Now Here's an Ann Arbor Personality!
Galaxor Nebulon (aka Ryan Hughes) Sings His Brain Anatomy Songs
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Your narrator ran into his old buddy Galaxor at a party. He sang three songs and we recorded them. Now you can download all three of them--for free! All in one small file!

Download the songs.

When I first met Ryan Hughes, he was a writer for the University of Michigan's Gargoyle Humor Magazine. He always seemed to be hanging around the MIchigan Daily when I was there as an undergraduate. The Gargoyle is on the first floor of the Student Publications Building, so he'd just walk upstairs and hang out in the news room. Some of you may know him by his pranks, like the kid who tried change his name to Galaxor Nebulon. Here's what he wrote about that on his website:

I tried to have my name legally changed for the year 2000, to Galaxor Nebulon. I thought it would be funny, but apparently the Honorable Judge Thomas L. Brown Presiding disagreed ("I don't think fun [said with such derisiveness!] is a good enough reason to change your name. [sound of gavel banging]"). Ever since then, I've thought of filing an appeal, or trying to have my name changed to The Honorable Judge Thomas L. Brown Presiding, but I haven't felt like rustling up the $150 that it takes to appear in court again. *sigh*.

Nebulon ran for the Michigan Student Assembly (U of M's student government) with the F.R.A.T. (Friends Rebelling Against Tyranny) Party. You can read a write-up of the 1999 MSA elections and the FRAT Party by that young arch-conservative lizard, JJ Wilson.

Ryan got into trouble when he spray painted the signs of homophobic preacher Fred ("god hates fags) Phelps when the Kansan's mob descended on Ann Arbor with their hatred and lawyers. As Ryan says,

I was also involved in a little hullaballoo in which the University tried to punish me under its little laws for activist activities I was involved in. I'm sick of talking about it, but suffice it to say that Unjust Authority + Hearing + Clown Suit = Charges Dropped! (with a lot of help from a lot of people, thanks!).

Mr. Hughes wrote these songs on his day off while doing some yard work.

Here's that link to the songs again.