<\/center><\/p>\nI was flattered yesterday to find that Mark Sullivan<\/a> named Scuffulans hirsutus<\/em> as a “thoughtful blog.”<\/a> I was also a little surprised. I’ve retired from the thinking business, and nowadays I mostly just take pictures, pretty and otherwise. (There may be more music in the future, but thoughts will probably remain rare and fragmentary.)<\/p>\n The rules:<\/p>\n 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, This particular game started back in February, and probably every weblog that has provoked any thoughts anywhere has already been recognized. Nevertheless, I’ll list five deserving sites just in case any have been overlooked.<\/p>\n Aliens in This World<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d everything from the motu proprio<\/em> to Megatokyo<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Dyspeptic Mutterings<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the art of the fisk, Byzantium, and science fiction, too.<\/p>\n Eve Tushnet<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if there ever was an insightful blogger, it’s Eve.<\/p>\n Total Dick-Head<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d i.e., Philip K. Dick.<\/p>\n Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d reflections on literature, life and Catholicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was flattered yesterday to find that Mark Sullivan named Scuffulans hirsutus as a “thoughtful blog.” I was also a little surprised. I’ve retired from the thinking business, and nowadays I mostly just take pictures, pretty and otherwise. (There may be more music in the future, but thoughts will probably remain rare and fragmentary.) The … Continue reading “Think, thank, thunk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances","category-weird-world-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1oF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Link to this post<\/a> so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
\n3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote…<\/em><\/p>\n