now that I have that out of the way, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about something that has been on my mind for a long time that I would like for us to eradicate – the indecisijig. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, an indecisijig is the inadvertent dance two people sometimes perform when approaching each other. This occurs when both people try to sidestep the other to avoid a collision, yet end up moving in the same direction at the same time. Both of them might even react to this by simultaneously moving the other direction as well. This can lead to an awkward moment as they briefly try to figure out how to walk past each other. Personally, I find these annoying, and I thought I would use my platform here to try to put a stop to them.

TV Shows

“I Could Have Done Better”

June 6, 2020June 7, 2020
by Ryan

Over the past couple weeks, while societal tension and unrest have dominated the news during our coronavirus pandemic, graduation season has come and gone for most communities here in Indiana. Of course, graduations have looked different this year, as all the ceremonies I know about have either taken place virtually or been postponed. However, I wanted to take this opportunity to honor the graduates of this strange year by offering a graduation speech of my own. After all, I have a blog now, so I can do this.

So, let’s be honest. Unless you have given a graduation speech yourself (which I haven’t), how many of us who have graduated remember anything from the speeches? Mainly what I remember is being in extremely hot and crowded gyms for both my high school and college graduations, and how they both took forever to read through the list of names, but I don’t really remember much from any of the speeches. We may have heard some excerpts from “Oh, the places you’ll go!” by Dr. Seuss, or how this isn’t just the end, but a beginning of a new chapter. But for some reason, the graduation speech I do remember the most comes from a TV show. Because of course it does.

Month: <span>June 2020</span>

“Ryan Started the Fire”

Indecisijigs

“I Could Have Done Better”