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The Adventures of Aborted Andy | Episode I: Meeting Your Maker
July 30, 2026
David Himmel
The Adventures of Aborted Andy | Episode I: Meeting Your Maker
July 30, 2026
David Himmel

Andy disassembled his weapon with lighting speed. He packed it away in the black backpack made specifically for a weapon of this sort. He bolted to the roof access door as fast as his little, chubby legs would carry him. He made his way through the condo/office building stairwell without being noticed just as he had done on his way up. Andy was good at his job. And for a nine-month-old baby, he was really good at it.

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July 30, 2026
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 27, 2025
David Himmel, Post-It Wall Notes David Himmel 5/2/25 David Himmel, Post-It Wall Notes David Himmel 5/2/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 27, 2025

Acknowledging when you fuck up is as important as acknowledging when someone else fucks up. Difference is, you should be harder on yourself than you are on them.

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I Believe... [GenX Kids Were Monsters]
Don Hall, I Believe... Don Hall 11/7/22 Don Hall, I Believe... Don Hall 11/7/22

I Believe... [GenX Kids Were Monsters]

...that, if you’re honest with yourself, you know that you and your prepubescent friends would’ve beat E.T. with rebar and hammers, would’ve absolutely ostracized Edward Scissorhands, and would’ve taken Rick Moranis’s shrunken kids and put them in a mason jar with a firecracker.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 15, 2020
David Himmel, Post-It Wall Notes David Himmel 11/20/20 David Himmel, Post-It Wall Notes David Himmel 11/20/20

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 15, 2020

Stop being so hard on yourself and everyone else. Just be social. Just be cool. Stop expecting so much from everything but have the ambition to make it all better. Then follow through.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 30, 2019
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 30, 2019

Sesame Street needs a Hasidic Jew character. Could be a Muppet, could be a human. Yes, there’s Oscar the Grouch and Julia the Autistic, but to truly represent an individual who complains and struggles with a break from routine, a Hasidic Jew is the best you’ll get.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 17, 2019
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 17, 2019

• Forgiveness is not valued enough. And too often, it’s not even attempted. And that’s why we’re doomed.

• I feel a crushing amount of guilt and regret for thinking that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an attractive person. I feel the same way about Ivanka Trump.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall — Week of May 20, 2018
David Himmel, Post-It Wall Notes David Himmel 5/25/18 David Himmel, Post-It Wall Notes David Himmel 5/25/18

Notes from the Post-it Wall — Week of May 20, 2018

My wife told me that while changing our son’s diaper yesterday, he reached down, grabbed his little nut sack and yanked on it. “He’s your son,” she said to me. “He’s already sitting in gum.” If you understand what she’s talking about then you know how proud my son has made me.

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