this store does not sell miraculous insecticide chalk


This is a mostly empty domain owned by Colin Murphy (talking about the Albuquerque-Austin-Chicago Colin Murphy, not the evil soap opera doctor or the Irish comedian). This store does not sell miraculous insecticide chalk, so please don't ask. Mainly it just sits here, raking in enormous amounts of passive income from random keyword matches and wayfaring strangers wandering into its lair.  

Your luck may not be much better at any of the other things I'm responsible for--murcoil, dadsmanship, or made last night--but it's worth a shot. Also there's all the socializing: here, there, this way, and that way

Oh look there. You see? It's an advertisement. There's another one over there to the right. Down below are some things I typed to make sure this thing worked the way I thought it did, which it generally seems to. Please, if you have any suggestions on how to make this a more interesting and user-centered passive income raking experience, let me know by one of the mediums above. 

a new old project

posted Nov 7, 2011 9:28 AM by Colin Murphy   [ updated Nov 11, 2011 11:25 AM ]

I used to enjoy the Tothian writing of letters to the producers of products I admire, like the makers of A1 Steak Sauce. A few days ago, a postcard fell out of an old vinyl LP of the Tijuana Brass I was about to consign to Goodwill pile, suggesting a new project. 

From now on, any old business reply postcard I find, I will document their filling out and mailing in and whatever comes of this. Here's the first one, to High Fidelity Magazine, at One Sound Drive, Canton Ohio. Since sending it I looked it up and found that it ceased publication more than 20 years ago, but hopefully somebody there in Canton will have some back issues they'll throw my way.

High Fidelity subscription card, ca. 1986

style guide

posted Oct 31, 2011 1:14 PM by Colin Murphy   [ updated Oct 31, 2011 1:17 PM ]

We, the style authority of this site, duly selected and installed, hereby decree that the title style is not even sentence case. I don't even know what you would call it. Only proper nouns, and then only a few of those, chosen pretty much at random, will be capitalized. Middle-of-sentence case? Definitely no way will there ever be all caps anywhere here as long as I can dictate what's what. 

the global terrorist threat

posted Oct 31, 2011 11:11 AM by Colin Murphy   [ updated Oct 31, 2011 1:14 PM ]

Snow globes were enough of an issue at this LGA security checkpoint that they had to make an entire laminated sign about it.

Please be advised, snow globes are not allowed through the security checkpoint.

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