seanessay.com From yesterday’s Free Fall Friday comes this a poem. Ignore my poetic license; Sir Winston Churchill did not exactly fail school, but he had his troubles. He started writing as a young man, and I am privileged to have several old volumes of his personal essays. Journalists may recall Strunk and White’s advice to […]
Placeholder For Babylon-5
seanessay.com As noted in my January 2021 post Death of Buffy, while the BBC, as shown on Canada’s CBC, made episodes designed to air in order, Hollywood television was still producing “stand alone” episodes. Just like during the radio days of Dragnet and Gun smoke. A cop show would have a murder of the week, […]
Poetry as a Placeholder
seanessay.com My week has been productive, but not blog-wise, because I’ve been on holiday, then working on a piece for my “Creative Nonfiction” class. Derek Sivers e-mailed me from New Zealand to ask about the class, but it was too hard for me to describe without oversimplifying and thereby misleading. So I sent him an […]
Flower Child Angrily Told to Go Take a Hike
seanessay.com from Free Fall Friday No, I’m not nostalgic for the sixties. OK, for some of the fashions, maybe, but mostly it was a big hoax. Someone came across a girl by some park bleachers, perfectly looking like a hippie in a buckskin jacket, headband and so forth, a girl with a clear complexion. Turned […]
Barbarians At the Campus Gate
seanessay.com I already knew about unbelievable student barbarians gathering at certain Canadian campuses: Trying to silence Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson when he is invited to campus to speak, even though he denies being transphobic. Now, this week, I see it happening over in England, with students trying to get Professor Kathleen Stock fired. At least […]
Sue is Boggled, While Jung Extricates Her
seanessay.com The strange civilian was struggling to speak. “I, har… I.” Jung knew the signs instantly. “He’s had truth-tell, like for interrogations.” The girl said hesitantly, “Yes?” “Look: He’s got the blue lips of oxygen loss, a side effect; the stammer and the quivering lips of the main drug acting; and he may start talking […]