Noel Murray

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Freelancer for hire. Formerly: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of
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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

I’m pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have in fact caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers.

Okay. What about your local school board? What about the elected officials in your local criminal justice system? You don't think your mayor and city council have any direct effect on environmental policy or health care in your community? Who exactly is "hollowing out the public sector," I wonder?

A spirited round of Camel Up on this holiday afternoon.

Bought a bag of Tom's Hot Fries at the grocery store; but I was really buying a trip through time, back to the El Dorado, Kansas municipal pool, summer of 1977.

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i like this headline/image combo because it implies there is a potential Air Bud situation brewing over there

The aurora's rising behind us. The pier lights. Our carnival life forever.

The express written consent of Major League Baseball is sexy.

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Hamstring has got to be the funniest name for a body part. "I don't know what's going on with your leg. It's like pork twine in there."

I enjoyed the differing master/pupil dynamics at play in this week's THE ACOLYTE episode; but with two episodes to go, it seems like this whole season is going to be about slowly revealing everyone's backstory. More prologue than plot. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Acolyte Recap: Inapt Pupilswww.vulture.com It’s corruptin’ time!

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For Christ's sake, tomorrow is the 4th of July!

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For @salonnewsroom.bsky.social , I had such a great conversation with Mike Campbell about the excellent new Dirty Knobs record - but our conversation of course also touched on Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, and what's in Campbell's music vault. www.salon.com/2024/06/19/m...

Yesterday I was trying to quote Shriekback's "Nemesis" to my family and I stumbled over a few words and had to look up the lyrics online. These are uncertain times.

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In revisiting the show for [PLUG] my book, Back to the Island, out Sept. 20 (order now) [/PLUG], I genuinely became SO SAD for what we've lost. Yes, that show had some STINKER episodes, but the space it had to tell its story! The beautiful production! The ambition!!!

You couldn’t produce Lost on streaming. It needed all that time and space to play and grow and be weird. Three eight episode seasons would not have covered it.

Sometimes you forget how good peanut-butter crackers are, then you eat one and you're like, "Yeah, peanut butter crackers, totally."

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We're taking the week off for vacation at The Reveal, but we've posted some highlights from the last year and are offering a 20% holiday sale for new subscribers. thereveal.substack.com/p/for-the-fo...

For the Fourth: Some Highlights from The Reveal Archives (and a Holiday Sale)thereveal.substack.com We’re taking the week off, so why not catch up by reading some of our favorite pieces from the last year (and enjoy a 20% discount on annual subscriptions)?

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I don't get the complaints. Angle looked fine to me.

Fans blast camera angle for USMNT-Uruguay Copa América matchdlvr.it The USMNT’s match against Uruguay in the Copa América Group C Finale barely got underway Monday night when livid fans began complaining about the FS1 broadcast. Fans blasted the extremely high camera placement at Kansas City’s GEHA Field at Arrowhead…

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Oh boy, $150,000!

Also, the book about LOST I co-wrote with @emilystjams.bsky.social has its first review! I think this one describes the book well and understands what we were going for. www.publishersweekly.com/9781419750502

‘Lost’: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series by Emily St James, Noel Murraywww.publishersweekly.com In this spirited commentary, screenwriter St. James (coauthor of Monsters of the Week) and TV critic Murray serve up brief essay...

LOST stuff! With the series returning to Netflix today, @memles.bsky.social is resuming his old TV Club Classic reviews over at Episodic Medium, picking up with S4. I'm joining him for the occasional crosstalk review, starting with today's: episodicmedium.substack.com/p/episodic-c...

Episodic Classics: Lost, "The Beginning of the End" & "Confirmed Dead" | Season 4, Episodes 1-2episodicmedium.substack.com An endgame promises resolution, and the producers deliver *checks notes*...a whole bunch of a new characters and mysteries

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"Doonesbury" for May 16, 1979

Iris takes center stage in this week's MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, a moody episode which suggests the semi-reformed mob moll isn't long for this world. www.vulture.com/article/mayo...

Mayor of Kingstown Recap: I Just Want You To Know Who I Amwww.vulture.com Iris is playing a dangerous game.

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Sack o'Sauce in a Can o'Meat walked so Presto Pasta could run bsky.app/profile/disc...

Oscar Mayer Sack o' Sauce in a Can o' Meat (1948-circa 1955): A novel innovation, in which a meat product was sealed in a can, along with a separate bag of sauce to accompany it. The idea was to package both together for convenience, but separate to retain flavor and texture

Sunday Dinner: BLTs, pretzel chips, fruit salad.

Don't know how many of you have been listening along with 99% Invisible's year-long THE POWER BROKER book club, but my TV critic and TV fan friends might want to skip to the last hour of the latest installment for a fun and fascinating Mike Schur interview. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-...

The Power Broker #06: Mike Schur - 99% Invisible99percentinvisible.org This is the sixth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott sit down with Mike S...

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In a zombie apocalypse I scenario I volunteer to be the guy spraypainting shit like "THE DEAD WALK" and "THE GOVERNMENT ABANDONED US" and "AIM FOR THE HEAD" everywhere

Been enjoying the PETTY COUNTRY tribute album, though listening to it has convinced me that you could probably re-release the original Tom Petty songs to modern country radio and they wouldn’t sound out of place. store.tompetty.com/products/pet...

Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration Of Tom Petty- 2 LP Cloud Vistore.tompetty.com Orders ship in 1-2 weeks The Tom Petty Estate is thrilled to officially announce Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty, out June 21 via Big Machine Records. The album is a country mu...

On our morning walk, we saw several turtles and rabbits. None showed any particular competitive spirit. Myth busted.

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Your inner child only wants one thing, and it’s to draw an impossibly intricate city on the back of a study guide