seanessay.com Remember how I posted here my comments from Athena’s blog? Her father, John Scalzi, has a blog too. He posted on Whatever last week. His point: Although John came up through journalism with a taste for politics, and although most of his friends are “political junkies,” he doesn’t expect other folks to talk politics. […]
Craving One On One Conversation
essaysbysean.blogspot.com Dear Derek, after your podcast interviews, (link) I’ve been thinking of what you said: You liked conversing with a lady Olympian who said, “I do not hang out.” You very much preferred one on one conversations that were not “hanging out.”. You would be so disappointed when a fellow would surprise you, after you […]
Kill the Artist, Burn the Bread
seanessay.com If we disrespect the baker, should we “cancel” the bread along with the maker? If an artist is a Bad Person, then must we “not enjoy” their arts and entertainment? An undergraduate, Athena Scalzi, recently on her blog, Whatever, wondered this, along with expressing concern for the innocent cast and crew who would lose […]
CBC has War of the Worlds
seanessay.com For those who came in late, since I’m getting hits on this: CBC is running the series again, and a season 2 (series 2) is starting in early October. Meanwhile: Most of my War of the Worlds poems are in my old blog, but a few are in this new blog, with the most […]
Gleaning Social Media
seanessay.com Gleaning, definition: finding scraps of knowledge on the web. My solution here is something I already know — run away from social media for some portion of the day. When I did that in the first half of June I did fine; when I didn’t in the second half, well. I lost a considerable […]
Champion to Orphans
essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Orphans make the best recruits.” M to 007, in Skyfall Although commonly disparaged in self-help books, Pollyanna is a nice novel. I enjoyed it as a classic about an impoverished orphan refusing to be defeated. Surely Amy Adams would have played the heroine if any Pollyanna movies been made during Amy’s girlhood: “I think […]