essaysbysean.blogspot.com By the time I was leaving elementary school several changes (I forget) had been made to the TV world. Each change had resulted in a journalist writing in the newspaper entertainment section that a new level of quality broadcasting was imminent. I recall cynically telling my teacher for grades six and seven, Mr. Macintyre, […]
Placeholder For Babylon-5
seanessay.com As noted in my January 2021 post Death of Buffy, while the BBC, as shown on Canada’s CBC, made episodes designed to air in order, Hollywood television was still producing “stand alone” episodes. Just like during the radio days of Dragnet and Gun smoke. A cop show would have a murder of the week, […]
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 […]
Stress Makes Me Stupid
seanessay.com I know one thing for sure: Stress makes me stupid… As I write this, it is past three a.m., “the hour of the wolf” and I can’t sleep. Here’s the thing: A few years ago, for a week or two, I found myself under great stress. Self imposed, really, but stress nonetheless. And when […]
Quotations for Radical Muslims
seanessay.com In the news today (Feb 8) the body of an elderly Syrian archeologist has been found. He was beheaded by extremists for not telling them where “idolatrous” treasures were hidden. I suspect that while the destruction of pre-Muslim stone pillars was for ideology, the pursuit of treasure was for a more worldly reason. As […]