The review for the Argento/Barberini film, she is posted.  As your long-suffering, desperately wimpy project manager, I hope you'll excuse me if I'm a little vague for a while because I can't sleep at night anymore after watching it.

I'm going to read a romance short story now, which will hopefully cleanse my poor brain of all the blood and gore and bits of person everywhere.

In addition, for all one of you that panicked, the Forums are back up and running.  Apparently the host was targeted with a nasty DOS attack, but everything is now restored to its former... ahem... glory.

Ta-daa.  The review for the incredible, the indescribable, the catastrophic Savage/Joboulian film review is up, and my caps-lock key needs a hard-earned rest.

In other news, for the six people whom it affects, Getphpbb, where the Project board is currently hosted, has been down for a few days.  I'm hoping that doesn't mean that they packed up and quit and it'll never see the light of day again, but if that does happen, at least we can interpret that as an act of God concerning my having a messageboard at all.

Hooray hooray hooray!  The Weibang review is up, and I am a little bit smarter about Chinese history.  Good times all around.  Next on board is the Savage/Joboulian film, which hopefully will see a review a little bit faster since I won't need to spend two days in the library before I can write about it.

Got the Savage film in the mail today, after a month of shipping confusion.  Hooray!

In more productive news, I'm done viewing the film and a review is pending, hopefully to be up tomorrow.

I'm going to die if I don't get some sleep, though.

Hooray, the Ebert review is finished and posted!  It's not exactly a monster of a review, but it wasn't exactly a monster of a book.  Regardless, we're moving on.

There may be a new section to the site here soon... I'm not exactly sure.  But I figure, what could it hurt, right?  Right?

I'm very tired.

I'm almost finished with the Ebert, I swear!  Really!

I wanted to take a second and pause, however, to thank the amazing Fallulke-Elskeren, who has been an enormous help in aiding me to get my hands on some of the rarer, older materials for the project.  While F-E doesn't have a website to link to, she has been sharing her impressive knowledge with the world all over the internet anyway; she has informative articles scattered all over on everything from the differing translations of Leroux's novel to Charles Garnier's writings on the opera to research techniques for the student seeking to learn more about this classic of Gothic literature.  As a fellow student, I tip my hat to her and encourage everyone interested in background material on the Phantom story to investigate her tireless research.

In other news, it's my anniversary today (four years... seems like just yesterday I was trying to shut the door in his face), so I may not be as productive as I possibly should be.  But you only get one of these a year!

Holy shit, am I failing to keep up the pace this week.  Between weddings, internet outages and squalling sick kittens, everything's been a real mess around here.  I'm about halfway through the Ebert and hope to have it finished tomorrow, with the review to follow as soon as possible; until then, I'm comforting myself with the knowledge that I've gotten a bunch more materials and the next few should whizz by.