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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Who?
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Dying on April Fools Day is not a funny prank.
- RapidEye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Joe's main hangout was the KickAss Mystic Ninja's Podcast (he was one of the two original Ninjas) and Wingin It (where he and Summer got named the KAMN's). If you want to hear some of his works, listen to the earlier shows of KAMN http://www.kickassmysticninjas.com/ and most of the Wingin' It shows http://michaelandevo.com. If you listen to December through February episodes of Wingin It, you'll hear Joe talk about his illness, surgery, and why his cancer was untreatable.
He died very quickly from a very aggressive form of cancer. He was diagnosed late last fall and is already gone. I'd link to the blog where they gave the best posts, but the site is down now.
He was a SciFi geek in the truest sense, had a pleasant on-air disposition, generally positive outlook on life, and an all around nice guy. The world really is a lesser place without him.
Here is another related Digg story with an awesome cartoon for him:
http://digg.com/celebrity/Joe_Murphy_Has_Left_the_Building_But_His_Story_Lives_On - LocDawg, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17My thoughts exactly. There is absolutely no information in the article summary. All he tells you is that joe murphy has a podcast. This is the kind of article that is killing digg.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Dude. Wrong.
- Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10As opposed to SuperNugget, one of our most useful contributors to date!
- KazamaSmokers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Randy Innuendo, you will be missed.
- sksloan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7For those not familiar with our dear friend and colleague, Joe Murphy was a book reviewer and a pioneer in podcasting. His other profession was that of a Speech Pathologist and Audiologist having received his Masters from Western Illinois University.
He started out on Michael and Evo's The Dragon Page Cover to Cover podcast several years ago as a book reviewer. His comments were so concise and pithy that he quickly became a fan favorite. From there he joined with Summer Brooks as co-host of the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninja podcast and one of the main contributors to the popular Slice of SciFi podcast and XM Satellite Radio show.
Joe was diagnosed a few months ago with Leiomyosarcoma, a very rare form of cancer that attacks the smooth muscles of the body and the inner lining of blood vessels. Even if caught early the prognosis for this horrendous disease is not good. Sadly in Joe's case it wasn't caught as early as we had hoped. He fought bravely but lost the fight on Sunday, April 1. He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him, loved him and worked with him. - trekkie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Bye Joe. Thanks for all the laughs on the podcasts you hosted.
- mtalon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually, I think the tumor name came from his friends. Humor as medicine and all that.
Just from what I heard during the podcasts, I don't believe he was married or had kids. When he got sick, one of his fellow podcasters (Michael) let hm stay with him after his first surgery. That implies he lived alone normally.
However, just because he didn't have a live in love didn't mean he wasn't loved. I think I'd be quite happy having as many friends willing to offer time, money, and assistance as he had. While I don't know the specifics of his last hours, I'd say he was anything but alone in his last days. - Spanktacular, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Joe was a good guy. Probably the only one out of that whole bunch with a brain and vocabulary. I'll miss his "brilliant" comments.
- ultimate_ed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6To: All the various insensitive pricks that feel the uncontrollable urge to come crap on this thread.
Just move along boys. The fact is, Joe Murphy touched a large cross section of people, and enough of us are Diggers that these posts about him have made their way to the front page. We're not some collection of someone's personal Digg army out to spam the front page, we're just a collection of individuals who were moved to make our voice heard.
Yes, it's true that many people have and die from cancer regularly. And it would be unlikely that most of them would find themselves dugg to the front page by enough people who cared about them.
The fact that this collection of friends and fans have been able to get Joe on the front page of Digg ought to tell you quite a bit about the impact he had on a large number of people.
All of you posting these deeply negative comments just show yourselves for being a bunch of small sad little people. - jpilgrim, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8We'll miss you Joe
- Trumane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Goodbye Joe. I'll miss you. You were "brilliant"
- mtalon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5probably typed through tears...it's hard to put down in words what you don't want to admit.
- peterinjapan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is spooky. I *just* downloaded the Weekly Anime Review Podcast and heard from the announcer about Joe, and the link to joemurphymemorialfund.org. I clicked through and kicked him a donation, hoping it could help him and his family. Next page I load is this one -- woah. Almost as strange as the time I was watching Cosmos and surfing the web, and opened BoingBoing to see that the day was the 10th anniversary of the death of Mr. Sagan (iie, Sagan-sensei).
So long, Joe, and thanks for all the Podcasts. - gopher043, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am so sad to hear this. I used to listen to Mike and Evo's podcast alot and I always was envious of Joe's knowledge of Sci Fi and his love for the genre.
Sometimes you don't recognize the good in your life until it is gone.
RIP Joe. - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't want to admit you're an idiot, but I still managed to muddle through typing this post. Guess I'm just amazing.
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@zybch
Dude, WTF?! And you're on my friends list! - Blandyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2He's not pulling a dampe. He's actually gone.
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"The podcasting community just lost one of his warmest podcaster"
His? Podcaster(s)? Was this babelfish-translated or something? - animeworldorder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I never met Joe Murphy nor did I ever maintain any sort of correspondence with him, but I would frequently direct my own podcast listeners to the KAMN site on the grounds that "their show is just like ours, only it's about sci-fi instead of Japanese cartoons and the hosts are us in about 20 years."
As such, I have to confess that even as a listener to one of his shows, I don't know anything about the man personally other than the fact that he named his tumor Kuato. He certainly has no shortage of friends and associates in fandom, but who is Joe succeeded by? A wife? Children? A significant other? None of the above? None of the articles I find seem to make mention of any such information on the man, which makes my frequent on-air remarks about how "the fate of all obsessed fans such as myself is to die alone, just like Triumph said would happen" just slightly more grim than usual. - sijgsjf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0http://biosupport1.gsu.edu/_cusudi/000022aa.htm?Preteen-nudism-illegal-topless-toplist-lesbians
http://biosupport1.gsu.edu/_cusudi/000022ab.htm?Preteen-pussies-incest-panties-russian-galleries
http://biosupport1.gsu.edu/_cusudi/000022ac.htm?Preteen-nude-lolitas-girls-tgp-pics
http://biosupport1.gsu.edu/_cusudi/000022ad.htm?Preteen-photography-upskirt-innocent-models-hot
http://biosupport1.gsu.edu/_cusudi/000022ae.htm?Preteen-girl-pictures-sexy-underage-naturists - brainxs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Wow! Host is down.
- marthabrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks a lot! Nothing particular, but still interesting for me.
- vfrgurrl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Should any want more information about Joe, there will be a memorial show posted at www.michaelandevo.com later.
- Cremlian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whoops hate when I accidently minus a comment instead of plusing it...
- growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5The good people always seem to leave this world to early while the scum of society live on, thats ***** up. We'll miss you Joe
- NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1+2 for effort.
- jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1who?
- EvilDr.X, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1You scuk, you heartless prcik.
- g00dn3ss, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Plus, there is duplicate story on the front page.
- Atacand, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5He died doing what he loved: suffering from a horrible, rare, degenerative cancer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3I stand by my original comment. Sucks he died of cancer, but hundreds to thousands die and are diagnosed each year.. god help us if they all start making front page of digg. This kind of thing should be reserved for their website, not digg.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3Who the Fcuk is Joe?
Oh wait. Its ALICE i want to know about, not this Joe somebody or other. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -36/+3At least he didn't leave his wife and kids in a freezing car and wander off to die from exposure like some sort of selfish bastard!
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