seanessay.com Continuing my late October blog theme of lifetime leisure: On the show Saturday Night Live a comedian scolded, “Get a life!” No doubt this was a twist on the slogan of the well rounded Ancient Greeks, “Not life, but a good life, is expected of every citizen.” Do trolls have a life? As you […]
Liking Alita the Angel, but not SJWs
seanessay.com Alita: Battle Angel is back in the cheap theatres! Hurray! I once felt moved to defend it from unkind social justice warriors. (SJWs) Here is my old post, condensed: Madeline wrote: “Moviegoers give this film 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, while critics give it 52%… Does anyone see the problem here?” I was on Youtube, […]
Have Social Skills, Will Travel
seanessay.com Derek Sivers’s blog has scores of comments for his recent Travelling Just for the People. (Instead for landmarks and tourist sights) A few of the commenters, no doubt representing many lurkers, lamented they don’t know how to meet the locals. “Not even in bars and cafes” says one, explaining he came from a more […]
Flying Farm Boy Meets Old Man
seanessay.com Flying to London, I met an artist. Not on the plane, at the airport. A “young man from a farm” who is a singer-songwriter, who posted his songs on various social media, media whose names I can’t even remember—I’m too old to go there. His international audience likes his pieces about the humour in […]
Poor Traveller Meets Millionaire
seanessay.com There was a time when I mock-grouched, “Work colleagues can travel home to Asia and Africa, while I can’t even afford to fly to Saskatchewan.” (the next province over) Then a colleague at work, one year, flew to see the WWI battlefields in France. Well. So I decided to finally start budgeting too: Being […]
Free Fall Anticipation of Retirement
seanessay.com They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Lawrence Binyon Inscribed at the Scottish National War Memorial I was there, at the memorial in Edinburgh, back […]