essaysbysean.blogspot.com Michael Lewis not just an excellent researcher, not just an excellent explainer, he is also an excellent writer. You can see all three qualities just by picking up any of his books, summoning your focus, and reading at random a couple paragraphs without skimming. You may examine his latest, because it is out […]
Social Media was Scary in 1962
seanessay.com One exasperated child to another: Oh, bug off! Sean to a troll: Click off! Last week I was on the phone long distance to my cousin. She’s pretty and blond, yet not dumb. I mentioned that, thanks to the BBC News web page showing which U.S. states were trying to roll back the federal […]
Lost Merry Christmas Links
seanessay.com Well, I wanted to put up a merry post for you. Nothing hard, no prose, only links to three or four songs, and two or three Youtube clips of funny TV shows. Like I did on my old blog for the Christmas of 2019, except that this time, because my new blog has a […]
What’s It All About, Seanie?
essaysbysean.com After one hundred blog essays, I suppose I should “build my character” by “considering the worst,” even if this stabs my vanity, by asking Is there any meaning to it all? Sometimes I stand in a dark void, albeit with pretty stars, feeling my writing is futile. Around me the space age has passed […]
A Christmas Mondegreen Bright, with Social Covid Too
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 […]