Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Three stories and an animated short dropped this week, three more stories are pending for next week.

Never earth-shattering stuff, but I continue to cover the topics nobody else wants to cover. And no hot takes!

What the "fans" really want is a personal essay about my two weeks as RZA's script supervisor...one final piece of quit lit, the last arrow in the quiver

The "fans" are getting a long feature about playing Europa Universalis in a European castle, another long story about synthol with video shared by the Generation Iron team, & a story about the mechanics of transitioning from amateur to pro wrestling featuring Jeff Cobb

Also in the works: something about the "Garrison Keillor style" for @MUGGER1955 , interviews with little kids on the kids' version of American Ninja Warrior, another grip story where I close the Captains of Crush 3/GHP 7, and plenty of variations on my usual big boy tales

I always wonder how many more of these I've got left in me, but even if the stories don't visibly "tip" in any capacity, I'm pleased with the quality of the work I'm doing. It's better than anything I did in grad school, still rigorously put together, but it comes out faster

I'm still pretty low visibility, except to editors, but that's the way to go nowadays. I can't be duking it out online with relatives, friends, and randos