Andymatic

Category: Journal

  • Department of Agriculture Renames Hunger to ‘Food Insecurity'

    Paging Mr. Orwell: In case you missed it, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week that it had erased hunger in America. It really did … erase hunger, that is. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "hungry" is no longer an acceptable term to describe people who are … well, hungry.  … So the […]

  • Emachine Down

    Well this sucks donkey balls. My Emachine won’t power up. Online searches say that Emachines sometimes have faulty power supplies. We might try to switch the powe supply from my old Dell into the Emachine and see if it boots up. Never a dull moment.

  • Turkey Report-Out and Mulletspotting

    (written yesterday) Crap I got the hiccups. Or the hiccoughs as they say in other countries. I think. There was some book I read a as kid where they talked about hiccoughs and it took me half the book to realize they were talking about hiccups. Mom dad and my sister are off to the […]

  • Do You Believe in Evil?

    On the way home, dad and I talked about evil. I’m not sure I really believe in evil. Or rather I think that I feel that when you declare someone Evil that doesn’t mean you are automatically Good. So often declaring something or someone or some group as evil means you divorce the argument from […]

  • Best Buy and Beyond

    (from Tuesday night. It is 9:02pm EST.) Dad and I swung by Best Buy, Bed Bath and Beyond and some other place today at the new strip mall area. When Brigitte and I began our drive down Veterans Parkway (formerly Highway 131), I exclaimed: We’re home! Not a locally-0wned business as far as the eye […]

  • What I Wished I'd Known When I Was in Theatre School

    On the drive down Brigitte and I were talking about what we wished we’d been told in theatre school to prepare us for the ‘real world.’ My suggestions for anyone entering an undergraduate theatre program: 1) Get therapy and meds. During school you have a ton of resources available to you. If you think you […]

  • Back Home Again in Indiana

    (written on Monday) Brigitte and I had a fun drive in from Chicago. Her black cat Logan sat in the back in his carrier (it was open so he could have roamed in the backseat if he wanted, plus Brigitte even had a mini litter box set up for him if the mood struck). The […]

  • New York's Upper East Side

    Comment from MeFi: I had many opportunities to observe him and his rail-thin, dripping-with-jewelry trophy wife in their various interactions with, well, other finance types and their rail-thin, dripping-with-jewelry trophy wives. I spent a lot of time shuttling them about, to the Hamptons, around town, etc, overhearing their conversations about what piece of jewelry wifey […]

  • Brandon Lee, Aaliyah and Brandy

    (we’re watching the beginning of The Crow) Andy: You know that Brandon Lee is Bruce Lee’s son. Ron: No he is not! Andy: Yes he is. Ron: You know he got killed on the set. Andy: Yes. He got shot by a gun that had blanks. Ron: No, it wasn’t an accident. Andy: Honey. Really. […]

  • Dear Paula Zahn,

    I don’t give a shit about Tom and Katie. Hugs, Andy p.s.  A much more exciting story is the rumors that Tom carries a genetic marker to sire cyclops babies or that Nicole was really an XY-chromosome woman.