Early Weblinks

To begin with, I met these two guys when I was in school.  Later on, Chris and Scott founded one of the more popular b-movie review sites on the Internet, Stomp Tokyo.  Still later, I moved to Chicago.  Shortly after that, the two Stompies (as my wife occasionally calls them when speaking of their online endeavors) came to visit B-Fest, an annual 24-hour b-movie festival here in Chicago.  Technically, Evanston.  Whatever.  Point is, they didn't even call me, and I didn't find out about it until I read their site the day the festival started.

So out of that guilt, they offered to let me write a couple of articles.  Stomp Tokyo had grown to encompass a number of different sites, with Stomp Tokyo paying for hosting, and the subsidiary sites continuing to do good work on their own.  One of these was a TV review site, and as I watch a fair amount of TV, particularly genre TV, I was allowed to do some reviews for that. 

This was the late, lamented two-part Sam Rami action series.  Part One was Cleopatra 2525, which tried to fit an hour action show into half an hour.  Between plot, characterization, and action, guess what got ditched?  Then there was Jack of All Trades, the Bruce Campbell vehicle set in the 1800s.  Frankly, I thought it went over much better than Cleo, not least because it starred my man Bruce, but which one got dumped later on, and which one got expanded to a full hour?  That's right.

A very well-done comedy, which maybe struck a little too close to home for some, but hey, I liked it.

Yes, I did hop on the ol' Jessica Alba bandwagon back when.  I was young, she was on TV... little did I know stuff would turn out like it did.  Ah, well.  I still stand by the review, though.

The sweeping galactic adventure series which, eventually, fulfilled the expectations established by Earth: Final Conflict, which was also produced by Gene Roddenberry's company.  In other words: Feh.