Category: Murphy’s Law

Joel Murphy I like to think of myself as someone who is in touch with pop culture. As the alcoholic/talentless hack Ned Bitters pointed out in his diatribe yesterday, my columns are usually sprinkled with references to modern TV shows and films. I spend an unhealthy amount of …

Joel Murphy Humboldt County, California, 1958 – bulldozer operator Jerry Crew finds extremely large footprints around his rig. The Humboldt Times, in a front page story about the discovery, coins the term “Bigfoot.” Bluff Creek, California, 1967 – amateur documentary filmmaker Roger Patterson releases grainy footage of what …

Joel Murphy Hollywood hates you, hates marriages and secretly wants your children to grow up to be sex-crazed adulterers. At least, that’s the impression I got after reading a new study released by the Parent Television Council entitled “Happily Never After: How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over …

Joel Murphy After all of the hype surrounding The Dark Knight, now that I have seen the film and raved about how good it is, you would think I would be ready to move on with my life. But instead of just enjoying the film and finding something …

Joel Murphy We are only one day away from “Batman Day” (which isn’t a national holiday yet, but I’m still working on it), the day when the greatest movie since Citizen Kane is finally being released. You would think being less than 24 hours away from the greatest …