seanessay.com Today my blog has a short “bright” thingy… and then a long “boring” thingy, which—although super important— you will merely skim over, trust me. First, the bright: Have you ever sung, in the Beatles song, for Get Back, “Lady Modern” instead of Lady Martin? Or, for their LSD song, “The girl with colitis goes […]
“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 […]
Social Media Obscures like Pond Scum
seanessay.com I often think of social media in the “long form.” For example, the stories that caused Europeans to burn cell towers, or the villagers in India to kill strangers, including a government man who had been sent to tell them not to kill, or, in America, causing a man to take a rifle into […]
A Bad, Bad Day, With Comments
seanessay.com I’m having a bad, bad day It’s about time That I get my way From the Despicable Me soundtrack Partly I feel bad today because my body is sick, too sick to attend a nice party tonight. The only productive thing I did today was make some comments on other blogs. My own blog […]
Social Media Frustrates me Again
seanessay.com Note: my sister lives in cattle country too, but in another time zone, “in the caribou,” in British Columbia. I could be hopping mad right now. Or I could let out all my air, sinking into depression, disgust and saying, “What’s the use?” I’d rather be mad. I was driving home a half hour […]
Revenge and Surprise
seanessay.com Our Free Fall Friday writing was founded by Mary, a dear retired lady. As we met on Fridays to freely scribble away, she would sometimes speak of having “writer’s revenge.” Her mother had often been rude to her, so writing was Mary’s chance to tell her side of the story. Like I do. Can […]