Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.
Hey, Mom! The Explanation.
Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.
Kid A Mnesia Exhibition was conceived as a physical installation artwork, but this was canceled by logistical problems and the COVID-19 pandemic. It was announced alongside the compilation album Kid A Mnesia and released 18 November 2021 as a free download. It received positive reviews, with critics praising its intersection of music, art and technology.
Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is an exploration game based on the music and artwork of the Radiohead albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001). Players move through an abstract virtual museum, examining artwork and listening to music and sounds from the albums.[1] They cannot die, and there are no enemies, no score system, and no levels to complete.[1][2]
The New Yorker described the museum as "a brutalist cathedral full of byzantine corridors, majestic rooms, banks of buzzing cathode-ray-tube televisions, and carpets of fluttering sketchbook pages".[2] The large central pyramid features the songs "How to Disappear Completely", "Pyramid Song" and "You and Whose Army".[3] The Paper Chamber features dozens of pages taken from sketchbooks and lyric sheets, and the Televisions room has stacks of televisions playing short videos.[3]
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2403.18 - 10:10
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3316 - New X-Men Comics - 2024 - Comic Book Sunday for 2403.17
One more day of final grading.
So this share because I have many Comic Book Sunday posts that are not done.
A few thoughts. I really liked the Krakoa storyline. But I must admit that my interest in X-Men has waned severely. The last three issues of the main title are in the back log. Maybe this new set of books will rekindle my interest.
Thanks for tuning in.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading. https://www.comicsbeat.com/x-men-comics-line-new-beginning-2024/
X-ceptional creative teams usher in a new beginning for X-Men comics line
Seems like yesterday when the Krakoan Age of the X-Men comics launched. But all things must come to an end. Fans have been wondering about the new direction for the X-Men comics for a long while now. We already knew editor Tom Brevoortwould be making the jump to the X line after over two decades on the Avengers, as well as Gail Simone would be involved. Earlier today at ‘Future of Marvel Comics’ X-Men and Digital Comics’ panel at South by Southwest (SXSW), Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and VP, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort were joined by Simone as well as writer Jed MacKay to announce what’s coming next for Marvel’s line of X-Men comics.
This new era of the X-Men comics line will be centered around three flagship titles.
First up is adjectiveless X-Men by writer Jed MacKay and artist Ryan Stegman arriving July 10th.
From their new base in Alaska, the X-Men raise a flag of defiance! Join CYCLOPS, BEAST, MAGNETO, PSYLOCKE, KID OMEGA, TEMPER (formerly OYA), MAGIK and JUGGERNAUT as they assemble against new forces, battling for the destiny and philosophy of the mutant species. Mutant business is their business.
“It’s not just those three titles in this relaunch, there’s a lot!” MacKay shared at the panel. “[My X-Men title] is where we’ll see the first inklings of what the X-Men will look like in 2024. I’m very excited for you guys to see it when it comes out. If you look at that line-up, they’re a group of people who are not well suited to integrating into the world. And in these books, we’ll see what that means and what it looks like going forward.”
The following up will be Uncanny X-Men written by Gail Simone Simone with artist David Marquez arriving on August 7th.
Making themselves at home in the Big Easy, the X-Men protect a world that hates and fears them! Join ROGUE, GAMBIT, NIGHTCRAWLER, JUBILEE and WOLVERINE on explosive super hero adventures. Uncanny as ever, the X-Men are back to saving the day mutant-style!
“I think X-Fans are special in that we identify with having something different about us…and you’re going to feel that in this book, and what it means to have that thing about you that’s different, or exceptional. We go deep into the emotional part of that,” Simone told the crowd.
“David Marquez is the perfect artist for this book,” she continued. “He does amazing action, amazing character work, and he’s really excited about getting into the characters appearing in this book. I knew from the very first panel that this book was going to be super exciting and gorgeous. He just knows how to knock it out of the park!”
Finally expect Exceptional X-Men from writer Eve L. Ewing and artist Carmen Carnero on September 4th.
MUTANTKIND’S TWO GREATEST TEACHERS MOLD THE NEXT GENERATION OF X-MEN!
KATE PRYDE has returned home to Chicago following the war with ORCHIS. Having stepped away from the world of mutantdom, she is nevertheless called back into action as she crosses paths with a trio of new young mutants, BRONZE, AXO and MELEE, who clearly need training and guidance. Unfortunately for Kate, EMMA FROST thinks so as well!
“Long-time fans of Kitty Pryde can count on the kinds of adventures you expect from her as a classic favorite, while I hope new and old readers alike will get to love this all-new team of young mutants,” Ewing shared. “Kitty, the one-time kid sister figure of the X-Men, has to reckon with her own memories—good and bad—of being a child of Xavier as she navigates a role as leader and mentor for a new generation of mutants who are trying to make their way in a time of crisis. I always try to strike a chord between appealing to veteran comics fans and new readers, but since so many people fell in love with the X-Men as teens and this book is about a team of young folks, that feels especially important to me here. I hope that for some 13- or 14-year-old readers, this might be the first comic book they pick up. Working on this series has been a ton of fun already, as Carmen Carnero’s art is bringing so much dynamism to these pages and the entire X-team of writers is in a flurry sharing scripts and feedback and ideas.”
Marvel Comics VP Executive Editor Tom Brevoort explained the new approach and what fans can expect:
“The X-Men are fractured in the aftermath of the end of Krakoa, scattered across the globe without a central base of operation. What that means in practice is that all three titles carrying the name X-MEN are core X-MEN series—they all center around one of the major aspects of what the team has been about at different points. This is very much by design. We want to field a wide assortment of X-titles with different styles and tones and approaches, an X-MEN book for virtually any taste.”
In addition, Marvel released trailer featuring never-before-seen artwork that teases new villains and the mystery of Inmate X.
Besides the X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES promotional image by Ryan Stegman and Marte Gracia at the top of the article, Marvel also teased titles to come. It won’t come as a surprise that a Wolverine or X-Force title will be announced. But I’m sure fans will be most excited to see some of the other upcoming books teased including X-Factor, Storm, Phoenix, and the return of NYX.
And don’t forget to take your first steps into the new era on May 4 with a special prelude tale by Gail Simone in FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2024: BLOOD HUNT/X-MEN #1 AND in June’s X-MEN #35, the 700th issue of Uncanny X-Men, which will feature stories by both Simone and MacKay.
Between this and the X-Men ’97 cartoon, there’s never been a better time to be an X-Men fan!
Krakoa is gone...but the X-Men remain, always. This summer, from the ashes -- a new beginning.
Following the Krakoan Age, Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-MEN, Gail Simone and David Marquez’s UNCANNY X-MEN, and Eve L. Ewing and Carmen Carnero’s EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN will be the core ongoing series in an all-new era of mutant storytelling.
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2403.17 - 10:10
- Days ago = 3180 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3315 - Baseball is Proving the Power of Immigrants
Another Baseball post as I gear up for the start of the season. Expect more.
In the thick of the final grading, so just this share.
Thanks for tuning in.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/21/baseball-immigrants-diversity/
Opinion
Baseball is
proving the power of immigrants. America should take the hint.
By Jaswinder
Bolina
February 21, 2024 at 5:45
a.m. EST
Jaswinder Bolina is a poet and essayist. His latest book is “English as a Second Language and Other Poems.”
As a former president of the United States excoriates immigrants for “poisoning the blood” of our country, as the governors of Texas and my current home state of Florida bus and fly migrants to points north — including my hometown, Chicago — my thoughts turn to baseball.
All through the game’s winter offseason, major league teams have been courting and signing free agents. I had hoped my beloved Cubs might woo one of those unsigned players to the North Side, one who happens to be among the most exorbitantly talented migrant workers in American history.
Sadly for me and other teams’ devotees in thriving sanctuary cities from Boston to San Francisco, Shohei Ohtani signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers to play for that ballclub’s diverse and dedicated fans through the next three presidential elections.
I had hoped, too, that the Cubs might work out a trade for Juan Soto, another imported wunderkind. But he’ll be playing for legions of his fellow Dominicans, who make up one small portion of the New York Yankees’ cosmopolitan fan base.
The Cubs also didn’t land Jung Hoo Lee, Yariel Rodriguez or Yoshinobu Yamamoto. But I’m ecstatic they did sign Nippon Professional Baseball ace Shōta Imanaga to a multiyear contract that will see him pitching at Wrigley Field this summer and beyond.
While that inhospitable bunch has been villainizing migrants and refugees as a strain on U.S. resources, I have been marveling at how much foreign-born players have enlivened (and enriched) baseball in recent decades. Far from being poisoned, the sport has been rejuvenated by infusions of immigrants from Ohtani to Soto to Ronald Acuña Jr., Yordan Álvarez, Ha-Seong Kim, the Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki and so many others.
The Republican presidential front-runner might argue that undocumented migrants and refugees aren’t elite athletes and are instead “animals” arriving from “s---hole countries.” But such dehumanizing insults are not only guilty of offensive fixation on national origin, ethnicity and race. They also mistake a person’s predicament for a person’s potential.
This is made plain by the origin stories of some of baseball’s biggest stars. Those same players who fashioned makeshift mitts out of milk cartons and cardboard, who rose to the game’s highest levels through arduous, harrowing and near-tragic journeys, might have languished on the other side of a barbed and militarized wall if this country’s right wing had its way.
The politicians who would build those walls, who attack immigrants for supposedly burdening our national resources, need only consider baseball’s explosive growth into a $10 billion industry and the financial value of Ohtani alone to the Dodgers — some estimate the team could make more than $1 billion off his deal over the course of a decade — to see that industries and economies thrive by inclusion, not exclusion.
A global fan base is a growing fan base. This is a lesson that Major League Baseball — which has scheduled games in the Dominican Republic, South Korea, Mexico and England this year — has learned. It is something the National Basketball Association and the National Football League have learned. Which is why all these leagues are aggressively expanding their efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion: Commissioners and team owners know that those three words, too often demonized and weaponized, offer one of the greatest economic opportunities in U.S. history.
Even so, ideologues seek to end inclusive practices in private industry and public education. They guarantee endless winning and new revolutions by promising to slash resources and wall off our country — all while whiffing on the most rudimentary of winning principles understood by most every baseball fan in America:
As the Republican presidential primary churns toward that party’s national convention, coinciding this July with baseball’s annual All-Star Game, all of this will be evident to anyone ready to take a break from the campaign, take a seat in the bleachers and take in the world’s greatest ballplayers thriving at America’s game.
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2403.16 - 10:10
- Days ago = 3179 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.