Kevin Murphy
@kevincmurphy.com
Speechwriter, historian, cinephile, old-school blogger. Formerly academia, Congress, politics, preservation. Nowadays in Philly. He/him/his. http://kevincmurphy.com/biography.html
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I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
asking the sommelier which wine pairs best with swedish fish
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
Asked and answered many times now, but: Straw Dogs.
Name 1 movie from your childhood you were way too young to watch.
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Asked and answered many times now, but: Straw Dogs.
We got got.
It's fucking embarrassing. It never stops being fucking embarrassing, but this is just so plainly Russian propaganda being parroted openly by an American president that it hits another level of fucking embarrassing.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
We got got.
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Gavin Newsom sucks. Anyone that thinks he should be president also sucks.
By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,
December 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Gavin Newsom sucks. Anyone that thinks he should be president also sucks.
As a longtime PTA hater, I really liked the hour from Leo answering the phone stoned to him getting helped out of the hospital, which is the Benicio hour. The rest has a lot of usual PTA problems.
The best parts were Benicio del Toro being hot and the marijuana cloister. Otherwise it was often nonsensical as you suggest.
December 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
As a longtime PTA hater, I really liked the hour from Leo answering the phone stoned to him getting helped out of the hospital, which is the Benicio hour. The rest has a lot of usual PTA problems.
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pour one out for the definer of culture in my youth
December 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
pour one out for the definer of culture in my youth
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i just told a child that the reason its best to eat eel on a train is that an eel and a train are shaped the same and it stunned the child into silence
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
i just told a child that the reason its best to eat eel on a train is that an eel and a train are shaped the same and it stunned the child into silence
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The Bills calling the tush push after voting to ban it
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Bills calling the tush push after voting to ban it
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e
Love you all, but I don't know about this trend of quote posting garbage takes to dunk on them. It ends up giving the OP all the attention in the world—and yeah, a lot of it is negative but you know what they say about all publicity being good publicity. This is what sub(posts) were invented for 👀😂
December 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e
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this is a thread of songs from 2025 I wish everyone knew because they are excellent and a little too obscure
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
this is a thread of songs from 2025 I wish everyone knew because they are excellent and a little too obscure
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too many IVs? blew out that right hand vein, huh? tragic
not only was Trump's right hand discolored on Christmas Eve, but it appears his left hand is now discolored too
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
too many IVs? blew out that right hand vein, huh? tragic
Feeling better about my semi-impulse decision to start taking Tru Niagen (an NAD booster) daily a few years ago, just in case the science panned out.
Between that and the shingles shot, it would seem I've got a solid anti-Alzheimer's line of defense going now.
Between that and the shingles shot, it would seem I've got a solid anti-Alzheimer's line of defense going now.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Feeling better about my semi-impulse decision to start taking Tru Niagen (an NAD booster) daily a few years ago, just in case the science panned out.
Between that and the shingles shot, it would seem I've got a solid anti-Alzheimer's line of defense going now.
Between that and the shingles shot, it would seem I've got a solid anti-Alzheimer's line of defense going now.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this essay on EYES WIDE SHUT. The pleasure of reading someone smarter than you are articulate a half-formed opinion you've had forever, better than you ever could: www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0096...
The Kubrick Site: Introducing Sociology by Tim Kreider
The Kubrick Site / The
alt.movies.kubrick Archives
www.visual-memory.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed this essay on EYES WIDE SHUT. The pleasure of reading someone smarter than you are articulate a half-formed opinion you've had forever, better than you ever could: www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0096...
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Four Darks in Red
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4889
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4889
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Four Darks in Red
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4889
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4889
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Thinking about the airplay of this song in my white working class hometown in the 1980s. How it spoke to a lot of people’s imaginations. How it might have, in its original, moved those imaginations.
📌Just heard an interview with John Mellencamp.
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Thinking about the airplay of this song in my white working class hometown in the 1980s. How it spoke to a lot of people’s imaginations. How it might have, in its original, moved those imaginations.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
How I'm walking out of 2025.
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
How I'm walking out of 2025.
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Universities embracing generative AI be like:
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Universities embracing generative AI be like:
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My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
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Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.
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Trump has clearly shown that... you can just do stuff! And that the all-smothering neoliberal consensus is a dead letter. Will other leaders on the Left emerge who are prepared to act on that information? The current national Dems certainly aren't.
The enduring legacy of Trump 2 - and really, unbridled Stephen Miller - will be that government can claim vastly more power than anyone thinks, and it should use it as quickly and ruthlessly as possible. Will be fascinating to see how this strategy plays out in the hands of progressives
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trump has clearly shown that... you can just do stuff! And that the all-smothering neoliberal consensus is a dead letter. Will other leaders on the Left emerge who are prepared to act on that information? The current national Dems certainly aren't.
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026