Ryan j Budke

I just got done watching a documentary about the drug (specifically cocaine) traffic in Miami in the late 70’s/early 80’s called Cocaine Cowboys. It’s absolutely mind-boggling the impact that the drug had on the city. There was so much cash involved that banks in MIami went from dealing with on average $12 million annually with the federal reserve, to $600 million cash. A 5000% increase!! Whole sections of the town’s business survived on not only the money itself, but the type of clients that the money brought in, so when the trade went bust, so did the town.

The face of Miami was literally changed by cocaine. They suspect that an insane 85% of urban development was in some way shape or form funded by drug money during the city’s rapid 1980’s growth.

I’m watching Evan Almighty for the first time. I heard this was a bad movie, but I was just not prepared for how bad it was going to be. I was going to write more on how Wanda Sykes is just playing a parody of herself, Steve Carrell is being typecast beyond belief, even Lauren Graham is completely phoning it in, but I can’t, it’s exhaustingly bad. This is just awful and it’s the most expensive comedy ever made.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been busier than ever. In a totally good way, though. There’s amazing amazing things coming up over at Propeller that I can’t talk about just yet, but we’re about to have the AOL spotlight shown on us in a way that we’ve been working towards for well over a year. I consider myself extremely lucky to lead up the Scout team over there. They’re such an awesome group, and they continue to astound me with their passion, experience and knowledge everyday.

On top of the Propeller stuff though I’ve started a project on the side that while I can’t share just yet, will absolutely blow people’s minds. It’s something that is very personal and that I am so so proud of, it’s hard to put into words. I can’t wait to show it off to the world.

So this all means that I’m pretty much working around the clock. Luckily it’s work that I really enjoy. Til next time.