Baron von Awesome
ryanilbasso.bsky.social
Baron von Awesome
@ryanilbasso.bsky.social
I am here - life - to learn and share as much as possible.

I'm not interested in monetizing or "branding" myself on SM. As John Lydon once said (paraphrasing), "You can't make me. I AM me."

Polymath-ish. Often busy.

Clues: ✝️🗣🎶🎤🎸🏰🦅🍻✈️⚾️🏈📖🖋🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹🇩🇪♥️
Good memory.

First opera my wife and I performed in together (Verdi's "Otello").

2007.

We got married a year later.

Hard to believe one year from now we will have been together 20 years. Wow!
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
An evening out with the missus.

Christmas time is especially busy for us as a family, including that her and I are both active professional singers with gigs all around town.

So, to stop and enjoy each other's company and a refreshment is always appreciated.

🎄
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas regardless of your background.

And find some space to give and receive grace. We all could use it especially this year.

🎄

Listen to "White Christmas" (trad).mp3 by ryno690 on #SoundCloud
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Just my voice and my guitar performing a holiday classic.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Moose wishing you all a restful and peaceful Sunday.

He's got the right idea.
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Releasing 100 pages totally blacked out is a fuck you from the DOJ and a huge admission of a cover up.
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
TFW you order gifts from Amazon and found you had a sizeable amount of credit leftover from a previously acquired gift card that you'd forgotten about!
a man with blue and red face paint is holding a sword .
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December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
No flag.

No matter.

A second later DJ hauls it in.

One of the greatest @chicagobearsnews.bsky.social in history.

Merry Christmas.

🐻🎄👊🏉
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
13 and me made our annual Christmas visit to see the reindeer and the other terrific critters out at our favorite country zoo.

Been coming for a decade.

Nice ride through the country from the west suburbs to get there too.

Recommended. 🎄

#summerfieldzoo
December 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Having dreams of the music I've been working at learning these last few weeks: Cars tunes, but also Go-Gos, Blondie and No Doubt.

First gig with em in 5 weeks at Cubby Bear!

theelectriccarsband.com

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Tragic Blonde Vacation
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Lezzgo!
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December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
😆
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Can you imagine the relief that will be felt by 70% of America - dare I say feelings of happiness - when that person has left the stage?
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What a blathering, blaming man-child.

He won't make it to '28.

🤡🤡🤡
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
😆
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A big difference between Donald Trump & Rob Reiner is that people are going to miss Rob Reiner.
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
One again, just another level added into the filthy pretender currently occupying our White House.

May he exit the premises none too soon.

Absolutely fucking disgusting.
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Spent the final day and evening last night in the company of my brother-in-law. Prepping my Mom's old house for sale, we discussed many things, some funny, thoughtful and uncomfortable.

The underrated activity of savoring a cigar and a good beer with the ones you love.

Goodbye, Paradise Point.
December 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Sitting at a jam-packed Fort Myers airport awaiting likely my last flight home from FL for a while.

While I still enjoy aspects of it, this state has exploded in population in recent years, not to mention how expensive it has become.

Not anxious to return anytime soon.
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
While exploring The Everglades yesterday, I drove past a new, government-issued signpost off Rte 41 denoting a nearby site: Alligator Alcatraz.

Chills.

I pray that sign ends up like this one someday.
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
At age 100, Dick Van Dyke was born closer to the death of Thomas Jefferson (1826) than he was to the present day.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I ♥️ the Everglades
December 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thinking of widow/widowers, especially those entering their first Christmas absent their spouse.

My 20th anniversary of that in my life from my first wife will be next year.

You, like me, probably won't feel like celebrating. Do what you gotta do to get through it.

And you will.
December 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Not gonna lie.

Waking up at 0630 and it's already 58°F out and going to low 80s ain't bad.

Especially for this Midwest dude.

#Naples #Florida
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM