seanessay.com Being sans car for a few days (I get it tomorrow), I spent today doing errands on public transit: train twice, bus thrice. Nice to connect with downtown again. “Don’t ever get a car,” I used to tell people, “for now I have lost touch with downtown.” On the electric train I admired the […]
The Lesson Youtube Forgot
seanessay.com On my hard drive are a few apps for avoiding Internet advertising. For me, they don’t work. Over in London in February, I was amazed at how often commercials interrupted my feed. A coincidence? A British thing? Back home—maybe I have a worm on my hard drive—the great number of interruptions continued. I conclude […]
Trump Craziness Comes to Canada
seanessay.com We Canadians are normally plain and sensible, but sometimes a wind of madness blows in from south of the border. When the United States went crazy, during the Vietnam years, the editor of the local University of Calgary student newspaper did an editorial for Remembrance Day. He said our soldiers in the trenches in […]
London Reaching for NonRacism
seanessay.com …The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there… L.P. Hartley, 1953 Hello from my London holiday! Do you and I have racism? You might reply, “Not-me!” I might reply, “Not exactly,” because certain justice warriors would say that every man, woman and child raised in North America has racism—regardless of their […]
Meeting a Man and His Dog in London
seanessay.com So there I was, in London under a dismal sky… trotting to catch the end of the walk signal, closing up behind a man with his leashed dog—and ya, I was judgmental over his lack of traffic punctuality: even though I was slow too. Once across, we had a block-long grassy park on our […]
Don’t Buy the Brooklyn Peace Bridge From the Kremlin
seanessay.comToday I will post a clip of a trumpet playing during Navalny’s funeral. This week we learned that Navalny, safely off in a penal colony, or so I thought, was killed by the Kremlin, using a toxin not found in Europe, never found there (because of diet) in any captive animal. We are talking of […]