seanessay.com Respect was mutual and easy among two female sex workers and I after we three moved into a duplex together. Their boyfriends loved them. This would have been long after I had learned to make eye contact and do small talk. But years earlier, when I walked as a security guard along an avenue […]
My Mother-in-law is a Free Falling Train Wreck
Free Fall Friday is a time when me and my peers, cautious slow writers, can loosen up, forget our “silly, slow, edit-as-you go,” and just let her rip! We set a timer of ten or fifteen minutes, to write before we hit the ground. For today’s pieces, my peers said, “Blog it” and “This is […]
Quotation for America’s New Morning, November Six
seanessay.com We have always been at war with Eastasia. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
Bella Baxter As a Victorian Man From Mars
seanessay.com Having already seen the show in London, I just had to gleefully stride into the lobby of Calgary’s arthouse cinema, The Plaza, and proclaim at the counter, “One adult for Bella Baxter!” They knew I meant the controversial movie Poor Things, which several female journalists at a certain British well known progressive newspaper had […]
When Mentors are Merry and Gone
seanessay.com Strange how a person can significantly influence your life—and then that person is gone. For a buddy in the reserves, training in a mountain monsoon rainforest with members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, his mentor was a paratrooper who guided him through the worst. He told me they even had to sleep on sloping […]
Could the film Poor Things be feminist?
seanessay.com (Includes a new footnote for film critics) Opening Credits A “mainstream movie” is where I can confidently tell strangers how good it is; an “art house movie” is when I can’t rate it for you unless I know you. Sean C Teaser A dirty, disgusting movie? Disempowering? With much nudity, and much sex? Well, […]