About Me
Quiplash
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." —R.M. Rilke
- Ryan Schultz
- Member since 5-Oct-06
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Canada
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Hello, my name is Ryan Schultz, and my online handle is Quiplash, which is short for "quipster whiplash" (I am well known for my snappy comebacks). I'm a reference librarian, a queergeek blogger, a Flickr-inspired photographer, a slash fiction writer/artist, a choral singer, and an amateur bird flu researcher. I'm also a social networking software beta-test whore (which, of course, is why I am kicking the tires on VOX).
Right now I'm on a six-month study leave from my regular job, doing research for a book I plan to write on the queer history of my city, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
My personal blog is via TypePad at http://ryanschultz.ca, and depending on how much I like VOX, I may land up moving it over here. Or something.
Interests
- flickr,
- theatre,
- opera,
- photoshop,
- internet,
- madonna,
- books,
- chicago,
- ella fitzgerald,
- jazz,
- reading,
- brokeback mountain,
- billie holiday,
- tracy chapman,
- symphony,
- franz ferdinand,
- pet shop boys,
- fleetwood mac,
- elton john,
- chocolate,
- enya,
- eels,
- the beatles,
- abba,
- bryan adams,
- trick,
- classical music,
- sade,
- george michael,
- marvin gaye,
- libraries,
- long walks,
- patsy cline,
- amy grant,
- eva cassidy,
- cher,
- celine dion,
- neil diamond,
- michael mcdonald,
- moulin rouge,
- mediaeval baebes,
- monty python,
- bull durham,
- iron & wine,
- james taylor,
- erasure,
- electric light orchestra,
- gay history,
- baroque,
- information technology,
- cafés,
- dead poets society,
- yann tiersen,
- carpenters,
- last.fm,
- simon and garfunkel,
- enneagram,
- phil collins,
- iron and wine,
- the color purple,
- rockapella,
- eric clapton,
- american beauty,
- slash fiction,
- clueless,
- alison krauss,
- coffeehouses,
- simon & garfunkel,
- my fair lady,
- elvis presley,
- the sixth sense,
- the mavericks,
- ace of base,
- ladysmith black mambazo,
- eko,
- hedwig and the angry inch,
- myers-briggs,
- carole king,
- gordon lightfoot,
- beautiful thing,
- 13 going on 30,
- aretha franklin,
- slow dancing,
- kenny loggins,
- muriel's wedding,
- the lord of the rings trilogy,
- the piano,
- dionne warwick,
- al green,
- barbra streisand,
- gods and monsters,
- queer history,
- don henley,
- the temptations,
- world beat,
- jimmy somerville,
- l.a. confidential,
- lesbian history,
- céline dion,
- grey eye glances,
- the rainbow harmony project,
- fats domino,
- choral singing,
- lesbian biography,
- queer biography,
- fjedur,
- gay biography,
- angelique kidjo,
- lighthouse family,
- youssou n'dour,
- prospero's books,
- jesus of montreal,
- insideout a cappella,
- babette's feast,
- gay & lesbian choruses,
- the african queen,
- angélique kidjo,
- palast orchester mit max raabe,
- les nubians,
- diana ross and the supremes
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