{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Scott Stilson","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/scottstilson","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1619169","username":"scottstilson","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":7,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png"},"items":[{"id":"98091034","content_html":"<p>Last night in the 1 o’clock hour I dreamt (again) that I was playing the part of Captain Hook. Or more precisely put, that I was backstage getting ready to play Hook, this time by donning my costume. As always in this subgenre of Scottdream, the peril involved was that of missing my entrance. 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On my worst days…grrrrrrrr, uuuugghh, and yaaaaargh.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/20/theres-always-more-in-life.html","date_published":"2026-09-20T17:26:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-20 17:26","date_timestamp":1789925190,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97874451","content_html":"<p>Just watched: <a href=\"https://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes\"><em>The Lady Vanishes</em></a> (1938). Light, absorbing prewar comedy thriller as parable of Britain wrestling with the continental question (and Englishmen being Englishmen).</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/20/just-watched-the-lady-vanishes.html","date_published":"2026-09-20T17:24:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-20 17:24","date_timestamp":1789925068,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97810762","content_html":"<p>Just listened to: <a href=\"https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/opus-1-3-church-sonatas\"><em>Corelli: Opus 1 &amp; 3: Church Sonatas</em></a> (2014) recorded at <a href=\"https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/13785/\">St. George’s Church</a> in Cambridge on Linn by <a href=\"http://www.avisonensemble.com/\">The Avison Ensemble</a>. Stately but not stuffy. Pretty but not precious. Backgroundable but not boring. And full of emotion—especially Opus 1, which often turns my ears with its late Renaissance...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/19/just-listened-to-corelli-opus.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/19/just-listened-to-corelli-opus.html","date_published":"2026-09-19T10:53:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-19 10:53","date_timestamp":1789815192,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97776073","content_html":"<p>But the real question is: Is it harder to use all four limbs to play five quasi-independent musical voices on a pipe organ or to sing into a microphone while using all four limbs to drum?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/18/but-the-real-question-is.html","date_published":"2026-09-18T19:10:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-18 19:10","date_timestamp":1789758627,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97688236","content_html":"<p>“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/17/when-man-invented-the-bicycle.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/17/when-man-invented-the-bicycle.html","date_published":"2026-09-17T10:13:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-17 10:13","date_timestamp":1789639983,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97367939","content_html":"<p>I carry a bias against psychotropic drugs because the world around me seems to carry a bias toward them. If I know myself, then if the obverse were true of the world, the obverse would be true of me. I’m not anti-meds. I’m anti-defaulting and anti-pushing.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/11/i-carry-a-bias-against.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T16:25:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 16:25","date_timestamp":1789143942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97106013","content_html":"<p>The pleasure I remember deriving—and still derive—from performing my greatest individual musical triumphs—singing “Once In A Lifetime” at high school commencement, earning the Valjean understudy role in FUSE’s semi-pro staging of <em>LES MIS</em>, delivering “She Loves Me” at my FUSE cabaret debut, rendering the...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/07/the-pleasure-i-remember-derivingand.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/07/the-pleasure-i-remember-derivingand.html","date_published":"2026-09-07T11:30:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 11:30","date_timestamp":1788780624,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96922753","content_html":"<p>Going into rereading the gospel according to Mark as translated by David Bentley Hart, I for some reason had it in my head that I’d be encountering the most boring of our four canonical renditions of Jesus. Yet four chapters in, I <em>like</em> this Guy. Picking up where John the Baptizer left off, He’s...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/03/going-into-a-rereading-the.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/03/going-into-a-rereading-the.html","date_published":"2026-09-04T00:38:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-04 00:38","date_timestamp":1788482330,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96824460","content_html":"<p>From a national security perspective, rampant monolingualism seems like a clear strategic disadvantage.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/09/02/from-a-national-security-perspective.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T12:04:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 12:04","date_timestamp":1788350679,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96731983","content_html":"<p>Just watched: <a href=\"https://a24films.com/films/everything-everywhere-all-at-once\"><em>Everything Everywhere All At Once</em></a> (2022). 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The power to hold and the power to let go, to connect and to disconnect, each of these powers can be used for good or for ill.</p>\n<p>Ethical maturity learns the difference and knows the right time for each. Neither power can be valorized as an absolute good without risking harm.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>— Rebecca Parker • Proverbs of Ashes (2001)</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/30/both-our-capacity-for-connection.html","date_published":"2026-08-30T17:52:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-30 17:52","date_timestamp":1788112320,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96604730","content_html":"<p>Just listened to: <a href=\"https://matadorrecords.com/products/villains\"><em>Villains</em></a> (2017) by Queens of the Stone Age. 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This blindness has gotten me into trouble, some barely worth calling trouble at all (feeling I’ve wasted my time reading I book I didn’t like)—and some quite worthy of the word “trouble”...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/28/historically-it-has-been-difficult.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/28/historically-it-has-been-difficult.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T12:15:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 12:15","date_timestamp":1787919346,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96523866","content_html":"<p>Just finished reading: <a href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242408142-pushing-the-envelope\"><em>Pushing the Envelope: A Memoir by Mike “the Mailman” Herr as Told to Marykate Herr Weeks</em></a> (2025). Not a great book, but its delightfully puckish, breezily generous, contagiously upbeat subject comes through clearly, and that’s what matters. The world needed some durable record of the...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/just-finished-reading-pushing-the.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/just-finished-reading-pushing-the.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T00:38:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 00:38","date_timestamp":1787877497,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96548338","content_html":"<p>That tendency based on recency bias to assert in a spat with a spouse, parent, or child that “you always do <em>X</em>”? It appears to have intrapersonal analogs. For example, when:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>there’s one outstanding thing on my to-do list weighing on me that makes me exclaim things like, “I never have enough time!”; or when</li>\n<li>on...</li>\n</ul> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/that-tendency-based-on-recency.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/that-tendency-based-on-recency.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T00:01:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-28 00:01","date_timestamp":1787875260,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96548318","content_html":"<p>On <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/historically-it-has-been-difficult.html\">that note</a>, after some time this morning on a walk asking for Your help sussing out an answer to that perennial question about what I want to do as it regards music, having missed out on Wednesday’s fifth anniversary celebration of the open mic Stacy hosts at The Speakeasy, I think I have an answer...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/on-that-note-after-some.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/on-that-note-after-some.html","date_published":"2026-08-27T23:43:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 23:43","date_timestamp":1787874180,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96548283","content_html":"<p>Historically, it has been difficult for me to distinguish ahead of time what I want from what I merely <em>think</em> I want. This blindness has gotten me into trouble, some barely worth calling trouble at all (feeling I’ve wasted my time reading I book I didn’t like)—and some quite worthy of the word “trouble”...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/historically-it-has-been-difficult.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/historically-it-has-been-difficult.html","date_published":"2026-08-27T23:21:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 23:21","date_timestamp":1787872860,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96486055","content_html":"<p>“Today you are young and very much in love and you think that your love can sustain your marriage. It can’t. Let your marriage sustain your love” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “A Wedding Sermon from a Prison Cell” in <em><a href=\"https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9780800697037/Letters-and-Papers-from-Prison\">Letters and Papers from Prison</a></em>, as quoted by <a href=\"https://griffingooch.substack.com/p/why-lifeless-rituals-are-better-than#:~:text=While%20giving%20a%20homily%20at%20a%20young%20couple%E2%80%99s%20wedding,%20Dietrich%20Bonhoeffer%20gave%20this%20advice:%20%E2%80%9CToday%20you%20are%20young%20and%20very%20much%20in%20love%20and%20you%20think%20that%20your%20love%20can%20sustain%20your%20marriage.%20It%20can%E2%80%99t.%20Let%20your%20marriage%20sustain%20your%20love.%E2%80%9D17\">Griffin Gooch</a></p>\n<p>It’s been awhile since I’ve attended a...</p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/today-you-are-young-and.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/27/today-you-are-young-and.html","date_published":"2026-08-27T11:53:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-27 11:53","date_timestamp":1787831606,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96300690","content_html":"<p>Trump lawyers = trompe-l’œilers. 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No airs, never demanded special attention, seemed to always keep his insecurities to himself even when he was a kid in his twenties” (a stagehand who worked with Stewart in 1934, according to Scott Eyman in </p> <a href=\"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/20/jimmy-stewart-may-have-been.html\">scottstilson.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/20/jimmy-stewart-may-have-been.html","date_published":"2026-08-20T22:28:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Scott Stilson","url":"http://scottstilson.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4348ffd0b35a32df94564787510365c5%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"scottstilson"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-20 22:28","date_timestamp":1787264922,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96121544","content_html":"<p>“Amateur work is fun but the price for it is just simply tremendous. In the end you get ‘Thank you’ and that’s all. You give three performances which everybody promptly forgets and somebody has a breakdown—that somebody being the enthusiast” (F. 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