seanessay.com The Peanuts cartoons had an arc where Peppermint Patty (struggles in school) is trying to teach Monica (wears glasses and reads) how to “hang out” at the mall: Patty demonstrates leaning on the wall looking sleepy eyed. Monica doesn’t get it. Back when I was more uptight I shared a duplex—we chose the place […]
Stress Makes Me Stupid
seanessay.com I know one thing for sure: Stress makes me stupid… As I write this, it is past three a.m., “the hour of the wolf” and I can’t sleep. Here’s the thing: A few years ago, for a week or two, I found myself under great stress. Self imposed, really, but stress nonetheless. And when […]
Cute Time and Space
seanessay.com In my Doctor Who Children’s Annual there was a drawing of Albert Einstein within a sidebar to explain space and time. The box read, (from memory) “There can be no space without time; there can be no time without space.” So every location is in space-time. I find it liberating to give respect to […]
Quotations for Radical Muslims
seanessay.com In the news today (Feb 8) the body of an elderly Syrian archeologist has been found. He was beheaded by extremists for not telling them where “idolatrous” treasures were hidden. I suspect that while the destruction of pre-Muslim stone pillars was for ideology, the pursuit of treasure was for a more worldly reason. As […]
Doctor Who and I Go Time Traveling
seanessay.com Oh, the things I’ve seen while time traveling from boyhood into my sixties. But first… For over 50 years I’ve been watching, when I can, the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Doctor Who, a show so well regarded that recently news about a change to the cast was on the BBC News website top […]
Death of Buffy
seanessay.com I am forever awed by the beautiful competency of television executive Joss Whedon’s handling of the death of Buffy Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (BtVS) I’m impressed, for one thing, that I’m not spoiling the plot, for any new viewers, by writing this essay, since Joss foreshadows her demise right from the first […]