Sean Nelson
@seantroversy.bsky.social
“I chose writer that day.” -Spalding Gray. See also: Music, film, books, podcasts, moderate ‘90s Rip Van Winkle tendencies.
The good old English language has sustained some heavy-ass blows in the past couple-few decades (not all unwarranted) but “died by suicide” is omnidirectionally poor.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The good old English language has sustained some heavy-ass blows in the past couple-few decades (not all unwarranted) but “died by suicide” is omnidirectionally poor.
Some personal news: In lowering my head to take a bite of a very melty ice cream sandwich a few moments ago, I managed to smear ice cream all over the left lens of my glasses. I’m considering leaving there as a warning to all that it’s never too late to hit a new all-time low.
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Some personal news: In lowering my head to take a bite of a very melty ice cream sandwich a few moments ago, I managed to smear ice cream all over the left lens of my glasses. I’m considering leaving there as a warning to all that it’s never too late to hit a new all-time low.
The art of conversation: Hang in there until someone uses the word “liminal,” then lift your index finger for a single beat, gather your belongings, and split in a hurry.
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The art of conversation: Hang in there until someone uses the word “liminal,” then lift your index finger for a single beat, gather your belongings, and split in a hurry.
You'd have to go back to the glory of @hodgman's first three audiobooks to even APPROACH the indisputable brilliance of this singularly edifying masterpiece, created by Richard Ayoade and abetted by Noel Fielding, Christopher Morris, Sally Hawkins, Lydia Fox, Stephen Merchant, and David Mitchell.
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
You'd have to go back to the glory of @hodgman's first three audiobooks to even APPROACH the indisputable brilliance of this singularly edifying masterpiece, created by Richard Ayoade and abetted by Noel Fielding, Christopher Morris, Sally Hawkins, Lydia Fox, Stephen Merchant, and David Mitchell.
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A quarter of a century after Warp released the sketch album, Darran Anderson looks back at the deep existential malignancy, and brilliance, of Blue Jam
An Unkind of Blue: Darran Anderson on #ChrisMorris’ #BlueJam
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An Unkind of Blue: Darran Anderson on #ChrisMorris’ #BlueJam
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October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A quarter of a century after Warp released the sketch album, Darran Anderson looks back at the deep existential malignancy, and brilliance, of Blue Jam
An Unkind of Blue: Darran Anderson on #ChrisMorris’ #BlueJam
buff.ly/18Q44rc
An Unkind of Blue: Darran Anderson on #ChrisMorris’ #BlueJam
buff.ly/18Q44rc
When the mobile dog groomer comes to town, even the best dogs are in huge trouble.
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
When the mobile dog groomer comes to town, even the best dogs are in huge trouble.
Also, “Even Lee Greenwood wouldn't sink that low.” -David Berman, letter to the editor of The Tennessean, June 28, 2002.
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Also, “Even Lee Greenwood wouldn't sink that low.” -David Berman, letter to the editor of The Tennessean, June 28, 2002.
This is the George HW Bush saying the American family should be more like the Waltons than the Simpsons of the nobody watches the Simpsons or remembers the Waltons anymore era.
lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is the George HW Bush saying the American family should be more like the Waltons than the Simpsons of the nobody watches the Simpsons or remembers the Waltons anymore era.
It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I manage not to ruin a photo by being in it.
Leaving this here for one very important reason: @seantroversy.bsky.social and I look great.
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I manage not to ruin a photo by being in it.
Excellent piece, excellent illustration, excellent film. In short: EXCELLENT!
September 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Excellent piece, excellent illustration, excellent film. In short: EXCELLENT!
The films are unsurpassed, obviously, but lately I fixate on the apparent fact that Aleister Crowley nearly married his mother. “More sugar, Mr. Crowley?” “Mr. Crowley was my *father*. Call me The Great Beast 666. And yes. Two lumps, please.”
The brilliant Preston Sturges was born on August 29, 1898 #botd 🎥 ✍️
August 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The films are unsurpassed, obviously, but lately I fixate on the apparent fact that Aleister Crowley nearly married his mother. “More sugar, Mr. Crowley?” “Mr. Crowley was my *father*. Call me The Great Beast 666. And yes. Two lumps, please.”
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Following that logic, it also led to our collaborating on this project, which brought me the singular, utter, joy of finding my work in a record store. In short, thanks, Marty. I owe you big time.
August 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Following that logic, it also led to our collaborating on this project, which brought me the singular, utter, joy of finding my work in a record store. In short, thanks, Marty. I owe you big time.
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Lauren Carroll Harris wrote an essay on Taxi Driver for this very magazine in 2015, and I did the illustration. @seantroversy.bsky.social purchased said illustration, and thus our connection was established.
Yada yada yada, we have a joint membership to our local indie cinema now.
Yada yada yada, we have a joint membership to our local indie cinema now.
August 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Lauren Carroll Harris wrote an essay on Taxi Driver for this very magazine in 2015, and I did the illustration. @seantroversy.bsky.social purchased said illustration, and thus our connection was established.
Yada yada yada, we have a joint membership to our local indie cinema now.
Yada yada yada, we have a joint membership to our local indie cinema now.
“Umm, I’m not sure it’s accurate to call the Velvet Underground ‘criminally underrated.’” -something I just said aloud to a YouTube video.
August 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“Umm, I’m not sure it’s accurate to call the Velvet Underground ‘criminally underrated.’” -something I just said aloud to a YouTube video.
On top of all the other true and right things people are saying about the great Tom Lehrer (personal idol since childbirth, etc.): Anyone who ever had a thing for using self-consciously polysyllabic words in pop songs owed him a LOT.
variety.com/2025/music/o...
variety.com/2025/music/o...
Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97
Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.
variety.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
On top of all the other true and right things people are saying about the great Tom Lehrer (personal idol since childbirth, etc.): Anyone who ever had a thing for using self-consciously polysyllabic words in pop songs owed him a LOT.
variety.com/2025/music/o...
variety.com/2025/music/o...
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Absolutely one of the best movies ever made, directed by the great actor Charles Laughton. But unfortunately a box office failure at the time, and Laughton never directed another movie. Such a bummer - I’m guessing he had more great films in him. (He stuck to directing theater after this)
The Night of the Hunter turns 70 today, on the short list of the movies that forever changed the medium
July 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Absolutely one of the best movies ever made, directed by the great actor Charles Laughton. But unfortunately a box office failure at the time, and Laughton never directed another movie. Such a bummer - I’m guessing he had more great films in him. (He stuck to directing theater after this)
You’re unlikely to find superior kreplach in any other airport.
July 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
You’re unlikely to find superior kreplach in any other airport.
None better than @briannaduggan.bsky.social
“You know, the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes after you, he doesn't seem to be livin' until he bites you."
“You know, the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes after you, he doesn't seem to be livin' until he bites you."
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done...
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
-Walt Whitman
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
-Walt Whitman
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
None better than @briannaduggan.bsky.social
“You know, the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes after you, he doesn't seem to be livin' until he bites you."
“You know, the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes after you, he doesn't seem to be livin' until he bites you."
Two of my favorite artists in one frame.
June 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Two of my favorite artists in one frame.
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If I sell 25 prints a day for the next couple of days I can pay my rent, which we love to do around here! Can we do it? I think we can! (All of these are currently available!)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
May 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If I sell 25 prints a day for the next couple of days I can pay my rent, which we love to do around here! Can we do it? I think we can! (All of these are currently available!)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
My high school production of Master Harold and the Boys may not have been the pinnacle of Fugard’s career on the legitimate stage, but it probably was of mine.
He was a giant.
He was a giant.
A giant of 20th century playwriting and a hugely important dissident artist reviled by his home country's government, a category about which we should probably start re-educating ourselves. RIP Athol Fugard. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...
Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Dissected Apartheid, Dies at 92
In works that included “Blood Knot,” “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and “The Island,” he exposed the realities of racial separatism in his homeland.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My high school production of Master Harold and the Boys may not have been the pinnacle of Fugard’s career on the legitimate stage, but it probably was of mine.
He was a giant.
He was a giant.