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— Rebecca Parker • Proverbs of Ashes (2001)
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\nOn that note, 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...
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Just re-watched: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) at an open-air screening at Kocherpark in Bern. Darkly comic, peak indie-pop roadtrip quirkfest with a gooey caramel center. If only togetherness and courage rose this easily out of deep family dysfunction in real life. These characters are only pretending to be losers. Still, there’s enough nutrition in this R-rated, live-action cousin to Pixar to inspire, say, a merely ...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://scottstilson.blog/2026/08/03/enough-interiority-how-shall-i.html","date_published":"2026-08-03T22:02:00+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":"2026-08-03 22:02","date_timestamp":1785794520,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94903703","content_html":"Just finished reading: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin.
\nAnarchy rules, maybe.
\nI think I ought to start steering clear of politically charged, interplanetary sci-fi. (I’m thinking here of how I couldn’t finish Dune.) The subgenre just doesn’t seem to do anything for me. It could be that I’m just not into politics, i.e., all activities concerning questions of who is in charge of what and how those people make the rules.
\nBut there were certain quotations I found beautiful or thought-provoking:
\n@mwerickson Does The Lord of the Rings count?
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