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Ryan Louis

Why I Lost Fantasy Football: A Composition of Failure & Redemption in Eight Parts

Part I: 1989

9 min readJan 28, 2024

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Why I Lost Fantasy Football: A Composition of Failure & Redemption in Eight Parts

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Ryan Louis

How I Remember Movies | How Movies Remember (2018 Edition)

Every year, I do a little experiment. Amidst the hustle and bustle of Awards season, I take time to think about what was hustling &…

14 min readJan 15, 2024

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How I Remember Movies | How Movies Remember
(2018 Edition)

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Ryan Louis

7th-Circle Redemptions

In a speech — 20 years ago, my god! — to a small group of fellow college students, I remember making a strange comparison. To get the joke…

6 min readNov 2, 2023

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Ryan Louis

A Few Campy Horror Fantasies

Look. I’m sorry, but I hate the name Jason.

8 min readJun 25, 2023

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Ryan Louis

Trapped in a -Scape

The prefix “scape-” comes from an archaic standalone word (scape): an old slang, short for “escape.” Its most common usage these days is in…

4 min readApr 3, 2023

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Ryan Louis

They’re Definitely NOT Aliens

No matter how you say it, admitting that you’ve seen something — a series of directed and/or moving lights, shining down from the sky, for…

6 min readFeb 15, 2023

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Ryan Louis

Looking Back at One Year can Turn into Five: 2022 → 2017

Emerging from Review Season and heading face-first into Award Season, we are inundated. The surfeit of year-end countdowns is substantial.

8 min readJan 25, 2023

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Ryan Louis

Dedicated to those five beautiful souls killed at Club Q

I got yelled at a few minutes ago. I was walking down 16th street, just having been boosted and de-flued. I had paused for a moment —…

8 min readNov 23, 2022

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Ryan Louis

Memory is the Lost Cause

1.

6 min readJun 18, 2022

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Ryan Louis

Toponyms and Trouble

In 1963, then-Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall recommended that place-names with “N*****” be replaced. The affected places weren’t…

2 min readJan 30, 2022

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Ryan Louis

Ryan Louis

I’m a mythos-buster; trying to take nostalgia down a peg. Mostly, I’m nomadic: living, teaching, basking in the comeliness of the world.

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