You know what I hate?  Things that break, don't work, or otherwise thwart me.  Like this totally expensive overseas DVD of the Cosmos Phantom is doing right now.  Nnnnnngrrrraah.  Okay, I'm better now.

On to the Binkley, which I'm sure can't be anything but fantastical.  I mean, we've had such great luck with modern versions of the story so far, right?  No?  Well, then, there's a first time for everything and my optimism will not be diminished!

Holy Jesus and his tennis racket.  Through visiting relatives, house foreclosures, and getting hit in the skull with a softball going about ten zillion miles per hour, I have come, bearing a review of the totally mediocre Jacobs musical.

And now, I collapse.  More forthcoming in the future.

Aaaand then I fell off the planet.  Birthdays, meetings, you know the drill; everything has come running after me and, as usual, the Project has ended up standing woefully on the corner, staring soulfully up at my window, holding a boombox over its head, desperately attempting to court my love.

While I'm not finished with the Jacobs review yet, I do have a new, sparkly little link over there on the sidebar: The Creators Speak, where feedback and commentary from the authors and composers of lo these many works can be found.  I know - I, too, am somewhat astonished by the fact that they took the time out of their day to not only read my little reviews but also write to me about them, but there you go.  Artists are just cool damn people like that.

I promise to come back with a review before the end of the month.  I make this solemn promise to you, internet audience of probably three people, and to myself.

My goodness, I've made it all the way to the celebrated 2004 film.  It's like I'm making progress, or something!  Review is up, and I'm off to meditate on other new sources and wait for the flames to come rolling in.

The Lofficier review is up, which means if I am giving out one A+ grade per year, 2010 is officially taken.  Sorry, all other things I review this year.

And now it's on to one of the reviews we've all (three) been waiting for: the Schumacher/Butler film.  Wait with bated breath.

The Kuiper review is up!  See, I can deliver on my promises.  Really.  Come back.

On to the next short story!

Still plugging on the next review, which will hopefully be up in the next couple of days.  In the meantime: adventures on Amazon.  Someone remind me to never calculate how much money I have spent on this project to day, because if John finds that figure he will burn down my bookshelves.

Kae D. Jacobs' novel seems to be out in a new edition, with a fancy new Amazon listing.  Is there actually new content, or did she just change the cover?  That sucker is expensive and I already bought the old edition, so this is an important question for me.

Also, what is up with Sabrina Callahan?  She seems to imply that only one of her books is Phantom-based (The Phantom's Song), but the hero's name appears to be Erik in every single one of her other fiction works (or, in the hilarious case of her sci-fi adventure on another planet, "Erikian").  Someone on the internet enlighten me so I don't have to buy all of these, only to find that some are not relevant.  I'm not actually made of money (or barter, or sexual favors, or anything else that would be useful here).  Amazon is CONVINCED that I should buy them to be sure, but then again I feel they might be a little bit biased.