Required Reading
- 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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Author Archives: Sean Murphy
David Bowie: The Man Who Owned the World
David Bowie didn’t merely innovate; he wrought aesthetic and stylistic changes and, like an irrepressible Pied Piper, people followed him wherever he went. Continue reading
O’Connor and Coltrane: Saints of American Art
Flannery O’Connor wanted to jolt you with the violent shock of recognition, in the service of artistic if not spiritual consecration; Coltrane wanted to transcend the insanity altogether, altering consciousness through a profoundly moving colloquy. Continue reading
Over/Under the Volcano
When it comes to alcohol, as soon as you stop feeling the pain, it’s because you’re no longer feeling much of anything. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged '50s, alcohol, alcoholism, hangovers, Service Industry, Sobriety
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End of Summer (Camp) with a Bat, a Cat and a Clown
A super-sized sampling of Adam West, Cesar Romero and (especially) Julie Newmar is precisely what our ailing world needs right about now. Continue reading
On Losing Faith and Finding Myself Instead
AUGUST 30, 2002. I was in a church for the first time in forever. The church where I received the Sacrament of Confirmation. The church where my parents celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The church where my sister was … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Dostoyevsky, faith, Kurt Vonnegut, memoir, Milan Kundera, Organized Religion, Sean Murphy, Ursula K. LeGuin
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PUNCH DRUNKER: THE 50 GREATEST MOVIE FIGHTS OF ALL TIME
In America our religion is violence, and our cathedral has long been the silver screen. So let’s celebrate 50 of the greatest fights in movie history. Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest
Tagged 48 Hours, A Clockwork Orange, Alien, An Officer and a Gentleman, animal house, Anthony Hopkins, Batman, Blade Runner, Breaking Away, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Cannonball Run, Cape Fear, captain blood, class, Cool Hand Luke, Darth Vader, Days of Heaven, Death Wish, Eastern Promises, Enter the Dragon, Escape from Alcatraz, Every Which Way But Loose, Excalibur, Fight Club, Friday, Goldfinger, goodfellas, Gymkata, Jason and the Argonauts, Jaws, King Kong, Kurosawa, let it be, Luke Sywalker, Malcolm X, Marathon Man, Marlon Brando, Mean Streets, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Bodyguard, old boy, On The Waterfront, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Roadhouse, Rob Lowe, Robin and Marian, Rocky, Rocky III, Slap Shot, Star Wars, Superman II, The Bounty, The Deer Hunter, The Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather, The Karate Kid, the last detail, The Outsiders, The Pink Panther, The Princess Bride, The Terminator, The Warriors, the wild ones, they live, Tom Yum Goong, true romance, War of the Roses, Youngblood
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The Worst People in America: Dick Cheney
“Dick” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Continue reading
Posted in Worst People in America
Tagged 9/11, Bush, Chicken Hawk, Dick Cheney, evil, Guantanamo
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