Ryan Nobles: A Call to Action

You’ve might have seen him on your day off while watching Fox’s first news at 4. Or perhaps you’ve caught him just before bedtime (or bar time) on NBC’s evening news at 10. Or maybe, just maybe, the two of you have helped Twitter collide with the local media and live-tweeted the news using the #NBC12 hashtag.

His name is Ryan Nobles.

And we’re calling him out.

Yesterday afternoon, Ryan tweeted a message about a holiday coming up that most of us were not aware of.  It appears as though in one week (6 days now) Ryan will be celebrating his birthday.  And by the sound of things, he doesn’t have any plans:

We’re looking to change that.  After stealing a suggestion from our good friend @RVABusiness, if Ryan doesn’t object, we’d like to throw a party for him next Tuesday. And before he or anybody else starts shaking their head while predicting that he will be unemployed come next Wednesday, let us say up front that we will make sure that we keep it somewhat classy. After all, we’re dealing with a member of our local media here.  We have to make sure he keeps his job.  We’re not sure what we would do without live news tweeting on Sunday nights.

The plan is to throw a small pre-party next Tuesday night at a local bar and then invite the party to join us for our Tuesday night ritual at Sticky Rice for karaoke.  We’d also like to let the OMGWTFRVA readers choose the song Ryan sings – but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. One step at a time.

Ryan, what do you say? A few drinks and a whole lotta singing for your birthday?

Let us know. We’ll be waiting.