“When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles.” – Anonymous I awoke at 10:00 AM to the blaring of my watch alarm, and began to feel restless almost immediately. We’d kept our electricity until the wee hours of the morning–which constitutes a minor miracle [...]
Much like most of my February posts, this one is probably not going to make your top-5 ‘Andy’s Greatest Posts of All-Time’ list. As a matter of fact, I have next to nothing to report. But since I’m in the mood, what with the 35 pages of research paperage I’ve written in the past 4 [...]
And so, it comes again. Back in my homeland, I’d be watching a river dyed nuclear-reactive-slime-green, and preparing some convoluted story of ancestry for the scores of Plastic Paddies at the Beverly parade who drunkenly demanded to know “What county d’yer people come from?”. (Note: Ignorance or apathy regarding this subject made you, in their [...]
As I rolled out of bed on Friday, a thin, greyish band of light shone through the 7th story window of my Baltimore hotel room. Its very color promised a bracing, biting chill to come. I staggered into the bathroom, my right ear still ailing from the flight, and with the taste of [...]
This week’s been a little chaotic, folks. A good friend decided to get married a thousand miles away, 10 days after Mardi Gras, and to involve me in the wedding (can’t we just rent tuxedo t-shirts? people like those, right?). Also, no doubt in hopes of bolstering my spirit of Lenten penitence, my professors have [...]
House-key: Check. Cash: Check Shorts: Thomas Murphy Ignatius short. I gave myself the preemptive pat down before leaving the house, making absolutely certain that the necessary accoutrement for the evening’s revelry was crammed into the small back zip-pouch of my tech shirt. But of greater import, I would soon realize, were the addled, diseased, and malfunctioning [...]
In the hopes of lowering your expectations so I stand a chance at meeting them, I offer the following qualification: this will not be the greatest blog post ever written. It probably won’t even crack the top five. I will not be teaching you how to cook, or babbling about fictitious athletes, or attempting to [...]
You awaken in a fog, a dreary, browned-out haze of misplaced recollections and foul smells emanating from some nearby kitchen. You remember something being said around mile 5 about a post-workout meal, but everything after that is lost to the ages. There’s a table in front of you, and some demented fool whistling [...]
As he awoke from his fitful slumber at 6:45, Jim McClary’s first thought was “Pretty god-damn cold for a subtropical paradise,”. He glanced around the room hazily, contemplating a short trip to the thermostat, or to the closet for an extra blanket. But as he stepped foot out of bed, he knew he had inadvertently [...]
On October 30th, 2004, I sat in a basement, pensively presiding over several half-empty Domino’s boxes, accompanied only by my brother and the sound of Brent Musburger’s voice. My brother lay prone, his face buried in a pillow about one foot away from the base of the television stand. We were about to witness one [...]
