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Where I’m At...

Things are shitty. After ten months without work, I’m back at work, finally, but at less pay, with no benefits yet, and with only 32 hours a week, it’s nowhere near making a dent in debts that piled up. The adoption subsidy we had been receiving was cut by $1,100 last month, so that didn’t help either. Actually, not at all. Meanwhile, the Princess is off with birth family now, having decided that the rules that I have to protect her aren’t worth putting up with, so, now that she’s 18, she has run off to be with the family that raped and beat her, which is everything that I feared would happen. Even my therapist hasn’t been available like she used to be, and it’s going to be a fight with my work schedule to see her.

Months of life beating me down has me in a $3K hole that I need last week or I’m looking at eviction at the end of the month. I’ve been in such a rut emotionally and mentally that doing much more than I have been doing by working as been torture, but I have to go asking now, hat in hand, for anyone that can help. Now working, and without supporting that waste of flesh that was the albatross known as a spouse, I can actually pay stuff off. That is, if I haven’t already pissed everyone off by holding hat in hand for the last year+... PayPal is https://www.paypal.me/markhaverty. If one person gets me there or 1,001, all will be paid back, with 10%, within 3-4 months. Consider this post a promissory note of sorts, and anything you can do something I am eternally grateful for. 

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It’s Been a While...

It’s been quite a while since I used Tumblr, or did any writing period. I have plans on the latter, as Edited4Content.com will be launching this summer. On the sports front, I’ll be writing a daily baseball column, a weekly minor league spotlight, and the return, after a decade, of my fantasy baseball column, Treasure Hunting. 

Many of you know me though from comic book coverage in Wizard magazine, amongst other places, and that will be here too, with regular reviews and interviews, and hopefully previews as I get things rolling again with the publishers. I already have one big interview lined up with a personal favorite of mine, a huge name in the 90s that’s doing great work for a totally different company now, and I will be talking to him about the various stages of his career over the past three decades, with spotlights on three projects I love, each for different reasons. Other writer and artist interviews will be popping up too, and I plan on having the comics coverage, along with the sports coverage, rolling by July 1.

Also, there will be other facets of me popping up that never really had an outlet before. Don’t worry - there will be tags so that you don’t have to read them if you don’t want to. Still, I was a political science major at UVM, and politics is definitely something on my mind. Also, between having also studied psychology, and mental health issues hitting close to home, in multiple ways, those might come out too.

The joke of the name Edited4Content is that I frequently have been, and this is the one place I won’t be. I know I have had fits and starts with the opening, but I’m excited, I’m working on projects for it now, and I hope you will check it out.

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Future Tense: Arizona Fall League Updates

This seems like a good time to check in on some of the names we spotlighted weeks ago, to see who’s been able to live up to their potential and if any have been busts. We’ll start things off with a Rays’ first baseman that we were really high on to open the Arizona Fall League season.

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Jake Bauers photo courtesy Buck Davidson with Creative Commons license.

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The Spinner Rack: Secret Wars 7

By Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, and Ive Svorcina

With rare exception, such as David Michelinie's brilliant Emperor Doom, I have never been a huge fan of Doctor Doom, as far too often, he is a generic Central European despot that's rarely shown that he's worthy of the grandiose manner that other characters talk about him.

That certainly changed for me during Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four, and Secret Wars builds on all of the groundwork Hickman first laid there, six years ago now.

Doom isn't a villain. He simply feels that he knows what is best for the world, and he will do everything possible to ensure that things turn out that way. In Secret Wars, he isn't the villain; he's a tragic hero. Doctor Strange did not want the power and responsibility with being the new universe's god, and he deferred to Doom. While Doom certainly has used this authority to his benefit, at the same time one has to acknowledge that everything, good and bad, that exists in the Marvel Universe in Secret Wars is because he wills it to be.

That brings us to this week's #7, where everyone is on the offensive against Doom. Sinister and his version of Carol Danvers betray Doom. The Thors - at least those that deem themselves worthy - have turned against Doom. Maestro has turned against Doom, and has a Hulk army literally dropping out of the sky onto Doom's forces.

Oh, and the Black Panther, King of the Dead, has just unleashed all of the zombies, with a Siege Courageous (a less chaotic version of the Siege Perilous) at his disposal, to restore these zombies to their former selves, allied to him.

It almost makes you feel bad for Doom. For once, it really was him single-handedly holding the universe together, and all that did was give the universe time to turn against him.

Hickman is definitely going out with a bang with this series, and I can honestly say I have no idea how this is going to end. So many major events, from both of the Big Two, have felt like predictable disappointments, and this has mercifully been not even close to how I feel about Secret Wars.

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Figuring Out This Tumblr Thing...

So far, my posting here has been some reposts of my baseball articles at Rotoballer and one comment on the awesomeness that is the international trailer for Star Wars: the Force Awakens.

That's going to change.

My hope here was to look at multiple areas of interest in various ways, so it's time to hit on some comics.

Also, from time to time, the trials and tribulations of being a parent of a child with special needs will probably creep in here. That's her - Nicolette - in the photo above.

So, coming up, reviews of this week's comics, hopefully starting tonight.

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Future Tense: Arizona Fall League Surprises (November 7th Edition)

We’ve looked at some successes and some not-so-successful (we want to be positive here, so no negative thoughts coming from Future Tense today…) over the last two installments. This time around, we are going to look at some truly surprising performances, starting with a Brewer shortstop that has gone from mediocrity in the PCL to superstar in the AFL.

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Mac Williamson photo courtesy Dave R with Creative Commons license.

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Wow.

Everything about this trailer is amazing. The Hoth scenes had me the most excited, but everything about this screams awesome.

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Fall Foliage 2015

These photos are from the South Burlington Nature Trail, the path next to the daycare formerly known as Dinosaur Daycare off Williston Road and heading back towards White Street.

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Future Tense: Who's Struggling In The Arizona Fall League (November 3rd Edition)

Last time around, we looked at some of the hottest players in the Arizona Fall League. This time around, it’s time to look at who isn’t.

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Photo courtesy Paul Hadsal with Creative Commons license.

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An Introduction of Sorts...

So...

Now I have a Tumblr page. Yippee?

As for what will be here, probably a little bit of everything that I have written about elsewhere, such as sports, pop culture (especially comics), and politics. So, just like Vox, with less writers, a less-cool design, and on a free Tumblr. Otherwise, it’s completely the same...