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JZ Murdock

Horror author, filmmaker, USAF vet. Currently investigating a family mystery that keeps getting stranger. The Quiet Man Dispatches publish every Sunday.

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Evaluation of my 1984 University Paper on Psychology

I had an AI evaluate it and what came of it made me laugh

The Quiet Man Dispatch #13 — No Records Found

What a government “we don’t have him” letter actually means, and the question I’m not trying to answer, just trying to ask honestly

The Quiet Man Dispatch #12 — Turn the Tools on Yourself

What FOIA can actually do for family history, and why a career's worth of skill doesn't have to work for someone else forever

The Curse of the Oblique Title

Or: Why My Best Work Has the Worst Names

The Quiet Man Dispatch #11 — The Man in the Lawn Chair

The boss from Polson's Camp, a grandfather's racing partner, a mother's reverence, and a man who might be his son, Sonny.

Moral Panic and Paradigm Shifts

A Timeline of Information Technology and Its Discontents

The Scorsese Moment

AI, Art, and the Eternal Fear of the New

The Quiet Man Dispatch #10 - Two Objects at Sheryl's House

A reentry permit, and a license plate nobody can explain

A Review, Imagined: What Mr. Poe Might Have Said of "The Mea Culpa Document"

An exercise in critical ventriloquism — because some stories seem to have been written for an audience of one, and that audience died in 1849.

The Empty Grab: Why Clickbait Should Be a Crime, and Why Purpleism Calls It a Sin

There's a small, specific kind of lie that has become so normalized we've stopped noticing it as a lie at all.