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Dec 19, 2021

We had some massive nights

At the start of this month, I got to join a lot of people who look too much like me for the sixth annual Massive Nights. It’s a concert series put on at Brooklyn Bowl by The Hold Steady, a band that began life in the Twin Cities, but moved…

Mental Health

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We had some massive nights
We had some massive nights
Mental Health

8 min read


Sep 29, 2021

A ball, a box, and a button

When it starts, the box is small. Any motion causes the ball to move inside the box, and it almost always triggers the button. Over time, we learn ways to grow the confines of the box, or the box grows on its own. Motion can still trigger the button as…

Fitness

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A ball, a box, and a button
A ball, a box, and a button
Fitness

8 min read


Mar 7, 2020

One year later

I’m sitting on a train and listening against my will to an extremely inane conversation between two boomers who either haven’t seen each other in a long time and must recount their entire lives up to this point to the other, or are just always like this. It’s helpful, in…

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May 19, 2019

The watch

When I was about nine years old, my father took me to go see GoldenEye, the new James Bond movie. I don’t remember if I knew much about the Bond franchise at the time, but I knew my dad loved action movies, so I was excited. It was also rated…

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The watch
The watch

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Apr 27, 2019

On Avengers and loss

Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the movie yet. I left work early to see pretty much the first possible showing for Avengers: Endgame that I could with Kerry the day it opened. I’d been waiting excitedly for the culmination of a 22-movie story arc that started back in…

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On Avengers and loss
On Avengers and loss

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Apr 11, 2019

W.C.M., part II

I’ve been debating publishing this because, well, is that something one does? It’s been a little over a month since my father passed away, and I’m still processing just what’s happened in that short period of time. I’ve spent so much time with my family and close friends, but I…

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Mar 7, 2019

W.C.M.

At roughly the same time he left work for as long as I can remember, my father Bill Murphy passed away March 6, 2019 in Hingham, Massachusetts. It look 11 years for cancer to ultimately get my dad. After his original diagnosis he was given months to live, back in…

Cancer

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W.C.M.
W.C.M.
Cancer

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Jul 12, 2017

2027

You’re woken up by soft ocean wave sounds, generated by an Amazon Echo. …

Amazon Echo

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Amazon Echo

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Dec 29, 2016

Music from 2016 that I listened to and liked

I’ve been making a list of the random albums that I’ve liked each year off and on for the past decade or so. Last year I moved over from Tumblr to Medium, because this is where people go when they want to post ~feelings~ or respond to corporate PR. …

2016

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Music from 2016 that I listened to and liked
Music from 2016 that I listened to and liked
2016

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Jan 1, 2016

Music from 2015 that I listened to and liked

I used to make these lists on Tumblr, but it’s the future now, so I’m using Medium. This is now where people talk about themselves as if they have important things to say. In that vein, I present a random, alphabetical list of the albums that I listened to this…

2015

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Music from 2015 that I listened to and liked
Music from 2015 that I listened to and liked
2015

2 min read

Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy

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Online writer and editor, longtime tech reporter. Past stories of mine can be found at: mikeis.online

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