Andy's Blog
Race and “Good Taste”
Not long ago I was offered a gig at The [ Withholding the Large Virginia Town's Name Here ] Arts and Culture Center. After responding with the thank-you-for-inviting-me email, I went to the center's website to see what the place was like. There I encountered the following program...
Unhinged Folly ~ Andy Offutt Irwin
This essay appeared in The Covington [GA] News on July 6, 2022. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of folly out there. And it’s important to remember that… “Folly is a more dangerous enemy to the good than evil…There is no defense against folly. Neither protests nor force are of any avail...
CoronaKudzu
This essay was begun on October 7, 2020. It was submitted to The Covington News soon after. It was published there on October 17, 2020. ______________________________________ CoronaKudzu Because of social-distancing changes in the television industry, a particularly grand opportunity has come to...
Make My Community More Better
Today is July 4, 2020. I feel obliged to write this italicized section, but skip it if you have a mind to. I wrote this essay for my home town paper, The Covington News, where I have been a monthly columnist since 2015. It has been on their desks for two publishing cycles – the hard paper comes...