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husband, father, novelist, host of PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY (@peoplertheenemy.bsky.social), and senior writer for Surviving the Golden Age about.me/AndyMascola

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hey friends,

My 2025 novel, How to Saw a Man in Half, is out!

Get it in paperback and ebook formats, worldwide, via Amazon here: mybook.to/L5tQ

Don’t use Amazon? Get it in ebook format at Google Play here: play.google.com/store/books/...

Thank you for your patronage,

-Andy
#newbook #pleaseshare

Front and back cover of How to Saw a Man in Half by Andy Mascola paperback edition: Content Warning: This book contains discussions of suicide, mental health struggles, and other potentially distressing topics.
It was eight in the morning on a Friday. I'd just arrived for work. I'd been employed by this particular company for about a month. I was asked to follow the woman past a glass office wherein I saw my supervisor sitting behind a laptop with an employee across from him. This was highly abnormal for that early hour. Something was up. I began to sweat.
I was brought into a room where it was just the female superior and myself. She shut the door. I stood against a wall as if in front of a firing squad, my hands hanging loosely by my sides. She stood at the opposite side of the room, one foot on the lowest rung of a chair, and proceeded to tell me how a colleague had complained about me. This was it. I was about to get fired for the third time in the same year. I began to shake. I shook so much that the woman noticed.
"What's going on?" she asked.
I didn't want to speak for fear my voice would sound shaky. I didn't want to tell this woman I'd been canned twice in the last ten months under circumstances very similar to what was happening in that moment. I didn t want to tell this woman that la only recently got my confidence back and was beginning to fear I was about to lose it again. I didn't want this woman to know that my wife of over twenty years didn't love me anymore and wanted a divorce. I didn't want this woman to know my wife had told me she no longer wanted me to express tender sentiments toward her because she didn t reciprocate them. I didn't want to tell this woman, whom Id known in a professional capacity for barely a handful of weeks, and who was not my friend, or at all friendly to me, that my wife did not want me to touch her anymore.
"I've had a bad couple years," was all I could get out.

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 12h

“Is there something deeper here buried in this squirmy comedic premise? Some statement about insecure men that can’t let anything go? Burning their world down, & the world around them, in some futile effort to, they imagine, get the respect they deserve?” -TikTok’r describing Tim Robinson’s new show

Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 17h

Listening to D’Angelo. RIP #fuckcancer

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 18h

“… the entire universe, everything we know, is nothing but a pebble in the heel of the shoe of a cosmic fat lady.” -Marina Abramović

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 18h

“… the entire universe, everything we know, is nothing but a pebble in the heel of the shoe of a cosmic fat lady.” -Marina Abramović

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 1d

Of course Tron: Ares was a box office disappointment! Nobody wants to project themselves into that world. People want to project themselves into Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment or that coffeehouse in Friends.

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe they gave the Nelk Boys the Nobel Peace Prize for interviewing Netanyahu. #BurgerKing

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 1d

Saw Destroyer in Boston on Friday. Here’s my review of the show: #livemusic #concertreview @stgablog.bsky.social

Destroyer in Boston, MA – Surviving the Golden Age

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 1d

Were you at the Boston show?

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Amesower @awesomer.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: the bassist burned a copy of Streethawk in 2003 and gave it to FOT David (Loambagel/Emergency Broadcast Hour), who loaned it to me.

Everything is about me, or at least in this case it is!

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 1d

Saw Destroyer in Boston on Friday. Here’s my review of the show: #livemusic #concertreview @stgablog.bsky.social

Destroyer in Boston, MA – Surviving the Golden Age

survivingthegoldenage.com

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PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY @peoplertheenemy.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 406 is available! Andy talks about Cardi B and Bia, Destroyer in Boston, and not having any heat or hot water in his home. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines (@therachel.bsky.social)
looks at Rush’s top ten best-performing songs on the Top Tracks/Mainstream Rock airplay chart.

Episode 406

Podcast Episode · PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY · 10/13/2025 · 43m

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 2d

Finished Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes. A B-list novelist who’s been MeToo’d runs into an aging actress and posts on IG about her deteriorating looks. She reads his post and the two begin corresponding via email during the pandemic. I’ve read all VD’s translated books. This is the best so far.

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When I have to take the air conditioners out of the windows. 🍁

Chief in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest lifting water fountain.

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Friday!

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Happy Friday!

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 5d

“I love you, guys, and I think you’ll be okay without me. I’m not entirely sure I’ll be okay without you.” -Marc Maron 😿 #WTF #podcast

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 5d

America’s president is such an unabashed megalomaniacal narcissist that if Jimmy Kimmel invited him on his show, Trump would 100% appear.

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 5d

America’s president is such an unabashed megalomaniacal narcissist that if Jimmy Kimmel invited him on his show, Trump would 100% appear.

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 5d

“I love you, guys, and I think you’ll be okay without me. I’m not entirely sure I’ll be okay without you.” -Marc Maron 😿 #WTF #podcast

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 5d

Hope I live long enough to see this fuckery end and can enjoy a couple decent Trump-free years in the US.

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 7d

The titles of Andy Mascola’s thirteen novels superimposed over an image of a woman’s backside and her left hand which is holding a switchblade knife: UNMAGNIFICENT LIVES
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE VIRGIN WOLVES?
KISSING OBLIVION
WOLFISH GIRL
PAPER BAG REVOLVER
ANIMAL CONTROL
NOW WE HAVE NOTHING
WHERE ARE YOU NOW, RANDY DOW?
ZERO PERCENT JUICE
THE PEEPER AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
JADE SUEDE
INSATIABLE REJECTS
HOW TO SAW A MAN IN HALF

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Josh Frightbert @joshseybert.bsky.social · 8d

We've got Dennis from @maryvsmovies.bsky.social on this month's show, and what can I tell you, we had a blast.

Empathy at the Apocalypse @empathyapocalypse.bsky.social · 8d

Monday's amirite? Don't even talk to me until I've had my morning cup of Empathy at the Apocalypse, with two packets of Dennis Lingg! Let the chuckle-boys fill your workweek with giggles aplenty!

Empathy at the Apocalypse: Episode 7 - How Often Are You Drawing Bears? with Dennis Lingg

Dennis Lingg of the podcast Mary Versus the Movies joins Josh and Andy to talk about Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors musical, interviewing Tom Scharpling and calling into the Best Show, Josh confesses h...

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Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social · 7d

Feels like Trump vs America.

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Bob Sellers @bob-sellers.bsky.social · 8d

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