Sean Shannon

New blog on marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the house fire earlier this month, and how unreal so much of this stuff from my past is starting to feel.

New blog on turning fifty and just wanting to get back to work on my next book.

New blog on dealing with the life-threatening cold that's blanketed this half of the country for over the past week.

New blog on the ongoing nightmare that is playing through Stranger of Paradise and Final Fantasy XV, and feeling like Sq***nix never really did care about what gamers like me wanted out of video games.

Oh hey, my personal website turns twenty-five years old today. I wrote something for the occasion. Don't read it. No one else does.

New blog about feeling stupid for thinking that video game studios ever cared about telling good stories in their games, especially after playing the recent Final Fantasy VII remakes.

New blog on fearing the worst for the shows I've been listening to from my hometown's public radio station, after the recent federal funding cuts and all that.

New blog on the importance of story for helping us prepare for the vicissitudes of life, and how playing so many underwhelming RPGs lately is making me seriously worry for our future.

New blog on struggling to deal with the recent death of Jill Sobule.

New blog on turning forty-nine earlier this month and ... not much else, really.

New blog on the cruelty of removing access to income-based repayment plans for college loans here in America, and how it fits into the broader attacks on higher education over the past few decades. https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5870

New blog on the origins of the corporate "efficiency" regime in the nineties, and how its intrusion into education has poisoned generations of young Americans into accepting its cruelty. https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5864

New blog on the need for colleges and universities to not surrender to the attempts to prevent inclusion on our campuses.

New blog on the push to force statewide school voucher schemes across the US.

New blog on taking the leap into short "vertical video" content, even if only as a producer.