Hugh Murchison
@hughmurchison.bsky.social
Screenwriter, playwright, former medical writer, and occasional thinker.
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My Wordle "bot analysis" today. The @nytimes.com average was only a tad better for "turns to find the solution," even though I shellacked the average for skill.
Again demonstrating that it’s better to be lucky than good.
Again demonstrating that it’s better to be lucky than good.
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My Wordle "bot analysis" today. The @nytimes.com average was only a tad better for "turns to find the solution," even though I shellacked the average for skill.
Again demonstrating that it’s better to be lucky than good.
Again demonstrating that it’s better to be lucky than good.
Confirming an answer to this "pants-cut" matter has sometimes kept me up at night over the years.
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Confirming an answer to this "pants-cut" matter has sometimes kept me up at night over the years.
Deck the sky with Northern Lights. (view from my back deck a short time ago)
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Deck the sky with Northern Lights. (view from my back deck a short time ago)
Today was a decent word-game day for me!
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Today was a decent word-game day for me!
Good friend John Lloyd inspired me to shoot the moon tonight. So I did. With my iPhone.
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Good friend John Lloyd inspired me to shoot the moon tonight. So I did. With my iPhone.
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS for the 8K run, which means an allowance of 770 calories (approx) for Thanksgiving Day's dinner!
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS for the 8K run, which means an allowance of 770 calories (approx) for Thanksgiving Day's dinner!
Can't believe Cambridge prof John Maynard Keynes never won a Nobel Prize!
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Can't believe Cambridge prof John Maynard Keynes never won a Nobel Prize!
Aarrgh! On my phone!! <retch>
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Aarrgh! On my phone!! <retch>
From Poppy, my tortie and wife Pegi's, to cat lovers the world over!
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
From Poppy, my tortie and wife Pegi's, to cat lovers the world over!
From a small collection of artwork created on a recent trip to Kanazawa, Japan.
October 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
From a small collection of artwork created on a recent trip to Kanazawa, Japan.
Jesse Pellington's best work, as hair-and-makeup artist, was in front of the camera.
Her IMPOSSIBLE work was behind it -- shown here, working on THE BRIDE & GOON writer-director @hughmurchison.bsky.social.
(Photo courtesy of Julia Desena).
Her IMPOSSIBLE work was behind it -- shown here, working on THE BRIDE & GOON writer-director @hughmurchison.bsky.social.
(Photo courtesy of Julia Desena).
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Jesse Pellington's best work, as hair-and-makeup artist, was in front of the camera.
Her IMPOSSIBLE work was behind it -- shown here, working on THE BRIDE & GOON writer-director @hughmurchison.bsky.social.
(Photo courtesy of Julia Desena).
Her IMPOSSIBLE work was behind it -- shown here, working on THE BRIDE & GOON writer-director @hughmurchison.bsky.social.
(Photo courtesy of Julia Desena).
Cellphone in a rocker at a nearby table where Pegi and I ate lunch in Tokyo.
Such rockers, I found out, enable passive step counting, so users can pull fast ones on a company’s health-insurance incentives.
Don’t have a cat or dog to strap your phone to to reach your daily step goals?! No problem!
Such rockers, I found out, enable passive step counting, so users can pull fast ones on a company’s health-insurance incentives.
Don’t have a cat or dog to strap your phone to to reach your daily step goals?! No problem!
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Cellphone in a rocker at a nearby table where Pegi and I ate lunch in Tokyo.
Such rockers, I found out, enable passive step counting, so users can pull fast ones on a company’s health-insurance incentives.
Don’t have a cat or dog to strap your phone to to reach your daily step goals?! No problem!
Such rockers, I found out, enable passive step counting, so users can pull fast ones on a company’s health-insurance incentives.
Don’t have a cat or dog to strap your phone to to reach your daily step goals?! No problem!
Yes, but I can explain…
See, I wrote and directed this film, THE BRIDE & GOON, and these are the actors, Linnae Budusky, Alex Seidner, and Juan Cardenas, who played the main characters.
You gotta believe me!!
See, I wrote and directed this film, THE BRIDE & GOON, and these are the actors, Linnae Budusky, Alex Seidner, and Juan Cardenas, who played the main characters.
You gotta believe me!!
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Yes, but I can explain…
See, I wrote and directed this film, THE BRIDE & GOON, and these are the actors, Linnae Budusky, Alex Seidner, and Juan Cardenas, who played the main characters.
You gotta believe me!!
See, I wrote and directed this film, THE BRIDE & GOON, and these are the actors, Linnae Budusky, Alex Seidner, and Juan Cardenas, who played the main characters.
You gotta believe me!!
LOST IN TRANSLATION??
That CAN’T be what the Japanese text means! Drinkable face and hand soap?
That CAN’T be what the Japanese text means! Drinkable face and hand soap?
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
LOST IN TRANSLATION??
That CAN’T be what the Japanese text means! Drinkable face and hand soap?
That CAN’T be what the Japanese text means! Drinkable face and hand soap?
The decorative manhole covers of Kobe, Japan!
October 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The decorative manhole covers of Kobe, Japan!
Less than 5 min after i snapped this photo in Kobe Kitanocho (Japan), some guy returned my passport, which I didn’t know was missing!
It’s like some part of me is trying to make it hard to leave Japan!
It’s like some part of me is trying to make it hard to leave Japan!
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Less than 5 min after i snapped this photo in Kobe Kitanocho (Japan), some guy returned my passport, which I didn’t know was missing!
It’s like some part of me is trying to make it hard to leave Japan!
It’s like some part of me is trying to make it hard to leave Japan!
Pointing at the Kobe Port Tower.
As can be seen, I’m kinda big in Kobe, Japan.
As can be seen, I’m kinda big in Kobe, Japan.
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Pointing at the Kobe Port Tower.
As can be seen, I’m kinda big in Kobe, Japan.
As can be seen, I’m kinda big in Kobe, Japan.
Stopped at a French patisserie, in Kobe, Japan, called “Bigot.” Pronounced “be-GO?”
Had a yummy treat that favors the Mexican concha.
Keeping my mind open, if not my mouth closed, about Bigots is recommended. Some of them make delicious baked goods!
Had a yummy treat that favors the Mexican concha.
Keeping my mind open, if not my mouth closed, about Bigots is recommended. Some of them make delicious baked goods!
October 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Stopped at a French patisserie, in Kobe, Japan, called “Bigot.” Pronounced “be-GO?”
Had a yummy treat that favors the Mexican concha.
Keeping my mind open, if not my mouth closed, about Bigots is recommended. Some of them make delicious baked goods!
Had a yummy treat that favors the Mexican concha.
Keeping my mind open, if not my mouth closed, about Bigots is recommended. Some of them make delicious baked goods!
I read Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima’s “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” a lifetime ago.
Today I finally got a chance to see The Golden Pavilion — seen here between Pegi and me like some figment of our imaginations!
Today I finally got a chance to see The Golden Pavilion — seen here between Pegi and me like some figment of our imaginations!
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I read Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima’s “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” a lifetime ago.
Today I finally got a chance to see The Golden Pavilion — seen here between Pegi and me like some figment of our imaginations!
Today I finally got a chance to see The Golden Pavilion — seen here between Pegi and me like some figment of our imaginations!
Somewhere in the Toyama Prefecture of Japan, I made paper today — 1920 years after Chinese official Ts’ai Lun invented what is now known as paper!
“Better late than never” is what I say!
In the 4th picture in this post, see the three small sheets (in a row) that I created.
“Better late than never” is what I say!
In the 4th picture in this post, see the three small sheets (in a row) that I created.
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Somewhere in the Toyama Prefecture of Japan, I made paper today — 1920 years after Chinese official Ts’ai Lun invented what is now known as paper!
“Better late than never” is what I say!
In the 4th picture in this post, see the three small sheets (in a row) that I created.
“Better late than never” is what I say!
In the 4th picture in this post, see the three small sheets (in a row) that I created.
Now, at 2:15 AM JST, seems a good time to announce a small company I started not so long ago…
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Now, at 2:15 AM JST, seems a good time to announce a small company I started not so long ago…
A sign for the queue to see the giant panda offers three different ways to say, “Don’t be THE LINE JUMPER.”
My previous short film, titled THE LINE JUMPER, haunts me — but in a good way!
My previous short film, titled THE LINE JUMPER, haunts me — but in a good way!
October 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A sign for the queue to see the giant panda offers three different ways to say, “Don’t be THE LINE JUMPER.”
My previous short film, titled THE LINE JUMPER, haunts me — but in a good way!
My previous short film, titled THE LINE JUMPER, haunts me — but in a good way!
Thank you, Super Mario! I’m thrilled to be here!
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thank you, Super Mario! I’m thrilled to be here!
"Takes a village," as they say. This is mine for the short film THE BRIDE & GOON that I wrote, directed, and co-produced.
September 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Takes a village," as they say. This is mine for the short film THE BRIDE & GOON that I wrote, directed, and co-produced.