Dec 19, 2021We had some massive nightsAt 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 Health8 min read
Sep 29, 2021A ball, a box, and a buttonWhen 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…Fitness8 min read
Mar 7, 2020One year laterI’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…5 min read
May 19, 2019The watchWhen 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…3 min read
Apr 27, 2019On Avengers and lossDon’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…4 min read
Apr 11, 2019W.C.M., part III’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…4 min read
Mar 7, 2019W.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…Cancer2 min read
Jul 12, 20172027You’re woken up by soft ocean wave sounds, generated by an Amazon Echo. …Amazon Echo5 min read
Dec 29, 2016Music from 2016 that I listened to and likedI’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. …20162 min read
Jan 1, 2016Music from 2015 that I listened to and likedI 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…20152 min read
