Kevin Murphy

@kevincmurphy.com

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Speechwriter, historian, cinephile, old-school blogger. Formerly academia, Congress, politics, preservation. Nowadays in Philly. He/him/his. http://kevincmurphy.com/biography.html

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed, smiling
Mimi Rogers in the first scene of The Rapture. (If this post makes no sense to you, watch The Rapture.)
Colman Domingo in The Running Man (2025)
Number 6 and Number 12 in front of a poster advertising speed learning a three year course in three minutes, from The Prisoner episode "The General"
Intertitle card from the end of ANIARA: Year 5,981,407
Multiple posts in a row celebrating the Spanish goal.
Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode driving a tiny car in the "Never Let Me Down Again" video/portion of Anton Corbijn's "Strange".
Luthen Rael Drake meme Sad Luthen: Is AI Conscious? Happy Luthen: Is Mitch McConnell conscious?
Utopia meme.
Number 6 and Number 12 in front of the "speed learn a three years course in three minutes" poster, from The Prisoner episode "The General"
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
Sully the 1.5 year old bichon wearing a blue Hawaii type shirt with alligators. (He was regularly called the Sulligator before the look.)
Oscar Isaac contemplating his poor choices.
Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) is drained of his lifeforce to feed his colleague Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Skeksis technology is being employed, and Graham is holding today's WaPo sports section.
The newspaper Mitch is holding in the previous posts image.
Poster for the OG Flatliners with Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Billy Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon
Sully the 1.5 year old bichon lounges next to a water bowl.
Luke in RotJ: I'm endangering the mission, I shouldn't have come.
The Pink Floyd Animals pig in Children of Men (with Clive Owen and Danny Huston in the foreground.)
Sy Ableman sweeps the US electoral map.
Coop meets Leland in the Black Lodge
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
The Bosnian war criminal guy drinking poison: pausa de hidratacion
Tintin kicking a soccer ball past (presumably) a goalkeeper way out of the box and tripping over his own ass.
R. Budd Dwyer reaching for some refreshment in his brown bag lunch: Pausa de hidratacion
The last scene of Only Lovers Left Alive, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston about to bite: pausa de hidratacion
Post by Musicology Duck: wait Graham Platner was a Tune Inn bartender...that tells me most of what I needed to know as an outsider
Tom Reagan knocking one back behind Leo in Miller's Crossing: Pausa De Hidratacion
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed pouring a nightcap: "pausa de hidratacion"
The elevator scene in Big Trouble in Little China
Homer Simpson: I have powers...political powers.
Eedy Karn serving her son Syril some blue milk for his cereal in Andor. "Pausa de Hidratacion"
Screencap from Aniara: Year 4
The Crisis by Thomas Paine
Sully the 1.5 year old bichon wags his tail waiting for the vet.
Sully the 1.5 year old bichon waiting with anticipation for the vet.
You wouldn't meme: you wouldn't load an image.
A bunch of old Infocom text adventures
Trade offer meme I receive: Balogun's red card rescinded You receive: Billy Bob's bucket of Ultras
Arnold Toht faces the music in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
Tony Leung in In the Mood for Love (but will take him in anything really).
The Lego Eye of Mordor facing off against the spire of Lego Minas Tirith
Lego Rivendell and Barad'Dur on the left, Lego Minas Tirith on the right.
Magnolia Mall in Florence, SC
The tweet above, and the next 3 in my feed: @thefarmerjones heh @sethpartnow welp @alexshephard woof
Lego Rivendell, Barad-Dur, and Minas Tirith. Also the Shire if you look hard enough.
Sully the 1.5 year old bichon lounges on @@murftacular.bsky.social's legs with Lego Minas Tirith 98% complete in the foreground.
Lego Denethor enjoying a meal in his Steward's chair.
Lego Barad-Dur and Lego Minas Tirith, standing athwart each other in my nerd basement.
Jeopardy clue: Think of the creature associated with a last song and you'll know Gillian Murphy of ABT chose this ballet for her last dance in 2025.
David Warner in Star Trek VI: you have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
Painini World Cup 2026 sticker book and sticker packs on a bichon blanket.
"That aint no etch-a-sketch. That's one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet." If you find people talking in such overstylized hipster-speak for ninety minutes witty and/or adorable, you'll probably enjoy Jason Reitman's Juno quite a bit more than I did."
Fear and Loathing: Finish the fucking story, man!
"So Ive always had this sort of love of the Knicks, just because Amar'e is so cool,' Swift told Time Magazine in 2014. "And also I performed ar the Lnicks' - at MSG Kids Talent Competition at halftime - when I was 12 or 13."
Scott The Extender Foster
Malkovich to Damon in Rounders: hanging around
Adam Silver doing a victory pose as Wemby scores easily behind him. (Sent via a friend in group chat)
Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac) blinded by the Arrakis sun/heat in Dune.