Category Archives: The Diamond Vault Archive

The posts associated with this archive, were never previously published on a blog. This content may have been intended for a blog [or website], but it either was never published, or it’s website home is no longer online. These posts were not published on [and possibly not even written for] BlogSpot, Baywords, Blog.com or Wordpress…This is the “other” archive…It covers a lot of blogless territory, a lot of old territory, and times of transition.

The Incredible MCU That Time Forgot…


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Date: August 27, 2022

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“As the Marvel Cinematic Universe heads into Phase 4, 5, 6 and beyond, it’s easy to take for granted. The continuous storytelling from The Infinity Saga and the recently dubbed Multiverse Saga across feature films and Disney+ Series might be entrenched in the zeitgeist now, but it’s not the first time a shared universe of Marvel Comics characters showed up on screen. No, the FIRST MCU was in the ’80s. Spinning out of the smash hit The Incredible Hulk, Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno took their small screen superhero act to the next level. This is the Inside Story of the original shared Marvel world, The Incredible MCU That Time Forgot.

The mini-doc features the Hulk himself, Lou Ferrigno, along with Eric Allan Kramer who played Thor, the original Daredevil Rex Smith, Elizabeth Gracen whose spy Jasmin was for all intents and purposes Black Widow, and writer Gerald Di Pego, who scripted two of the three films. The cast and crew talk about the original series, coming back with The Return of the Incredible Hulk, and riding that success through The Trial of The Incredible Hulk before wrapping up the trilogy with The Death of The Incredible Hulk.

While Marvel Studios’ modern Avengers have grown from “I am Iron Man” to the snap in Infinity War, to Endgame and beyond on Disney+, some of the groundwork had been laid over 40 years ago with David Banner and his alter ego the Hulk.”

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Viamund the Boylove Vampyre Says…


Date: September 27, 2017

01) Viamund the Boylove Vampyre Says… [$12.99]

02) E-Book Version [$3.45]

“Viamund the Boy-Love Vampyre Says…. Is a combination of pictures, poetry & haiku’s presented as a meager work in quantity that was years in the making and is meant to be construed as a soft voice where there are none; without the intention to offend but to be heard. To help blur those barriers that surround a misunderstood stigmata. The use of raw, un-tempered, often brutal images of word convey the thoughts of the lonely, socially-isolated individuals who are held primarily in contempt; nonetheless existing on the sexual fringe.. It’s purpose is to convey the state of those who are subject to the machinations of the political clockwork as it relates to the categorization and alienating of all sexual minorities in North America – if indeed the world. – To provide vision to those who appreciate the differences that are humanity.”


Originally from May of 2007…I don’t remember where I posted this…potentially on Amazon.com…

I was incensed at the way this book was being treated in the ratings, comments and reviews section…It was little more than a bunch of A-Holes, showing up to give the book one star, and leave vulgar, abusive comments against the author and his book.

There was quite a bit of “feedback”…but virtually none of it was valid…There was only one or two actual book reviews [what the comment and review section is for]…Everything else was just unrestrained bile.

Irony of ironies…This book of poetry got unjustly black listed by Amazon.com…Yet all these acts of abuse, threat and clear sabotage were allowed to stand, while the book was still listed and available for purchase.

Amazon.com does little to nothing, to combat false, malicious book reviews.

This is just one of the countless double standards, which BoyLovers and Girl-Lovers face in this world.

To the people throwing a fit…

I am curious…

…All this talk of “child pornography”, and going on as though this is absolutely dangerous material, for anyone to read (or even think about?)…

…but, who among you has actually read the book in question?

Who can confirm its’ contents?

Are your reactions here, based upon sound knowledge, or knee jerk hysterics?

In this modern time, the latter is far more common than the former, when this topic comes up.

This type of material, typically gets lied about, and dragged through the mud, politically, simply to satisfy a sense of urgency, caused by social panic.

It pains me to see people attack it, merely because of the topic, and their own preconceived notions about, “what it must be saying”…and what it’s distribution “must be causing”.

Why don’t you actually buy it, read it and know its’ contents, before you judge it?

No More “Age Verification” Free Video Embedding…


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Date: March 23, 2017

I’ve stopped using the embedding code, that sidesteps the YouTube age verification.

Potentially, you’ve noticed that a lot of the embedded videos from YouTube are all giving a playback error?

For years, I’ve used the embedding code that is supposed to let anyone watch a video outright, without worrying about logging into YouTube to verify their age…This was done as a courtesy to my visitors.

As always…YouTube has recently made changes to their website…and from the looks of it, they’ve disabled this method of embedding…whether intentional, or not.

This means for me, that I have already dropped the usage of it…To be honest, it was annoying having to deal with a few things about it, anyway…I’m glad to be done with it.

But, now a ton of embedded videos won’t play on this blog…Fortunately, this is why I’ve always included a direct link to the YouTube video page…So, there should be no real issue…Just click on the link…Watch it on YouTube.

All the best…

– Steve

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Bernie Sanders Lost New York, But We Keep Fighting!…


Date: April 19, 2016

01) Bernie Sanders Lost New York, But We Keep Fighting!


“Today Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in New York by 16 points. This was a huge victory for Hillary and this win makes it very difficult for Bernie Sanders to surpass her pledged delegate lead going forward. With that being said, should we give up? No way. We keep fighting until the very end. We’re progressives. We don’t quit!”

Here’s Why Religious People Dislike Atheists…


Date: May 06, 2015

01) Here’s Why Religious People Dislike Atheists.


“More and more people in the United States are casting aside religion and identifying as atheists — yet polling has found that nearly half of Americans still wouldn’t vote for a presidential candidate who didn’t believe in God. Most Americans think atheists are about as trustworthy as rapists…

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Study: People don’t like atheists because they serve as a grim reminder of death’s finality

“And prejudice towards atheists is by no means unique to the United States. It is an attitude shared across the majority of the world’s countries — both past and present…

…But Cook and his colleagues have proposed another hypothesis: Atheists are disliked because they pose a fundamental threat to the worldview of religious people, a worldview that helps them mitigate “the potential terror arising from the uniquely human awareness of death.

Their study, “What If They’re Right About the Afterlife? Evidence of the Role of Existential Threat on Anti-Atheist Prejudice,” was published online April 27 in the scientific journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.”