Another year, another pile of books.  The first of the trio of Hernandez reviews is up, and the year is looking more positive already.

Happy four years old, Phantom Project!  I have so many more grey hairs now than I did when I started.

And now, the Phantom Project presents a very special holiday review, finished just for you, the excitable readers.

Bah, humbug, indeed.

The Lehman/Calvi review is up, and I am like a rolling stone, gathering no moss.  Except for the part about having a loathsome cold, but I'm hoping that'll go away.  Soon.  Please?

You guys are in for a very special holiday treat soon.  Stay tuned.

The holidays are a bad time for reviews.  I'm all, "Hey, guys, I need to go into another room and get angry at someone I don't know for an hour or two," and they're like, "Fuck that, drink this eggnog."  So you can see how it's hard to get anything done.

Nevertheless, here's the first Newman review online at last, and I hold out hope that I can churn out another one or two before the end of the month.  I'm a dynamo.

Today, for one reason or another, I was thinking about all the Phantom-inspired video games I'm going to eventually be getting to play, and then I thought, "Hey, I wonder if there are any non-cyber versions of those floating around."  So I consulted the expert on these matters (Google), and holy shit, you guys, there actually really is a Phantom of the Opera board game.

I have no idea how in the nine Buddhist hells I'm going to find a copy, but the hunt is on, ladies and gentlemen.

The Brumpton review is up!  Everybody join me in thanking the lovely forever77, who sent me the book free of charge out of the goodness of her heart. I'm constantly amazed when people help me out with rare materials - thank you, thank you!

After heavy reflection (believe you me, I used my brainthinks on this one), I've decided to split the book reviews and short story reviews into two separate pages.  I hate to part the written word like that (such sweet sorrow), but there were getting to be enough shorts that they needed their own category.

Someday, maybe even the games and radio shows will get their own pages.  Shoot for the stars, that's what I always say.