The puppy is cute. The toy is cute. Together? A horror story.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

“What if we made a movie? But without a camera? Or film? …Or words!” - The Improv Movement Project IMP is back @ MN Fringe in Aug, randomly mixing and matching genres on the fly, to create totally spontaneous, totally original, totally speechless cinematic classics on stage, before your very eyes!

Help! Seeking recommendations of audiobooks (or other long-form audio) performed in authentic Scottish accent(s), for the sake of accent mastery. What you got, BlueSky?

Absolutely beautiful Steve Sack

JFC

I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.

God I wish we lived in a world where the closure of The Kennedy Center were the outrage we could focus on right now.

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

I'd prefer Bovino were staying in tiny little handcuffs, but I guess I'll settle for leaving in disgrace.

Rebellions are built on ope. #minnesotaproud #fuckice

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

The wise fear the anger of a gentle city

Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.

ICE not allowing agents to have unsupervised copies of ICE policies or to take any notes is an admission by ICE that it knows the policies are illegal.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Gotta say: Trump and the Republican Party driving the country off a cliff is not the Thelma & Louise remake I was ever hoping to see.

The # of people not in Mpls telling me I'm wrong about what is happening in my own neighborhood... that I'm just blinded by hate or TDS or easily manipulated by anger... Sympathies to women, BIPOC, and others who have to put up with this kind of gaslighting on the regular. So exhausting. #fuckice

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

Read 85 books in 2025. Find me on thestorygraph.com for list and ratings (@seandillon). #1 fav of 2025: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social Just... impeccable. Total home run. Recommend it in the strongest possible terms to anyone who loves horror.

Last read of 2025. This one has been sitting on my bedside table a loooong time. Interesting to me as a horror theater maker, but SO dry and academic.

Latest read. This one exists only digitally, and it is exciting both for being a collection of 35 stories by the new guard in horror fiction, and for heralding a new horror imprint from Tor Books. Like any anthology, some bits better than others. But all in all, a strong, strong read.

Latest read. Wonderful, but took me 2 years to finish. 100 2-page short stories? ADHD recipe for disaster. Very impressive though… manages to approach the idea of ghosts in 100 original ways, never finding a rut. In that sense, reminds me of Einstein’s Dreams… with more quantity and less depth.

Latest read. Vampire novella predating Dracula by a quarter century. And wowwy the sapphic subtext. Short and sweet, and very cinematic before cinema was a thing.

Latest read. Some nice, genuinely unnerving moments, but scattershot plotting, lax editing, and some very uneven audio reading and production choices lost me. Not my bag.

Latest read. I ♥️ book cover design. For about 5 years in my 20s, I considered going back to school for it. Confoundingly, this is the prettiest, most annoying book I read all year. Not room here to expound, but briefly: per this book, the book cover design world revolves around Peter Mendelsund.

Latest read. Of King’s work, not my favorite. That all the best stories have all had movies made of them since probably doesn’t help. Several of the remaining stories are just… so broad. Pretty amazing voice cast though.

Merry (Re)Xmas to all our amazing friends, and wishing you the best of all possible 2026s. Love - Sean, Mal, Arlo, and Peripety “Rippy” Dillon

Latest read. For a long time seemed like it was going to tip into the supernatural, the horrors here are all too real and human. A well-crafted keyhole into reservation life… at least that’s what it was for me, a white dude.

Latest read #2. Title might have ended “…at the Moth,” because it is very geared that direction (though generalizable). Struggled to finish - never managed to conceive the story of my own worth telling. The audiobook uses so many clips from actual Moth shows… how was this ever just a book?

Latest read. Loved her Lost Village last year. This one is also great. Seems to have a schtick: past narrative and present narrative grow together into one narrative as secrets unfold. Not at all sure I’d call it horror, but it had its tense moments.

While I’m sure accepting his legacy has been healthy for Joe, I miss the guy who was working hard to get out of Dad’s shadow. His stuff was so strange and lovely and NOT King-y. Still, Hill is a pleasure to read. Which is a good thing, since this is in a sense a 6-book series in a single volume.

Latest read. This was fine. Less focused on its theme than I was hoping.