Andy - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I spend most of my time pretending to be some kind of working professional. I work at the Jewish student center at Washington University in St. Louis.In no particular order, I consider myself: spontaneous, irreverent, funny, unmotivated, jewish, artistic, an atheist, wishing I was still in California, a little bit crazy, lazy, hard-working, gay, and I guess some other stuff too.I like to make my wallets out of duct tape, wear flip-flops in the rain, cook stuff without recipes, and work on crazy new schemes.You can see some of my pictures here: http://flickr.com/photos/andydr/setsIf you want to see some videos I'm in, you can watch them here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=12EB0CEDAC332E89

My Interests

picture taking, website making, internet surfing, food cooking, sports watching, room decorating, poker playing, holiday creating (long story), film script writing, and international relations stuff (which hopefully I will go back to grad school to study more sometime in the future)...I've also become much more recently interested in art, although I'm not entirely sure what direction that will take.

I'd like to meet:

Raffael Lomas [again] (http://www.raffaellomas.net/) Yigael Yadin [deceased] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigael_Yadin) Andy Warhol David Ben-Gurion Chuck Palahniuk

Music:

I have profiles on Pandora and Last.fm with info about some of the music I like: http://www.pandora.com/people/andyratto http://www.last.fm/user/andoatnp/

Movies:

Yossi and Jagger, Signs, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Last Castle, Memento, Three Kings, the end of the Thomas Crown Affair, Fight Club, Zoolander, Office Space, movies by Wes Anderson, especially Rushmore and The Royal Tennenbaums.

Television:

House, Seinfeld, Scrubs, Law and Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Simpsons, Grey's Anatomy, that new Caveman show, Lost, and some other stuff (but I actually try not to watch very much tv).

Books:

I don't read anymore.

My Blog

Gay and Gayer, Episode Nine

Fun times, back on the couch: Got a question or [email protected]...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:01:00 PST

My Commandments

Most people are familiar with the Ten Commandments. You know the story: Moses, tablets, Mount Sinai, etc. Well, throughout the Torah (that's the Jewish Bible, also known somewhat pejoratively, as th...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:51:00 PST

All French Fries, No Pizza

I teach at a local Jewish shul, and I recently got to chaperone a ski trip to Hidden Valley. (By the way, shul is the yiddish word that can be used interchangeably with synagogue or temple, and since...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:46:00 PST

Gay and Gayer Episode Eight

Not rain, not snow, not sickness stops Gay and Gayer. New episode below. Also, we have a Facebook group now, so if you like Gay and Gayer please join and help us get the word out. ...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:20:00 PST

Gay and Gayer, Episode Seven

Another new episode. Let me know if you have any thoughts as we're always looking for new topics and ways to improve. It's about a holiday for gays, Heath Ledger, and bestiality.Stuff we men...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:11:00 PST

Dvar Torah from this Week on Parsha Yitro

I wrote the Dvar Torah (literally, words of Torah) for the Hillel newsletter this week. This week's section is about the the trek to Mount Sinai and culminates with God delivering the Commandments to...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:48:00 PST

Mormonism, Judaism, and Missionary Work

I recently slept through the opportunity to harass greet some Mormon missionaries who stopped by my house, although by not seeing them I got to imagine what sort of mischievous, but hilarious, conver...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:06:00 PST

Knock Knock

Apparently two Mormon missionaries stopped by while I was napping today, and my parents sent them away without harassing them first. They were girl missionaries, which I didn't realize existed.I woul...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:36:00 PST

Learning About the Sacrifice of Isaac

[This was something I wrote a while ago, but I'm only getting around to posting it now. It's part of my effort to write more Jewish stuff, which will eventually find a home somewhere outside of myspa...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:26:00 PST

My Judaism and My Traditions

I had a very interesting conversation yesterday with one of the staff people here at the Hillel Conference. (Here being D.C.) I'm not really sure what her official title is or what she actually does...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:49:00 PST