Andy Hermann
@andyhermann.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, podcaster, cat dad, wino, semi-retired raver, once and future music journalist.
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It’s just the metaphorical usage: unkempt, messy, rambling.
I love Pasadena. I love L.A. I love this country. #nokings
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This thread warmed my cynical little GenX heart. 👻
the boy is home from school today and he wanted to watch GHOSTBUSTERS and so we’re watching ghostbusters. a few thoughts. i have not watched this in a minute and have kind of forgotten how (charmingly) shaggy this movie this is. also, hello annie potts 👀 and a special hello to sigourney weaver 👀👀
So is the NFL currently experiencing parity? Or mediocrity? Or both?

Feels like every team right now is one concussed cornerback away from completely unraveling.
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JB Pritzker's forceful, defiant response to Trump's threat to jail him confirms the points I tried to make in the piece and thread below about the role of conflict and attention in the public battle over Trump's authoritarian takeover:
One of the podcasts I work on is nominated for a Signal Award for Best Writing, which is lovely since I take a lot of pride in how good our writers are. And hey, you can vote for us! If we lose to Outlaw Ocean I wont be mad but it’d be pretty neat to win. vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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I wish we could’ve worked together again. I wish I’d had a chance to buy him a beer or three. I wish I was half the writer he was. He was only 37. RIP.
This is one of my favorite pieces he wrote. I somehow convinced him to adapt it into a season of Against the Odds, which he wrote for us with wit and grace and a little embarrassment, I think. The show’s style was a little pulpy for taste but he adapted well to it. www.vox.com/the-highligh...
The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping
In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.
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Stunned to hear that we recently lost Kaleb Horton, one of the most talented writers I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. He was tuned to a different frequency, picking up voices from a version of California that darker and way more interesting than the sunshine and celebrities version.
Am I the only one watching this game who forgot until the third quarter that Cooper Kupp is now a Seahawk?
Helping make this podcast that I think is pretty good.
Post of the day 🦅
The fact that we started off the season by literally spitting in a Cowboy’s face…… truly America’s Team
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they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
💯 I am not Newsom’s biggest fan but when the choice is between him and fascism I’ll take Newsom all day long.
I do not like Newsom and would not vote for him in a primary, nor do I want him as president.

But he’s not wrong here, and if Dem congressional leaders had Newsom’s spine (even if that spine happens to be reinforced by infinite ambition) much of Trump’s agenda would be paralyzed.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's the rule of Don, no longer the rule of law. And people need to understand the lines that are being redrawn in Texas are not about party. They're about power. And you've got to meet fire with fire and power needs to be asserted in blue states, not just red states."
Since most of the recent news about my employers Wondery has been about layoffs, I thought I’d take this opportunity to let everyone know that: a) I’m still here, and b) I still have a new podcast to promote! And yes, it looks like we get to keep making it. So I’m feeling very fortunate.
I loved her to bits and I can’t believe she’s gone. This house is going to be way too quiet without her. 💔
We said goodbye to Gabi today, our Halloween kitty. She was the loudest cat I’ve ever lived with. She never met a finger she wouldn’t bite. In her senior years, she developed hyperthyroidism and a taste for people food, which she could root out of any sealed container with ruthless efficiency.
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Me three months ago:
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
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This is moving.

Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.

What could have been…
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984