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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Sorry, Charlie
Everyone, it seems, opposes censorship until it’s their sacred cow being smacked around; anyone can endorse artists’ rights until it’s their ass in the crosshairs. Free speech is—and must be—an all-or-nothing proposition. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged America, Censorship, Charlie Hebdo, Christopher Hitchens, Conservative, East, Free Speech, Liberal, Paris, religion, Salman Rushdie, Sean Murphy, West
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50 Bullet Points Concerning America’s Gun Psychosis
If you’re still alive, you’re not Orlando. Do something. Do anything. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2nd Amendment, America, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, bullmurph.com, democrats, Donald Trump, GOP, Gun violence, guns, Hollywood, Igor Volsky, Jim Jefferies, massacre, NRA, Obama, Omar Mateen, Orlando, Orlando Massacre, Republicans, Sean Murphy, Soma, Stanley McChrystal, The Weeklings, TS Eliot, William Carlos Williams
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Murphy’s Laws: 46 Infallible Observations on the Occasion of Turning 46
After 46 spins around the sun, you probably haven’t had an especially worthwhile time if you don’t have some opinions you’re willing to stand by. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged 60s, Bach, Beethoven, Capitalism, David Lynch, Dick Cheney, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, jimi hendrix, Julie Newmar, Libertarianism, Marvin Hagler, MFA, Miles Davis, Mozart, Muhammad Ali, murphy s law, Murphy's Law, Oscar Wilde, Pedro Martinez, Peter O'Toole, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, thelonious monk, Top Gun, Wagner, Werner Herzog
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Don’t Believe Me, Just Watch: The 30 Greatest Pop Songs of 2015 (and 20 of the Worst)
These hits, that ice cold Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold. Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest
Tagged 5 Seconds of Summer, Alessia Cara, animals, Budapest, Elle King, Exs and Ohs, George Ezra, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Taylor Swift, twenty one pilots, Uptown Funk
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Serving Time In Sonic Youth
You’ve seen Renaissance man and esteemed guest Weekling Richard Edson onscreen in Do the Right Thing, Platoon, Stranger Than Paradise, and dozens of other films, but you probably don’t know he was the original drummer in seminal NYC post-punk noise mavens Sonic Youth. In this fascinating slice of life, he shares his riveting account of being a participant in several crucial music movements at once. The arty, funky, early 80s East Village lives again! Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Literature, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, eighties, konk, lower east side, richard edson, sonic youth
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Hot Takes and Sangfroid in the City of Light
An American expat in France on the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged 9/11, Daesh, Dijon, France, Friday the 13th attacks, ISIL, ISIS, Paris, Paris attacks, terrorism
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THE MARTYR WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Sometimes, the actors are so distractingly famous that latex appliances are required to aid in the suspension of disbelief. Nicole Kidman glues on a prosthetic nose, fills her pockets with rocks, walks into a pond . . . and Oscar history. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Biopic, drugs, Hollywood, Infinite Jest, Jesus, jimi hendrix, Moitley Croyah, Music, Oliver Stone, Patsy Cline, phonies, Sex, the Doors, The End of The Tour, The Weeklings
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