seanessay.com As I found in Derek Siver’s notes on the book Geography of Genius: “We’re not talking about conversation as a form of entertainment. We’re talking about conversation as the piling up of premises leading to a conclusion. We’re talking about conversation that takes an issue forward, conversation as a way of getting somewhere.” As […]
Lost Merry Christmas Links
seanessay.com Well, I wanted to put up a merry post for you. Nothing hard, no prose, only links to three or four songs, and two or three Youtube clips of funny TV shows. Like I did on my old blog for the Christmas of 2019, except that this time, because my new blog has a […]
What’s It All About, Seanie?
essaysbysean.com After one hundred blog essays, I suppose I should “build my character” by “considering the worst,” even if this stabs my vanity, by asking Is there any meaning to it all? Sometimes I stand in a dark void, albeit with pretty stars, feeling my writing is futile. Around me the space age has passed […]
“I’ve got nothin’!”
seanessay.com A lady at my local club, of Toastmasters International, told me something once. This when every speech and meeting role is evaluated. “I like how, if you don’t have anything to say, then you go, “I’ve got nothin’!” Or was she talking about our mass evaluations? I certainly won’t talk if everything relevant has […]
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 […]