Sean Äaberg

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THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 08

The presidential debate was really disturbing. Watching Trump & Biden face off as caricatures of themselves was horrible. They were both lying, Trump was such a blow hard, Biden was such a doddering old man. Dividing this country into people who back a con-man & a ghost is a disservice & an embarrassment. We deserve better. They both need to stand down or be taken down. The world needs a USA that isn’t distracted by this nonsense. We’ve got more important things to do. By the ...

MOUNT HOOD

Part of my desire is to push the importance of Mt. Hood.

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 07

I’ve not been working on the weekends for a while. Before the stroke I used to work 16 hour days regularly, on the weekends, whenever. There were plenty of fun things to do , life was great, but I didn’t ever take a meaningful break. The idea of taking a break was totally alien to me. I thought I didn’t need to! I was really wrong. I found myself in the hospital wondering what happened. I’ve been goal & work oriented my whole life, I still am. I just soldier forth. Despite being v...

EXPLORATIONS

I'm, coming upon something, stay tuned,

THE CON MAN & THE GHOST

We watched the presidential “debate” last night. The con man & the ghost did worse than I expected but at least there was the civilized structure of debate. I know Democracy is designed to let off steam & have rival factions peacefully hold power. But the way we do politics is such a waste of emotion, money, time, energy, etc. Pic by Katie to remind us of the glory of the natural world.

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 06

I’ve been watching Portland & Multnomah County council meetings for the last year & a half. Portland & all the big West Coast cities have been going through a similar crisis of civilization. Portland, a magical blend of woke & white trash has had it worse. I took civilization for granted until I lived in Eugene, Oregon. I saw that nature would easily take over the city if you didn’t keep up with basic things like sweeping your porch or mowing your lawn, quickly resulting i...

IT'S A PROMISE

Although my old way would be to declare this & then go to earth tones! I haven't been contradictory like that for a while!

PIXEL ART 03

This piece shows Choronzon the Symbolic. Choronzon is not really an individual. Choronzon is an energy that occupies a living rock that looks like a leafless pineapple but swivels around like a puzzle & each square contains a symbol. This tenebrous entity is the creator of all culture. Choronzon has no fixed size nor fixed complexity, but changes form & magnitude at will, depending on the audience. Choronzon is served by a cult of hyper-literate Goblins that wear Choronzon masks &...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 05

Ever since I had the stroke my emotions have been on a lightswitch. I feel them very intensely for a brief period of time. I figured this out when it was almost Christmas, I was rehabilitating  at the hospital & I was crying so easily, by things like gift exchanges & carollers, things that wouldn’t have affected me at all in the past. I also was being touched by media in a way that I had never been. Movies & Songs could touch me, & anything morbid felt unnecessarily so....

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 04

I read the Tao Te Ching when I was 14 or so & it had a huge impact on me. Even though I was devoted to the Punk world of agitation & obnoxiousness I could tell that Taoism spoke to me on a deeper, more profound level. At the time I had no spiritual grounding or practice so I applied the general philosophy to the things around me. Particularly politics. Everyone around me was always trying to emphasize the “this side” version of politics & even though I would be swept up in the...

PIXEL ART 02

I'm excited to eventually translate these things into mosaics!

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS...

I’m sure most of you have noticed that social media hasn’t been delivering like it used to & now the stream is a pathetic trickle. New platforms come in all the time making the stream even weaker. So many people say to adapt to the algorithm & conform to the new social media landscape, like so many Vannah Whites holding up letters for the audience to see. “Do a little dance.” It’s hard, because I have to make money off of my art, but also, I’ve used social media since it d...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 02

Yesterday some Jehovah’s Witnesses came to my door. I could tell they were Jehovah’s Witnesses before they announced themselves because you never see such scrubbed, put-together, friendly-looking white folks in my neighborhood. I haven’t had the time or energy to interact with the Jehovah’s Witnesses for a long time, since we moved from Eugene to Portland, since the business grew multiple times, since I had the stroke. It has probably been a decade & a half. Yesterday I decided to...

THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 01

I'm starting a new project, making my daily email from GOBLINKO (sign up if you're not) more involved & working on my writing more. The only way to get better at something is to do it more often & be more deliberate!

Okay, people overwhelmingly wanted more writing so here we are. I'm concentrating more on my writing & this daily email seemed like an obvious vehicle for it. I realized the other day ...

DREAM HOUSE

I haven’t been writing down my dreams here because they’ve been so mundane, cool to experience but not really worth telling but last night I had a dream where we had bought a big old Victorian house in Chicago & were getting it ready to live in. I want to add that I’m not disabled in my dreams, I can walk normally & even draw! Anyhow, the first part of this dream was just cleaning up & exploring the house, the second part was phenomenal! I was out exploring the garden, which...

NEW PIXEL ART

I have a minute between projects so I'm able to think about new projects & just do some art! Some of my best artistic concepts come from when I just give myself space to create, instead of working like a machine. So...

THE GOBLINKO GANG

The original GOBLINKO GANG that were released as stickers & some of the designs were reused for other things… probably 2012 or so….

GERMANGLISH

From the Battle For Brüttelburg Kickstarter. When I was a kid in the 80s my dad went to Japan on tour (he's a Musician) & came back with reports of the Japanese use of English. In 1993 Dave Barry Does Japan came out & cemented the use of English in this way for me. By this time I had been collecting all sorts of Japanese things & had become very used to how Japan used Western things. I loved the unexpected twist that using English in this way created. So, I decided to use German ...

HING FAT

I learned that these are called Hing Fat Monsters by collectors, I drew my own versions of a bunch of these for DUNGEON DEGENERATES, knowing that the D&D Rust Monster & Bulette have their origins in Chinasaurs! It makes me a little desirous for that prs-internet secrecy, but, no one really notices!

LOYALTY

As the drum-beat of the election draws near, & I'm working on a piece about the Children of the Wurstreich, this quote came to me. "Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at le...

ON GOBLINS

Goblins in General

The Goblins of the Würstreich have been around for as long as anyone can remember. Their malodorous, pulsating, writhing, sweaty, disgusting origins are covered in a pungent muck & shrouded in a choking, sulphurous smoke & totally unknown to the pen of any historian or scientist, but they have been man’s constant companion throughout the ages. 

Goblins are a quasi-daemonic race of nasty, filthy, sadistic creatures that hav...

DUNGEON DEGENERATES: THE EXPANSIONING

The people have spoken! The number of people who wanted three separate campaigns could be counted on one hand. So we're going to do three distinct boxes in one Kickstarter. I'm finding it relatively easy to shift between the distinct feelings of all three projects, luckily & all four if you count The Battle For Bruttelburg! Five if you add that I'm in the research/absorption phase of my Americana Myth project, i've got some big. good, solid ideas for it! Anyhow more details about this soo...

BURN

Every day I think about burning trash for energy & how they’ve figured out how to have only water vapor released from European trash burning facilities, Portland has to prioritize picking up the trash first but…

TRADITION

Father’s Day & my Birthday form a “me” block, so I think about what it means to be me a bunch. I love tradition, I also am an iconoclast & make my own things up - but! I believe in structure & am really tired of the dissolution & chaos in this country, I need people to get it together & stop putting blame on things outside of them (even if that’s the case.)

PARDON MEME

A CLEAN SLATE

We watched Fury Road again last night, got me thinking about Doomerisn more. When I was a kid the romance of the slate being wiped clean & an opportunity to start again was so enticing for me, for so many of us. But, the reality is, the world is complicated & it just gets more so & a clean slate is just an abstraction & delusion of the mind! The apocalypse looks good when it has good art direction!

THE SKY IS NOT FALLING

The tendency around me is for doomerism is to be seen as some kind of foregone conclusion & wise/accepted reality but I really feel like the human experience is just starting, with an enormous amount of uncertainty ahead of us… I stopped accepting end of the world scenarios as motivators a long time ago because I saw through them & they just stopped having any currency for me. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has just increased with this mentality! Hopefully not for long! This piece...

MR. WINTER

Man, the algorithm really didn’t like my $ale announcement! But, here’s an old piece I did of Ian Miller worship - Mr. Winter! You can get 25% 0ff your order from GOBLINKO by joining our facebook groups!

CYBERGOD

I’ve got an emergency to share with you all - I am in a crisis - I’m in a moral quandary about using the face & platform of Zuckerberg to promote my business. We’re all stuck in this social media glue trap. & we know it’s as good for us as smoking & we need something new (or old) cos this shit ain’t working. It’s not just one platform it’s all of them! But still, the message is in the graphic!