Andymatic

Month: January 2006

  • Hostel

    I wasn’t traumatized by Hostel. When a horror movie has this much hype I want to be freaked out and shaking in my Pampers. Yes, vomiting through a ball gag is gross. But, if you are going to show tin snips positioned on a toe you better show that toe coming off. I guess I […]

  • Homeland Security Opening Postal Mail

    DoHS opening up US Postal mail from abroad Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal. National […]

  • No Pictures, Please

    I left the building a couple days ago to go pay rent and I’m walking down the street, minding my own business and a car horn honks and I hear: ANDY! ANDY! I walk over to the car where there’s two guys I’ve never met before. We thought it was you! They’re fans of my […]

  • Andrea Mitchell Sitting on Bush Spying on Amanpour Story

    A few weeks ago, John Avarosis theorized that maybe a reason that Bush wanted to end-run around the FISA courts – even eschewing retro-active warrants – was because maybe who he was spying on was worse than we could imagine. NBC had posted a transcript of Andrea Mitchell interviewing John Risen (who broke the NSA/FISA […]

  • Andy and Astro Boy

  • US-China Trade in Three Sentences

    Quick excerpt from Frontline’s Is Wal-Mart Good for America? The myth of an enormous and growing China market wound up locking the United States into a trading partnership with China that had to benefit China much more than it could benefit us. And the reason was China would always be able to sell the United […]

  • Tyra Banks Unloads on Tiffany on Top Model 4

    I have never watched America’s Next Top Model before until the other day where Tyra laid into this girl. TYRA: Be quiet, Tiffany! Be quiet! [so loud the sound engineer can’t compensate] Stop it! I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this. When my mother yells like this it’s because she […]

  • Bill O'Reilly and Phil Donahue Blowout

    Holy shit. This is good. Wow. Christ. Video here. Donahue: We’ve already had two thou – almost thousand – (gestures for O’Reilly to hold off) – just let me have the last word. In the last year two things have doubled. The number of dead American troops in Iraq has doubled and you know what […]

  • Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11

    Kristine Borjesson is back with a new book about media, politics and perception. Her previous book, Into the Buzzsaw is pretty mindblowing. When I watch network news, it’s just so hard to watch. It isn’t attractive. They all look alike, they all sound alike, they all say the same things. And I don’t care how […]

  • 364 Days Left

    364 days left. Creatine fizzing in a bottle. Caffeine entering bloodstream. Kitty chomping Meow Mix (I didn’t have time to get him his usual Sciene Diet so he has to deal with the travesty of food from White Hen). How much time each year do you spend in virtual worlds? If you add up the […]