seanessay.com …The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there… L.P. Hartley, 1953 Hello from my London holiday! Do you and I have racism? You might reply, “Not-me!” I might reply, “Not exactly,” because certain justice warriors would say that every man, woman and child raised in North America has racism—regardless of their […]
Jane’s Tears Forgotten Like Rain
seanessay.com When I awoke this morning Jane was alive. I took the subway to Leicester Square and walked down in a light rain past my favourite London alley, one that passed for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter movies. I like how for we the living, amidst the grey, fantasy brightens things up. The “Diagon” […]
Whining About Trump is for Wimps
seanessay.com My favourite Republican is “The Governator,” the former state governor of California. On a web sound bite recently, I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger say with emphasis, “Don’t whine!” Perhaps he thought whiners are without hope. Ya, but Arnie himself has spoken on YouTube, in fact once I linked to his words about Ukraine. You may […]
A Citizen’s Parody Comedy Conduit Post
seanessay.com Today I feel like posting a comical conduit post. Remember when the Internet was new? When newspapers would run reviews of web sites for people to look at? Soon blogs appeared that might be divided into two types: destination blogs, such as my essays, and conduit blogs, where those who found the site were […]
How Extremist Liberals Make Me Gnash My Teeth
seanessay.com I imagine an “Extremist Liberal” (not you or I) thinking the reason for the old 12-mile limit, for territorial waters, was that countries had calmly, from a sense of fairness, agreed on what would be a proper limit for lobster traps, fishing stocks and so forth—Nonsense! The range of a shore defence cannon was […]
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 […]