Category: Murphy’s Law

It was announced yesterday that CBS and 20th Century Fox Television have finalized a deal to bring back How I Met Your Mother back for a ninth and final season. Joel Murphy is nonplussed about the news, since he admits to only sticking with the show this season …

According to Urban Dictionary: "A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances." Thanks to the documentary and TV show by Nev Schulman and the bizarre Manti T'eo saga, "catfishing" …

Listening to Isabelle Allen sing “Castle on a Cloud” during the Les Misérables screening this week, Joel Murphy was instantly transported back to the first time he heard the song. In middle school during an assembly, one of Murphy's classmates got up in front of everyone and sang …

George Orwell's 1984 speaks of a dystopian future where Big Brother monitors its citizens every move, quickly stamping out any dissent. While most readers found this story to be a chilling precautionary tale about government overreaching, employees at Verizon have apparently found inspiration in the book's surveillance techniques. …

Last year, Joel Murphy wrote about Krampus and Zwarte Piet, two of Santa Claus' international sidekicks who help keep wicked children in line. This year, Murphy's back with three more of Santa's sidekicks - Le Père Fouettard, Belsnickel and Knecht Ruprecht - who do everything from scaring children …