Ryan Conklin

Ryan Conklin Engaged

2011-07-25T19:19:00.017-04:00

A public announcement published in The Gettysburg Times stated that Ryan Conklin is engaged to be married. Here is the link to the engagement notice: http://bit.ly/qJPhww. The notice states that Ryan is currently working at NBC Olympics in Stamford, CT, and that a Fall, 2012, wedding is planned.

Ryan Conklin Helps Start Veterans Group

2011-03-15T19:23:00.003-04:00

When one of his fellow students at Temple University sought to start the first student veterans group at the school, Ryan Conklin joined in to help make it happen. A group of students including Ryan worked together to form the group that became the Temple Veterans Association. Conklin with another student drafted the group's constitution, which Conklin and three others signed to become the

Ryan Conklin On Being On The Real World

2011-03-14T02:30:00.001-04:00

In a story about the start of the 25th season of The Real World (MTV's 'The Real World' launches its 25th season! Crazy!), the LA Times included quotes from various RW alums on the longevity of the series and about their own experiences from being connected with the show. In the article, Ryan Conklin acknowledged that he will always be known as someone who was in the cast, saying, "I will

New Ryan Conklin Faces of War Video

2011-02-10T21:22:00.003-05:00

Below is the new video that the group Hope's Voice uses to market Ryan Conklin as a speaker for their Faces of War lecture series. Intermingled with photos from Ryan's first tour in Iraq are clips of video of Ryan speaking about being on patrol with IEDs exploding, hearing about the death by sniper of fellow soldier Andrew Kemple, and his and other soldiers' difficulties in coping with the

An Angel From Hell In Paperback

2010-11-21T02:24:00.006-05:00

Ryan A. Conklin's book An Angel From Hell will be available in a paperback format on April 5, 2011. It has previously been available in hardback and as a e-book and audiobook. The book is the author's story of his year in Iraq, highlighting the unsettling situations he experienced there, his complaints about Army practices and personnel, and his avoidance of injuries by fatefully never being in

Aaron Returns Home

2010-09-20T01:05:00.003-04:00

The website for the Gettysburg Fire Department has a post about the return of Ryan Conklin's brother Aaron Conklin from Iraq. (Click on thumbnail at right for link.) It mentions that in August, 2010, members of the fire department welcomed Aaron home (calling him "Hollywood"). It also mentioned that he had recently become engaged to his girlfriend. Previously, Aaron had revealed in an article

The End?

2010-09-11T22:52:00.005-04:00

As some of you who I have communicated with online know, I decided last month to wrap up this blog and finish posting whatever info I had and then move on. I had some old trivia stuff off the internet about young Ryan that some of you brought to my attention, and I posted that (except for the zouave thing - you can look that up yourself). The only other stuff available was the remaining "Real

Ryan Conklin Laughs At Dental Problem

2010-09-03T21:24:00.000-04:00

This video from Chet Cannon shows Ryan Conklin during the time of The Real World Brooklyn. It was recorded during the tour of Brooklyn that the cast did on their first full day of taping (as seen in episode one). In the video, Ryan asked a local man for information about a restaurant. At the end of the encounter, the man had a terribly embarrassing situation in which his apparently substandard

Ryan Conklin The Historian

2010-09-02T02:08:00.009-04:00

website thumbnail In the MTV special Return to Duty, it was mentioned that Ryan Conklin was interested in the Civil War and did re-enacting . So, those of you who went to Google and looked up "Ryan Conklin Civil War" saw in the top results that Ryan had created a website about a Civil War regiment that he had researched. For your convenience, it can summarized that the site is about the 18th

Ryan Conklin In Gods And Generals

2010-09-01T02:00:00.014-04:00

16 year old Ryan as little VMI cadet (center) Before Ryan Conklin was on the small screen in The Real World Brooklyn, he was on the big screen in the movie Gods And Generals. While RW was on, someone posted on a message board that Ryan was an "extra" in the movie, cast to play a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute at the start of the American Civil War. This connects with Ryan's interest

My Boy Lollipop (Ryan Conklin)

2010-08-06T18:34:00.000-04:00

A cute video of Ryan Conklin images.

Ryan Conklin in Walk Away

2010-07-25T00:25:00.003-04:00

As seen in episode eight of The Real World Brooklyn, Ryan Conklin took classes at the New York Film Academy, studying filmmaking. There he made three student films as part of the program. These films were done with the help of fellow students, who were put in groups to make each of the films that all of the students had to do. In episode eight, the making of Ryan's No More Tomorrow was shown,

New Ryan-Conklin Pages

2010-06-28T12:43:00.000-04:00

During my trip to New York City to see Ryan Conklin in person, I made a pilgrimage to only one of the Ryan Conklin/Real World Brooklyn sites: the Creperie eatery on the Lower East Side. Ryan had said that eating there (many times) was one of his favorite things about his time on the show. To go there, I had to look it up and figure out where its location is. It made me think that it would be

The Band Conklin

2010-06-11T03:16:00.008-04:00

thumbnail of Ryan MySpace image Five guys in the Crawford County, Ohio, area were influenced enough by the story of Ryan Conklin, as seen on The Real World Brooklyn, that they renamed their band in 2009 to be "Conklin". Two of the band members are brothers and they have an older brother in the Marines who is scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan later this year. The younger brothers look up

Top Notch Ryan Conklin

2010-06-07T17:12:00.009-04:00

website image thumbnail As fans of Ryan Conklin know, long before he took film classes during the taping of The Real World Brooklyn, Ryan was part of a student video club in high school known as TopNotch Productions. He wore a shirt with the club's name during the show and he mentioned its name on YouTube. This group made many videos during Ryan's junior and senior year at Gettysburg Area High

The Admirable Ryan Conklin

2010-06-04T22:08:00.008-04:00

Fans of Ryan Conklin should know that he doesn't ever want to be referred to as a "hero". He uses the definition that would apply to someone that runs into a burning building to save a baby, so that's fair enough. However, the word hero is also commonly used to mean someone who is admired and revered, someone who is looked up to for whatever reason. Unfortunately (and strangely), English doesn't

Were Thine That Special Face

2010-06-02T21:46:00.010-04:00

Facebook image thumbnail So I was looking at a website called Moonjee, and I see it purports to have a photo analyzer that can determine the personality of a person by examining a photo of them. I decided to try out the function and see what it would say about Ryan Conklin. I used three different images, and perhaps not surprisingly, got three different responses. I show a thumbnail of one of

Ryan A. Conklin On Broadway

2010-05-27T23:00:00.014-04:00

On May 27th, 2010, Ryan A. Conklin spoke at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on 82nd & Broadway in New York City. He appeared at an author event to discuss his book, An Angel From Hell, as well as his experiences being an American soldier in Iraq. The event began with an introduction, which was necessarily laudatory, from the B&N store person. On the dais, Ryan modestly sat looking down and away

Ask Ryan Conklin Anything (La Troisième Partie)

2010-05-18T23:15:00.009-04:00

Ryan Conklin has posted on YouTube the third installment of his popular video series, "Ask Ryan Anything". In the videos, Ryan responds to specific questions sent to him by the inquiring public. In part three, the focus of the questions was on girls and sports, with a short side trip into the twilight zone of fringe militia organizations. The first question was whether Ryan is a fan of

Ryan Conklin Recites Hip Hop

2010-05-11T11:23:00.003-04:00

In his blazer and khakis, sitting before the fireplace and holding a glass of wine, Ryan Conklin recited lyrics from a collection of favorite hip hop songs (see video below). Ryan elegantly uttered the strange and sometimes off-color material, sharing its arcane messages with his audience. He looked strikingly debonair with his clothing and well groomed facial hair, even as he bleeped out the

Ryan Conklin At GI Film Festival 2010

2010-05-10T17:30:00.000-04:00

Ryan A. Conklin will be a participant at the 2010 GI Film Festival in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates "the successes and sacrifices of the American military through the medium of film." Ryan will be a guest blogger for GIFF, covering the events during the run of the festival (May 11-16). Located at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, GIFF "will present films from new and

An Angel From Hell Review

2010-05-04T23:27:00.013-04:00

An Angel From Hell by Ryan A. Conklin - Review Professional reviews of the book are practically non-existent, as it appears that reviewers who know good books don't take the book seriously. Comments about it can be found on Amazon and other book sites, and while fans and friends of Ryan have dutifully done their part by pumping up the five star ratings, not everyone has been so kind. The

More Ryan Conklin On Radio Times

2010-04-26T00:09:00.002-04:00

This is part 2 of the summary of the discussion that Ryan Conklin had on the "Radio Times" show on station WHYY. Ryan was a guest on the show to promote his book, An Angel From Hell. In this part, Ryan talks about his second deployment to Iraq. On the show, Ryan explained about the Individual Ready Reserve, and how he came to be in it. When he enlisted in the Army, he contracted for an eight

Ryan Conklin On Radio Times

2010-04-18T23:59:00.005-04:00

AAFH image thumbnail On April 14, 2010, as part of the promotion of his book An Angel From Hell, Ryan A. Conklin was a guest on radio station WHYY's program "Radio Times". The host Marty Moss-Coane spoke to Ryan (and his mother) about Ryan's experiences with the Army, deployment to Iraq, return to civilian life, and subsequent redeployment back to Iraq. The first topic was the path of Ryan

Ryan Conklin On Morning Joe

2010-04-12T21:53:00.005-04:00

On April 12th, 2010, Ryan A. Conklin was a guest on the the Morning Joe show on MSNBC. Ryan spoke with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, and Mike Barnicle about his new book, An Angel From Hell, and his experience as an infantryman in Iraq. The segment started with a clip from The Real World Brooklyn, in which Ryan Conklin got the fateful phone call from his brother Aaron