seanessay.com The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings RLS—Robert Louis Stevenson To live, how amazing! Sean Crawford A Housewife Time Traveled As for amazing, you may recall that in the major motion picture, Peggy Sue Got Married, she is a wife and […]
Popular Nerd Proofing for Spies and Diplomats
seanessay.com “As I see it, to be a pink monkey that rolls in the mud to look safely brown, is to “nerd proof.” Truly an excellent skill, provided I copy regular folks only from awareness, not from fear.” (From the previous (Part Two) nerd essay of Sean Crawford) To me, “Nerd proofing” would include the […]
Firefly was a Masterpiece
seanessay.com My buddy Blair (deceased) was brilliant, and I’d like to guest-post his take on the TV show Firefly… As for Firefly, you know how some shows only manage to go one season? Or only halfway, until Christmas? Firefly didn’t even make it that far. Which sounds bad, but— copies were soon flying off the […]
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 […]
Martian Machine Passing Parthenon
essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Martian Machine Passing Parthenon” Being the title of a photolithograph, from after the War of the Worlds. Prologue Chief Engineer Gordon Malloy of “The Orville” (TV) in Lasting Impressions: “We look at these images of people who lived hundreds of years ago, and they’re so distant looking, that it’s easy to think that they […]