Skip To Main Content
Kevin Ryan on Muck Rack

Kevin Ryan

Tulsa
As seen in: Dumpster Fire with Bridget Phetasy, Medium, The Independent (UK), Substack, True Thirty, Law.com, Blaze Media, Return, The Diplomat Magazine, The Indianapolis Star, Dallas Observer and
Author of Sunbather a.co/d/0fiZEPlQ Journalist, podcaster, producer. @phetasydf @BridgetPhetasy
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Kevin

Contact Kevin, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

A Short Film To Cure Brain Rot + Phetasy Digest

|
By Kevin Ryan
| Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy
IT’S HAPPENING!!!! Yes, I’m writing a book. It’s been a long time coming and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this secret project I’ve been working on, THE LEFT CAN’T MEME: How the Funny People Became the Fun Police. Did any of you guys subscribe to Wholphin back in the day? It was a DVD magazine released by McSweeney’s. It launched in 2005 and ran quarterly, for 15 issues. The last issue came out in 2012, right as DVD players were gaining speed in the death spiral to obsolescence.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

AOC Deserves Motherhood + Phetasy Digest

|
By Kevin Ryan
| Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy
This week I attended a party at a cat diner. At the back, there was a many-windowed room full of furniture and toy mice and 20-or-so cats, who were mostly hissing or comatose. In the afternoon light, surrounded by terrible lions, I thought about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This was a cruel week for maternity—the Lindsay Clancy trial, the late-term abortion bill in Massachusetts, and the clip of AOC freezing her eggs. She came into my mind at the cat cafe because I was there with my kids.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

What Is A Normie? + Phetasy Digest

|
By Kevin Ryan
| Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy
Bridget has designated this the Summer of the Normie. In the realm of internet slang, “Normie” is an insult for people who lack individuality and accept whatever’s mainstream. The term often has a disparaging connotation. But the Summer of the Normie challenges that notion. The Normie spirit has actually been refreshing and transformative lately. That’s partly because popular culture is right more often than we assume. If Normies are so vapid, why is most of what they do so much fun?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 448 licensed articles (449 Total)