Sean Newman

Return the Black Hills to native people. Other places would also be good, don’t get me wrong, but there is so much mineral wealth in the Black Hills that deserves infinitely better stewardship and isn’t gonna get it as long as mining companies can just walk onto public land.

That moment when you're in the process of breaking an idea for a new horror story and you're struggling to understand what the monstrous force you've concocted means until, at last, it hits you in the face like a 2x4 and you suddenly generate three whole pages of notes.

Time to go crush 8 hours of production meetings. Let's do this.

People who think working in the arts isn't an actual job are absolutely delusional.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

How long will we be hijacked by centrists, cowards and Chuck Schumer?

a stuffed frog is floating in a red bowl of water . Alt: A Kermit the Frog plush with its mouth open swirls around clockwise in a red bucket being filled with water.

My last brain cell having just prepped pages upon pages of notes for the two massive back-to-back production meetings that I have tomorrow

After listening to the new Mountain Goats record, I really hope more artists follow their lead and start including an Overture on their albums. Give me a taste of what's to come. Establish your motifs. I want something from that first track to come back later in the album and smack me in the face.

This is something Robin Williams once referred to as Economic Freebasing- a term that nobody has been able to top in almost 15 years.

Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

So I'm doing my annual rewatch of The Lost Boys and I'll say it again just like I say it every year: nobody cornered the market on playing beleaguered mothers in the 80s quite like Dianne Wiest. We salute an icon.

If you can swing it, *now* is the time to donate to your local food bank. Hard working families in your cities need you now more than ever.

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Man, nothing hits like that sudden switch in weather that sends you scrambling for your knitwear and jackets.

It kind of just hit me that I've spent my year directing two shows that have meant the world to me for over a decade. What a wonderful job I have that I get to work on projects that hold so much meaning to me.

With the end of several months' worth of back to back production work rapidly approaching, the writer in my brain is starting to stir from his hibernation. Man, I can't wait to stretch that particular creative muscle again!

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.

They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Now that I'm on the other side of opening weekend for Pippin, I can officially say that I have completed work on a total of four different shows since the first of August. I've been absolutely blessed with work of late, but my God, am I ready to get some rest!

Rewatching Pumpkinhead hits different when there's a massive crack of thunder right outside your front window at the precise moment the titular monster is brought to life. Welcome to Fall, everybody!

Just gonna leave this here…

There's really no substitute for stress like playing D&D with some of my best friends. What a monumentally healing afternoon that was.

Sometimes, you have to break up your day of prop building with a session or two of Silksong. Look, this is just what happens when great games come out during production month. I don't make the rules.

Sometimes doing a friend a favor means taking a few days out of your life to play one of the Pevensie kids after they've been chilling out and ruling Narnia for a couple decades. And you know what? There are worse favors I could think of.

Like this isn't a "no ethical consumption under capitalism" thing where sometimes you have to buy food or toilet paper from a corporation you don't like.

No one's making you type in prompts to make your dumb little pictures. It's not a survival thing. You just Want To and you need an excuse.

Gavin Newsom can eat rocks. And so can you, if you support him.

A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

If he was going around saying 25 year old women are too young to make decisions about abortion, I wonder if he’d have such diehard lib support. Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy.

I'm so grateful to be working with a cast that's not only deeply dedicated to what we're working on but that are so kind, so joyful, and so happy to share the room with one another. It's inspiring, it's revitalizing, & it's incredibly special. It makes the good days grand and the hard days worth it.