Ryan Zeinert (born February 1, 1982(1982-02-01)) is an American author, blogger, and raconteur. Zeinert is the creator of the long-running humor and pop culture blog The CDP. He published his first collection of essays, 65 Poor Life Decisions, in 2007, and his second, Aerating The Mashed Potatoes, in 2010. Zeinert generally writes autobiographical essays with a self-deprecating type of humor, often focusing on his childhood in rural Wisconsin, hi...
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Ryan Zeinert (born February 1, 1982(1982-02-01)) is an American author, blogger, and raconteur. Zeinert is the creator of the long-running humor and pop culture blog The CDP. He published his first collection of essays, 65 Poor Life Decisions, in 2007, and his second, Aerating The Mashed Potatoes, in 2010. Zeinert generally writes autobiographical essays with a self-deprecating type of humor, often focusing on his childhood in rural Wisconsin, his relationships and the idiosyncrasies of daily life.
Zeinert was born in Neenah, Wisconsin and raised in Larsen, a small unincorporated town in rural Wisconsin. He is the older of two siblings. As a child, he suffered from insomnia and irrational fears, much of which he contributes to living in an isolated rural farmhouse. Zeinert would often entertain himself during these times by writing stories, one such being "Rampage in the Tower" at age 7, about a group of guests at a party getting horribly dispatched, one at a time, by the sadistic...
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