I”ve mentioned in the past that there are other Kevin Murphys with blogs. Well, not only do we have blogs, but we comment. It was a shock the first time I saw a comment signed “Kevin Murphy” and I didn’t write it, and the shock hasn’t worn off. I realize that there a bunch of much more famous Kevin Murphys: the author, the economist, the other economist, the doctor, the actor/humorist, the politician, the journalist, etc. After first rejecting the idea that all of us Kevin Murphys get together and take over a small country like Luxemberg or Andorra — peacefully, like the Libertarians want to do with New Hampshire, I’ve decided instead just to sign all my comment entries Kevin “fun” Murphy, since it fits in with the name of the site, and can be typed faster than Kevin “death from above” Murphy.
Posts Tagged Kevin Murphy
An Important Note
Nov 6
There are more famous Kevin Murphy’s than me, and there are those who are equally famous (as in non). You can read an interview with one of the more famous ones, the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (or MST3K to the true fan) one, who talks about the future of film (i.e. movies) in a digital world.
My Fellow Kevin Murphys
Sep 24
I have no desire to recreate the moxie nu vs. moxie pop fight. Perhaps it’s because it really is my name, and not a “handle.” I think it’s amazing that there are at least three – yes, you heard right – three Kevin Murphys with blogs. First, there’s me (although this is not a claim to primacy, but when I’m writing, I’m always the party of the first part), Kevin “funmurphys” Murphy. Then, in no particular order, there’s Kevin “Interociter” Murphy. And still in no particular order, there’s Kevin “All is True” Murphy. Now that we have the The Blogging Kevins (or if you prefer the Kevin Collective (the only libertarian supported collective)), perhaps the three of us can form our own sub-class deriving both from Kevin and from Murphy (maybe we need an Axis of Murphys first?).
Anyway, there may be only one instapundit, but there are three blogging Kevin Murphys. I say Blog On, fellow Kevin Murphys and may all of our traffic increase.
A Clash Of Titans
Jun 13
The whole blogosphere has quaked to the battle of a couple of titans arguing over who’s the real moxie. The odd thing to me is that neither is actually named moxie – they just use that moniker online. Just think if all the “Kevins” decided to get in a flame war — the internet itself would slow to a crawl as the legion of Kevins and their supporters sucked up bandwidth. Hey, that would be a real traffic booster!
I’m hereby laying down the gauntlent to all those other bloggers who use Kevin in their name – it’s mine, all mine. I’m older than most Kevins out there – 41. I’ve been on the net since 1997. And I have an Irish family name to go with it. Ha! Take that, you other Kevins! I think that entitles me to be King of the Kevins, the one true Kevin, the Keviniest Kevin of them all. So all of my regulars, both of you, go out and tell all the other Kevin bloggers that they are ripping me off. That goes for:
Kevin who definitely isn’t Irish,
and any other blogging Kevins.
Okay, the taunting was pretty lame — my heart wasn’t in it. I’d rather form the League of Kevins than get in some stupid fight about who was here first. Still, I can’t deny I would like the traffic.
Oh yeah, Kevin Drum did link to a bunch of Kevins, and Kevin Aylward liked the idea enough to do it again and send a nice email, but the League of Kevins is my idea!
Kevin Murphy the lesser
Feb 7
There are a lot of Kevin Murphys out there. While not as common as John Smith, the name, as a simple google search will show, has become common. Murphy has always been as common as dirt, but Kevin has enjoyed a surge in popularity after I was born. When I was growing up, I only knew of two other Kevin’s (OK, 3 if you count St. Kevin, patron saint of blackbirds) but now we’re everywhere – I once got an IM from a Kevin Murphy (back in my AOL days) who thought the mutual name was cause for some sort of celebration. There are three Kevin Murphy’s who work for the same large company I do, which I know because as I’m listed first in the email directory, I get a lot of their email. Anyway, my referrer logs indicate that somebody came here looking for “Kevin Murphy” “the lesser”, and apparently they found him. Kevin Murphy “the greater”, according to Google, is a doctor in British Columbia. It’s hard to argue, but I can work on being Kevin Murphy the wise, or Kevin Murphy Supreme Commander, or Kevin Murphy one hot tamale.
