MacDonald is a fairly common Scottish surname, and since Saint Andrew is Scotland's patron saint, Andrew MacDonald is a common name. I estimate that there are at least several hundred of us -- not enough to fill a stadum, but enough for a convention at a Ramada. The most famous is a professional skateboarder, and the most scary is the pseudonym of a vicious racist who wrote The Turner Diaries, the book that inspired Timothy McVeigh to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City. One night at 2am I received a call from a man who loved the book and mistakenly wanted to thank me for it, by far the creepiest call I've ever gotten.
This encounter made me think of the great variety of activities engaged in under one name. Using Google I've compiled a list of other Andy MacDonalds, posted on the left under the blogroll. Perhaps it is of interest to nobody but me, but I will keep expanding it to help define "who is Andy MacDonald."
Posted by awm at January 14, 2004 11:30 PM