iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 01/10/2026

Day 498: Sully (smart lad) is instinctually wary of a thermal detonator.

Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 26/09/2026

The Gen-Z guy next to me at the brunch bar is telling his friend the movie they're showing, "The Legend of the Headless Horseman," is one of his favorite films. (It's Sleepy Hollow).

Frances McDormand In Fargo: not sure i agree 100% with your police work, Lou.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 24/09/2026

How could I resist stories of thirty men, plus Kreegyr?

Star Wars Reign of the Empire book 2 : Edge of the Abyss, by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 22/09/2026

Day 489: Sully is in another one of his umber phases. (Too much dog park shenanigans.)

Sully the 1.5 year old bichon with a distinctly red tint.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 22/09/2026

Big whoop, Steve. You ain't special.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 19/09/2026

The answer is many, including Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. But this prompt seems like a good place to pass on to normies that DC just announced a new 2-volume omnibus edition, with the original colors (unlike the Absolutes) and period-accurate paper.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/09/2026

Speaking of which: no, AI, that is not at all what "Merry Kirkmas" refers to.

AI Overview: "Merry Kirkmas" is a playful holiday phrase connected to NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/09/2026

Some local Philly landmarks from above.

The museum row fountain (think beginning of It's Always Sunny)

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/09/2026

Now we're putting in a hard day's work at (apparently) Philly's only infinity pool.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/09/2026

Now a so-far excellent bougie meal at Fiorella in mid-south Philly. (We're still north of Washington, so south Philly doesn't seem right. More like Italian Market adjacent.)

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/09/2026

Checking out the overpriced bar scene here before dinner in South Philly. Not bad! Also, worry not, Sullyheads. The boy is happy at home with one or his friend-aunties. (This pic is hot off the presses).

Amy (@murftacular.bsky.social) posing in front of the swanky Four Seasons sky high bar.

Sully the 1.5 year old bichon jumping on our friend/dogsitter's leg.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 09/09/2026

Yeah, they've seemed bereft for awhile now.

Tim Cook on the cover of Vanity Fair trying to make Apple Oculus happen.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 09/09/2026

After a grueling 35-minute* journey from Fishtown, we've arrived at our swanky anniversary destination: the Four Seasons downtown (with welcome amenity pretzel). *Septa was borked.

View from our windows at the Four Seasons in Philly.

The luxury welcome amenity pretzel that was waiting for us.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 09/09/2026

Today is the 10th wedding anniversary of me and @murftacular.bsky.social, my partner in crime, traveling companion, drinking buddy, bichon co-parent, bae, boo, and sundry other felicities. Pretty easily the best thing to happen since 2016, and no mistake.

Amy and I getting married, September 2016

Amy and I at the Sydney Opera House, March 2026

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 07/09/2026

I know they're going for normies with the faux-Yellowstone feel, but I'm solidly in the give me kilowogg camp. But at least...

Ch'p (the squirrel Green Lantern) mentioned.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 03/09/2026

What if it's Jeremy Strong tho?

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 02/09/2026

Day 470: Sully has adopted his own more languid take on Murf's George Washington/Masterpiece Theater pose of many years ago.

Sully the 1.5 year old bichon resting in a comfy chair.

Murf the bichon (2008-2024) resting in the same chair somewhere between 10 and 15 years ago.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 31/08/2026

To be clear, I mostly like they're going "ripped from the headlines" in e3, and it's fully in keeping with GL's past. It's more that usual air of Lindelof hamfistedness wafting around. "Courage is fear that's said its prayers"...come the fuck on.

Panels from GL/GA Hard-Traveling era: old Black man who seems down on his luck asks Hal (with Ollie looking on) "i been reading about you...how you work for the blue skins, and how on a planet someplace you helped out the orange skins, and how you done considerable for the purple skins! Only there's skins you never bothered with...the Black skins! I want to know...how come? Answer me that, Mr. Green Lantern!

Hal: I...can't.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 31/08/2026

Poi Dog Pondering! I had Wishing Like a Mountain on cassette until the tapes got purged.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (OG, Guinness): Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 30/08/2026

This shit confounds me. We've given the Pentagon *at least* half a trillion dollars a year, and usually much more, for half a century, at the expense of so many other priorities. Where's the fucking money, Lebowski?

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 29/08/2026

Some screencaps for folks who don't want to watch a (brief) gaming vid.

WoW House Daylight Room with Firs and a coffee station

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 29/08/2026

WoW housing update: 7 months later, with the 12.1 room increase and especially blueprints (which means I can repeat a room without rebuilding the floor), i can finally start doing the Black Lodge justice.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 26/08/2026

Day 464: Sully and I both got haircuts today. His looks better (and they didn't give me a bowtie).

Sully the 1.5 year old bichon, freshly groomed.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 22/08/2026

Amy gave me one of my 10th anniversary gifts a few weeks early. Lego Tintin Destination Moon. One of the classics for me.

Lego Tintin Destination Moon set competed with Silo in the background.

Lego Tintin Destination Moon set in its forever home between a moon and a Tintin and Snowy statue.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 14/08/2026

Bluesky: Get the News first.

Post by Bill McKay: I am hearing that on his deathbed Nigel Farage received the light of Binface and unhesitatingly recited the Odyssey in Homeric Greek...

Post by Mark E. Poasts: Hearing reports that the Phillie Phanatic has laid eggs in the Fleld of Dreams farmhouses kitchen...

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/08/2026

Completed my Lego backlog with the cherry blossom landscape, now added to the wall behind my office desk and near Sully's window perch.

Lego Cherry Blossom Landscape on the wall between a clock and the writer's block beachscape from Barton Fink.

Sully the 1.5 year old bichon on his window perch comfy chair, by the Lego set and other wall hangings mentioned in the previous alt-text.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 08/08/2026

I won't be buying the just-announced Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld omni but I do hope it sells well. DC's rightly been plugging a lot of holes with the Big 3 but I'd love to see them also delve into the older, weirder stuff. Ambush Bug, Blue Devil, Omega Men, Arak, Arion, Booster Gold, Firestorm.

Blurb for Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld omnibus

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 08/08/2026

TBF, my back is also semi-busted today because yesterday was the annual "move the basement comic library around to make room for next year's drops" day.

Blurb for Jonah Hex by Palmiotti/Gray Omni Vol. 1

Blurb for Legends of the Dark Knight omnibus vol. 1

Blurb for Green Lantern by Morrison/Sharp omni

Blurb for Absolute Batman by Neal Adams Vol. 2

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 08/08/2026

Not to belabor your feed with IG slop, but this is a real issue. Sully's favorite sleeping position is burrowing into your soul.

Doctor: could anything be causing your chronic back pain?

Me every night; a bichon sits on and contorts someone's cartoon spine.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 07/08/2026

Mulder: *throws Scully a file* ever heard of the Lego alien?

The Lego X-Files set: close-up of Mulder's office.

The Lego X-Files set: close-up of Mulder's "I want to believe" poster.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 06/08/2026

Kicked this build off with the GWP sorbet: Scully's Lab.

Lego Scully's Lab, with Dana Scully, autopsy table, sundry lab equipment.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 02/08/2026

With Mulder's office on the way, it was time to get busy on my Lego backlog. Sauron's helmet and Grond (Grond! Grond Grond Grond) added to the LotR area.

Lego Sauron mask next to a Nazgul statuette and Lego Barad-Dur

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Lego Grond Grond Grond Grond with Lego Barad-Dur

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 01/08/2026

Day 439: Tried to capture Sully's tv watching last night but doesn't really play cause you can't see the tv. (He's watching dogs on YouTube.)

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 01/08/2026

If you were waiting up for this, you already know this, but the Lego X-Files set just went live.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 30/07/2026

Day 437: credit where due, Sully is the most cinephilic dog I've ever met. Even if he wants snugs, he makes a good faith effort to get into what you're watching.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 26/07/2026

TFW it's 2026 and half your feed is inexplicably complaining about Bernie for some reason.

Dr. Manhattan on Mars. I am tired of Earth, these people, I am tired of getting caught in the tangle of their lives.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 25/07/2026

Drop an album important to you when you were 19.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 24/07/2026

Not to make light of the situation facing journalists cause the situation sucks (and most of the irritating ones have sinecures anyway), but reading this with a PhD in history just feels like:

James Franco on the gallows in Buster Scruggs. First Time?

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 24/07/2026

You're not dreaming of Mickelson. We know, don't pretend.

Mimi Rogers in the first scene of The Rapture. (If this post makes no sense to you, watch The Rapture.)

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 20/07/2026

Getting a lot of mileage out of this pic lately.

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"

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