Welcome To My World
Sean MurphyI’m Sean Murphy, and you might have heard me on NPR’s “All Things Considered” or...
Q&A: How Sean Murphy Sees Story
It was my extreme pleasure to chat with Sarah Trembath for Some Things Considered (Season...
Annual Labor Day Rant: Unpaid Internships are Evil
i. First off, with very few exceptions, unpaid internships are immoral and disgusting. Any business, especially a...
On Broken Heels (x 2)
I was going to comment on Trump’s comments yesterday about the Medal of Honor as...
On This Day, 1979
Summer 1979: I was too young and too dumb to understand that the intense backlash...
Shelley Duvall, Sui Generis
It’s going to be all The Shining all the time, but the lead sentence of...
Original Poem: Gen X Exegesis
Where are my #GenX at? This one’s for you. It’s also for those older and...
HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME: CELTICS/LAKERS ’84 at 40
Forty years ago. Officially a classic. But, of course, it was a classic even as...
Rebel’s Rebel: Anthony Bourdain, Six Years Gone
Here’s what I wrote, the moment I read –with the same shock and sadness most...
Born in the U.S.A. at 40: The Boss Before, During, After
i. Before Deliver Me From Nowhere Perhaps because of what followed—the next album, the acclaim—Springsteen’s...
In the Garden of Eden: Doug Ingle, RIP
RIP to Doug Ingle, singer and organist on Iron Butterfly’s epic (or insufferable — and...