I saw Drive three times last year AT THE CINEMA. I effing love that movie. I effing love Ryan Gosling. The Notebook? GET OUT OF MY FACE OMG IT/HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL.
So when I found out that he MIGHT BE IN MELBOURNE I felt the need to scream it from the digital rooftop.
UPDATE: My interview about Ryan Gosling in The Age’s Sunday Life magazine.
Here I will explain how the #Goslingwatch meme/hysteria began, for any of you that are confused. For those “underground/in the know” Gosling fans, we all know that this all started on June 18, 11 days ago.
A friend posted on facebook that a friend’s friend saw Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes at a cafe near Brunswick street. Naturally I took this and posted this all over Twitter, starting many breathless tweets from my female followers.
forget about all that social media stuff APPARENTLY RYAN GOSLING IS ON BRUNSWICK STREET!!! #Ryangosling #melbourne
— Rose Callaghan (@operation_rosie) June 19, 2012
And then I made up the #Goslingwatch hashtag
so apparently he was spotted 1 and a half to 2 hours ago at a cafe nr cnr Brunswick/Johnson street with Eva Mendes. #Goslingwatch
— Rose Callaghan (@operation_rosie) June 19, 2012
The next day my friend Adam Curley saw him at Mario’s on Brunswick street, reportedly dining alone wearing a blue baseball cap.
more Intel “@Team_Devery: @operation_rosie Further Gosling rumors. Apparently he’s at Mariio’s on B’Wick Street now. #Goslingwatch”
— Rose Callaghan (@operation_rosie) June 20, 2012
I began to google the living shit out of anything related to Ryan Gosling and Melbourne, any movies that he was working on this year, how they might be connected to Melbourne/Australia, any relation/friendship he might have with that chick from Mad Men who is filming a show in Australia at the moment. The internet came up with absolutely NOTHING.
As I generally put all my faith in the internet and could find no evidence, I put it down to a hilarious rumour and we all began to indulge in Ryan Gosling sighting related jokes.
Reports of Ryan Gosling visiting Melbourne and causing earthquakes. What will that handsome devil do next?
— Laura Thomas (@misslaurathomas) June 19, 2012
hope Ryan Gosling doesn’t try to order a soy, they don’t like that at Mario’s
— ThreeThousand (@ThreeThousand) June 20, 2012
Ryan Gosling will be at the 1:10 showing of That’s My Boy at Melbourne Central tomorrow.
— Jae Little (@jaejae316) June 20, 2012
Ryan Gosling spotted headbutting clerk at Polyester who told him they were still waiting on a delivery of Lower Plenty records #goslingwatch
— Rose Callaghan (@operation_rosie) June 20, 2012
At that point I had to concede that I thought it was most likely not true, and everyone’s hearts got broken for a while…
…UNTIL YESTERDAY! Yesterday was the day that my friend posted a picture of what she claimed to be Ryan Gosling, alongside the Ryan Gosling meme inspired description – “Hey girl, you just spotted RYAN MOTHER FREAKIN GOSLING!†She states that she saw him at the Doclands.
Naturally I hijacked the picture and posted it on my Twitter (I would have credited you Lucy but you seem to have deleted your twitter slash I can’t find your handle anymore!!!!) and restarted the #Goslingwatch hashtag.
ladies, we can recommence #Goslingwatch! My friend snapped this atDocklands today and claims it is he – Ryan Gosling! twitter.com/operation_rosi…
— Rose Callaghan (@operation_rosie) June 28, 2012
Miss Buckeridge has since gone underground, has not posted anymore Ryan Gosling related statuses and can not been reached for comment.
At some stage this morning the “mainstream media†has cottoned onto #Gosling watch and started posting about the rumours, along with Lucy’s photo. I believe it has also been on radio 3AW.
Better late than never. I have been quoted all over these articles but sadly not with a link to my Twitter or my name.
Today their have been so called sightings in QV Shopping Centre and Port Melbourne.
Some articles:
 Take40.com (aka my old work, and they still quoted me as “a friend”, LOL)
I think #Goslingwatch is pretty much a meme now, seeing as there have been some pretty decent photoshop jobs going around.
Just snapped this photo of Ryan Gosling in my local Coles #Goslingwatch twitter.com/darren_levin/s…
— Darren Levin (@darren_levin) June 29, 2012
Wow. I was kind of sceptical but I actually just saw Ryan Gosling in Melbourne #goslingwatch twitter.com/samlinke/statu…
— Sam Linke (@samlinke) June 29, 2012
There is also a very shit website and Twitter page for “Gosling in Melbourne”. Seriously, if it’s not going to be funny, why even bother? All the jokes are “heavily influenced” by stuff that has already been posted online.
OK, well that’s all from me. You can read everything else about #Goslingwatch on my Twitter. I am quite exhausted from the excitement of all this and I’m going to Taco Bill with my workmates to drink half price margaritas.