Bill Murphy
@roninscribe.bsky.social
Record label manager, freelance writer, guitar slinger, occasional gadfly — mostly in that order.
Clearly you guys are not Johnny Cash fans
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Clearly you guys are not Johnny Cash fans
Well, other sources say otherwise, which presumably is why the Times ran with it. www.facebook.com/share/p/1D8h...
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Well, other sources say otherwise, which presumably is why the Times ran with it. www.facebook.com/share/p/1D8h...
It’s her spiritual closer here that really gets me. Just poignant, poetic and powerful.
October 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It’s her spiritual closer here that really gets me. Just poignant, poetic and powerful.
I’d always meant to look for a collection of JQ’s Movieline hits but just never got around to it until I picked up Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler last year. Such a great book!
There’s most definitely an audience for a curated retrospective of your work on FFC. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
There’s most definitely an audience for a curated retrospective of your work on FFC. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
September 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I’d always meant to look for a collection of JQ’s Movieline hits but just never got around to it until I picked up Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler last year. Such a great book!
There’s most definitely an audience for a curated retrospective of your work on FFC. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
There’s most definitely an audience for a curated retrospective of your work on FFC. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Stellar review. I haven’t laughed like that since reading Joe Queenan back in his Movieline prime.
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Stellar review. I haven’t laughed like that since reading Joe Queenan back in his Movieline prime.
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I think that frankly we could be a bit less trigger-happy with some of the pile-ons - we do not need to, e.g., spend weeks litigating Will Stancil’s view of the state of the economy
but I also think that a lot of more centrist types come here looking for a fight, get one, and go “see? I was right!”
but I also think that a lot of more centrist types come here looking for a fight, get one, and go “see? I was right!”
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Dude come on 🙄 bsky.app/profile/rinc...
“Cook said during Apple’s recent earnings call that the company’s financial hit from tariffs last quarter was $800 million. Apple said those costs are likely to balloon to $1.1 billion in the September quarter.”
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Tim Cook gifts Trump customized Apple glass to celebrate the tech giant's new US investment
Tim Cook presented Donald Trump with a special piece of Apple-made glass. Trump gave the tech giant something much better.
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August 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
“Cook said during Apple’s recent earnings call that the company’s financial hit from tariffs last quarter was $800 million. Apple said those costs are likely to balloon to $1.1 billion in the September quarter.”
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Seeing the NYT Arts & Entertainment Guide stuck in March 2020 lockdown mode is instantly one of the saddest metaphors I can imagine for where we are now.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Seeing the NYT Arts & Entertainment Guide stuck in March 2020 lockdown mode is instantly one of the saddest metaphors I can imagine for where we are now.
Spot-on take. As a longtime freelance journo, it’s been oddly disturbing to witness the gradual (inevitable?) disappearance of the “informed review” — plus most of what I’ve written myself (reviews, artist profiles, interviews) is simply gone from the web now. I don’t see any of that changing.
July 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Spot-on take. As a longtime freelance journo, it’s been oddly disturbing to witness the gradual (inevitable?) disappearance of the “informed review” — plus most of what I’ve written myself (reviews, artist profiles, interviews) is simply gone from the web now. I don’t see any of that changing.