Ryan J. Allen

You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: If you could have a summer home anywhere, where would you want it to be?

Oh, you mean my beach house? It’s on top of a mountain.

You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: You know that episode of Friends where we find out Ross [...]

You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: What movie which never got made would you most like to see?

I skipped answering this question earlier to try and give myself time to settle the barrage of thoughts that were going through my mind with respect to this question. Ultimately I have concluded that [...]

You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: What was the last book (fiction only, no reference books) that you read?

The latest fiction book I have read, and am, in fact, currently reading, is American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures [...]

You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: Who is your favourite character on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer? You’re allowed to split this up into pre-season 6 and post-season 6 if desired.

This question is an easy one for me. I only really know of one character on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and it [...]

This morning I started a post about how stale my blog has been over the last 12 days. I started a post about how I’ve been through this cycle before, and it has been posted about before, with the explanation that I just didn’t have anything to post about.

Enter You Look Like A Nail. [...]

I think what I’ll do is keep the AR posts on the front page for a couple of days before they go exclusively in the AR section.

Alex A. of Kingston/Toronto, ON asks: How do you want to spend your retirement?

This is one of those questions that I had given zero thought until it was posed. [...]

I’m going to play a little bit of catch up with the Ask Ryan questions, seeing as there’s nothing else to do at 3 a.m.

Amy L. of Toronto, ON asks: Ryan, what is your favorite Family Guy quote?

I cannot pick a favourite. Really, I can’t. I have an appreciation for every episode and [...]

I had the idea to start an FAQ sort of section to the blog recently but I completely forgot about it until Alex’s comment to my non-update. Don’t worry–you haven’t been missing out on this section for very long (recently in this case means the past couple of days). I’ll answer the two [...]