14 Apr 24
A minor housekeeping note, but I've decided to delete the site's Gab account. The place had always been a bit of a cesspit, but that's social media for you. Will I replace it with anything else? At this point, I doubt it. If I was that committed to social media engagement, I would've stuck with Twitter and Facebook, but as I ditched them as a matter of principle, it wasn't all that tenable for me to stick with Gab as long as I have. Well, so it goes. Not much is lost. The Cats Group was nice. Anyway, that takes care of that. Now back to work for me.
Posted by: James
UTC 14:02:20
My original viewing goal for this week proved too ambitious for the time I had available, so I opted to take an alternate route that I could put together quicker. We're looking at The Dangers in My Heart, last year's Season 1, the recently completed Season 2 and the ONA short Bonus Dangers (TwiYaba). For movie reviews, we kick things off with a big ensemble war film A Bridge Too Far and then a movie made when WWII was still ongoing, 1942's A Date with the Falcon. Next is crime time with kidnapping in A Cry in the Night and murder in A Bucket of Blood, and singing in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I'll pick up a few more Winter 2024 series for next week, so look forward to that. We'll also have more RttW. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 12:17:10
13 Apr 24
It's time for Chapter 23 of EM3. It's not all that long, but we're getting set up for the final stretch of the story. You excited? Speaking of things to be excited for, my plan for the reviews this week has changed. I didn't have time for the catching up that needed to be done, so we've got something light and fluffy instead. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 13:16:24
08 Apr 24
We kick off with three of my favorite series that ran from Fall 2023 to Winter 2024. It's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Shangri-La Frontier and The Apothecary Diaries. Outstanding. I know book reviews are much less common for me, but because I'm such a fan of The Eminence in Shadow, I've got Volume 1 of the light novels. The books are pretty chunky as light novels go, but I'm moving along at a fair clip with them. Last but not least, we have our bonus movie reviews, 1932's A Bill of Divorcement and A Blueprint for Murder. I think I'll pick up some more two-cour series for next week's reviews. Look for more EM3 if I manage to get it done. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 14:13:32
07 Apr 24
A day late and a dollar short as usual, but here's Chapter 19 of TWH. I'll try to get the reviews out tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 12:47:09
01 Apr 24
I've been holding off on trying to get new content out while I've been busy restoring all the old stuff, but at this point, I think I'm going to try running the two pipelines in parallel. One of the main reasons for this is that I've finally gotten to see Dune: Part Two. Now, what I'm thinking about doing with update posts for the immediate future is to provide a couple additional movie reviews from my backlog so I can get them out of the hopper. I do like grouping reviews by theme, and we'll still do things that way for the main part of the post, but these extras will just be me going down the alphabet. For today, at least, we've got two to round out the usual five plus the two bonus ones. First is the 1954 version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which I can connect to 5 Fingers via James Mason. Then there's 100 Degrees Below Zero and 8 Million Ways to Die, which I suppose can be connected because both films have a lead actor named Jeff. (That's more connection than I'll be able to have for most of these bonus additions.) Moving on to our manga coverage, we have Volume 6 of Oshi no Ko and Volume 28 of One Punch Man. I plan to start my coverage of the Winter 2024 anime next week and dip into more of the backlog from last year. I'll try to get the new chapter of TWH out as well. I don't have that much more to write on it, so I'll just have to make time for it amid my continued efforts to repost reviews. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 06:34:31
18 Mar 24
I've refrained from doing a blow-by-blow of my reconstruction efforts here on the main page, but if you've been following the blog, you know how things have been going. I'm happy to announce that I've reconstructed everything in the Stories section. I still need to fight with Drupal to get the CSS working the way I want it to and I have to double-check to ensure all the links are working correctly, but the biggest part of the work on the most important section of the site is done. Not only that, but we're going to celebrate with a quartet of new teasers. First is a new addition to the Earth Arc's Arthurian Cycle, The Seeds of Avalon - Volume IV: The Legacy of Arthur. Next is a whole new Earth Arc series, the Japanese school comedy BaraBara Gakkou! with its entries Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3. The concept is almost as old as the site itself, but I've just now decided to formally add it to the pipeline.
Now I've got the long road ahead of me putting all the reviews back up, to say nothing of all the stuff under the hood I have to sort out. If you want to keep track of my progress, I'll continue to be updating the blog daily. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 08:15:17
02 Mar 24
After nearly giving myself an aneurysm, I might just be getting close to kicking things off here. It's going to take a lot of fighting to bend this into the shape I want and a lot of time to reconstruct the files, as a simple import isn't going to work. Hopefully, though, all this work will pay dividends with a slightly longer lease on life that what we were looking at before. I imagine I'll be crying tears of blood before it's over, but my pain might just be your gain. Stay tuned.
Posted by: James
UTC 13:21:06