tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:25:23 +0000The essays and personal observations of New York writer/artist J.A. Fludd on topics ranging across popular culture including comics, film, and television, and into the occasional musings on his own life.http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/quantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)Blogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-8024259073642336187Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:23:00 +00002009-10-13T11:28:29.839-07:00Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Rod Serling songs tribute Kick the Can To Serve Man Heard it Through the Grapevine MadonnaWelcome back for the conclusion of our musical tribute to the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone. Here’s another session’s worth of songs based on some of TV’s most memorable half-hours. KICK THE CAN by George Clayton Johnson. In which a resident in a senior citizens’ home intuits an unexpected way to get a second lease on life. Sung to the tune of “Young at Heart”. If the truth should be http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/miQi9UXu68E/twilight-zone-tribute-in-song.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/miQi9UXu68E" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/twilight-zone-tribute-in-song.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-5118126619241112409Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:14:00 +00002009-10-13T11:27:12.014-07:00Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Rod Serling songs tribute Howling Man Eye of the Beholder Billy Joel My Fair LadyIf you don’t know The Twilight Zone...well, my first response is, “And you call yourself a culturally literate American?” My next response is, “There’s no better time to learn the show!” That’s because we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the classic Rod Serling series here at The Quantum Blog, and we’re doing it in song! Continuing our musical montage of Zone episodes, here are more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/HyRH5qKyuGQ/twilight-zone-tribute-in-song-part-2.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/HyRH5qKyuGQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/twilight-zone-tribute-in-song-part-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-7746124224520992303Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:09:00 +00002009-10-13T11:25:36.672-07:00Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Rod Serling songs tribute Walking Distance Monsters are Due on Maple StreetHeavenly shades of night are falling: It’s Twilight time. Or, more to the point, it’s the beginning of our musical tribute to Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. I’ve been preparing for this ever since I realized this is the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Rod Serling’s masterpiece. For the next few posts, we’re going to be singing the stories of The Zone to the tune of a diverse program of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/or00sgQJYQg/twilight-zone-tribute-in-song-part-1_7735.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/or00sgQJYQg" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/twilight-zone-tribute-in-song-part-1_7735.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-6612313422704150306Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:37:00 +00002009-10-06T09:08:41.604-07:00Rod Serling Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Greg Bear Forge of God gay homophobiaI spent this past Friday in one of my favorite places: The Twilight Zone.For the morning and afternoon of October 2, SyFy (the former Sci Fi Channel) ran a day-long marathon of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, one of television’s true acknowledged masterpieces and one of the few TV series that are considered genuine literature. (Don’t believe me? The Twilight Zone is taught in schools in the “http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/Oacb5fLHN8o/say-it-isnt-so-rod.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/Oacb5fLHN8o" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/say-it-isnt-so-rod.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-1210641576109403662Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:11:00 +00002009-10-06T09:07:38.267-07:00science science fiction Carl Sagan Omni magazine Reed Richards Fantastic Four Mr. FantasticBefore I loved comics...before I loved science fiction...before I wanted to be Rod Serling or Stan Lee or Jack Kirby or Gene Roddenberry...the thing I loved first was science itself.I still love science. Other than reading Fantastic Four #62 for the first time (my first experience with the real stuff after watching the Saturday morning cartoon), the nearest thing I’ve ever had to a religious http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/tjBGw2W24ro/my-first-love.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/tjBGw2W24ro" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-first-love.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-8877988791569717835Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:24:00 +00002009-09-29T11:57:24.431-07:00dreams Star Trek Gene Roddenberry Jack KirbyI had a dream the other night. In it, I was sad and afraid and heartsick about something. And I found myself in an office, a strange office that I didn’t recognize. In the office there was a curtain. I pulled back the curtain, and at a desk behind it sat Gene Roddenberry. There he was, the creator of Star Trek himself, his presence all the more remarkable for his having died in 1991. Gene http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/xTt3qW5cXVs/dream-little-dream.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/xTt3qW5cXVs" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/dream-little-dream.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-164904520621829422Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:54:00 +00002009-09-21T10:11:40.696-07:00Why? Because I like you!I couldn't resist that little allusion to The Mickey Mouse Club. As many of you should know, Marvel Comics recently merged with the Walt Disney Company, which makes Reed Richards's laboratory in The Fantastic Four officially a part of the Mouse Factory. The long-term results of the Marvel/Disney merger, once the stockholders have approved it, should be intriguing to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/NjGK6Iw5SBc/see-you-real-soon.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/NjGK6Iw5SBc" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/see-you-real-soon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-2350946229502989476Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:12:00 +00002009-07-28T13:47:46.007-07:00Comics Marvel super-heroes Fantastic Four Silver Surfer John ByrneThe continuation of the Star Trek/Hollywood saga that was scheduled for this post will appear next time. For this post of The Quantum Blog, something else is on my mind, for which, see below... Of late, I think I have mystified and puzzled some of my mates with my decision not to return to buying The Fantastic Four when the new writer/artist team takes over next issue. But I stand by my http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/ZUCRbcWxYN8/fourth-degree-byrne.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)12<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/ZUCRbcWxYN8" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/fourth-degree-byrne.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-5702149507776448223Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:20:00 +00002009-07-22T10:47:20.732-07:00Star Trek Voyager Deep Space Nine Paramount screenwriting Kate Mulgrew Brannon BragaLast week I was starting to tell you what my days were like as a Screenwriting Intern at the TV series Star Trek Voyager. One thing you may be enlightened to know is that in writing and producing for television, as in many other occupations, one spends a great deal of time in meetings. Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. The difference is that in television, there’s a fairly decent chance http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/6N8YmXB6Ti4/la-trek-part-3.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/6N8YmXB6Ti4" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-trek-part-3.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-7960035074165810237Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:05:00 +00002009-07-14T16:19:25.970-07:00Star Trek Voyager Deep Space Nine Paramount screenwriting Hollywood Sunset Boulevard Wings FrasierWhen we left off in our Star Trek saga, I had just driven my gold Chrysler Sebring Convertible with the black ragtop through the front gates of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, there to enter the world of network television for the first time. And now we begin the tale of what awaited me there. That experience of driving through the front gates of Paramount like Norma Desmond with Max in Sunsethttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/1GZ7Z_f4CTE/la-trek-part-2.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/1GZ7Z_f4CTE" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-trek-part-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-3882817397267778323Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:26:00 +00002009-07-14T15:48:21.509-07:00classic movies science fiction horror monsters The Blob 5oth Anniversary Steve McQueenEvery year at this time in Pennsylvania there is a festival celebrating one of the formative motion pictures of my childhood. For this post of The Quantum Blog, we're going to look back at that movie with an essay that I wrote for its 50th anniversary on September 12, 2008.Fifty years ago tonight (September 12, 2008) on movie screens across the country, a meteor fell in the forest outside a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/Sbx9nIhsvrg/beware-of-this-blog.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/Sbx9nIhsvrg" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/beware-of-this-blog.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-6219450173866620410Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:26:00 +00002009-06-19T13:06:29.314-07:00tornadoes nature weather super-heroes awesomeI really should remember, or get into the habit of making a note of, where I hear things. I'm pretty sure it must have been on The Weather Channel that I learned the word lilapsophilia, which happens to define a condition I've had since I used to use the public and school libraries as a boy. Lilapsophilia is the love of...tornadoes. The picture below is one that I was actually considering as ahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/P7MHQsHwzl4/lilapsophilia.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/P7MHQsHwzl4" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lilapsophilia.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-6740604493897783277Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:54:00 +00002009-06-17T08:14:43.068-07:00comics art artists George Perez Marvel DC Fantastic Four Avengers JLA X-Men Wonder Woman Green Lantern Silver SurferWe’ll return to our scheduled saga of my time with Star Trek in Hollywood in a couple of posts. For now, there are a couple of other things I want to talk about. One of them is the man I consider the single greatest living artist in comic books: The one and only George Perez! Here’s the wrap-around cover of the portfolio book Perez: Accent on the First E, which I ordered through the mail in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/ZW_0oRfyXaY/pace-is-set.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/ZW_0oRfyXaY" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/06/pace-is-set.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-2778359422896881777Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +00002009-06-09T12:19:15.214-07:00Star Trek Voyager Deep Space Nine Paramount screenwriting Hollywood Sunset Boulevard Beverly HillsWe left off last time with me making a mad dash upstairs to receive a phone call that was coming in on the answering machine. The young woman calling from California was one Lisa Klink, the Story Editor of the TV series Star Trek Voyager. I had read about her in the Star Trek Communicator magazine in which I had learned of the Writers Guild Internship program that could get you invited inside ahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/tkSgUFRdj-g/la-trek.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/tkSgUFRdj-g" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/06/la-trek.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-9089939281651212213Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:00 +00002009-05-29T11:17:49.267-07:00If you noticed an inconsistency in type fonts and sizes at the end of the last post, I apologize.  For some reason Blogger wouldn't give me consistent type in the last paragraphs, and after more times trying to correct it than I cared to count, I finally just settled on what's there now.  I'm going to try to get this right in further posts.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/OHxxHuofekU/damn-fonts.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/OHxxHuofekU" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/damn-fonts.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-4626394496148455735Fri, 29 May 2009 17:17:00 +00002009-06-01T09:17:32.413-07:00TV television Hollywood writing screenwriting science fiction Outer Limits Zanti Misfits Sandkings Star Trek Deep Space Nine VoyagerThe most interesting and unique chapter of my life started when a TV network fulfilled one of the great dreams of my boyhood. In 1994, Showtime cable announced its revival of the series The Outer Limits.The Outer Limits is TV’s purest expression of science fiction. It didn’t exist to tell the stories of a particular world or a specific cast of characters. It was a show that you watched for thehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/It-jLGKvZAY/from-inner-mind-to-final-frontier.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/It-jLGKvZAY" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/from-inner-mind-to-final-frontier.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-2644656434209966231Mon, 11 May 2009 19:42:00 +00002009-05-14T11:43:35.980-07:00Films movies science fiction Star Trek J.J. Abrams Gene Roddenberry Kirk Spock Enterprise Vulcan Uhura Scotty Sulu Chekov RomulansThe title of this post was originally going to be “But Is It Star Trek?” This is because I approached the new Star Trek film that opened this weekend with a healthy skepticism. I had read the initial reports that director J.J. Abrams (the creator of Felicity, Alias, and Lost) was planning to make a film not for Trekkers but for the general movie-going audience. When I saw the trailers and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/kdTg3Z_YUc8/star-trek-reborn.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/kdTg3Z_YUc8" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/star-trek-reborn.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-6781378182658694766Mon, 04 May 2009 19:24:00 +00002009-05-04T15:02:34.489-07:00comics Fantastic Four films movies fans Stan Lee Jack Kirby classicsThere can be no greater irony than the fact that when some people think of the Fantastic Four, they think of me.It’s ironic because I’ve never been anywhere near the book professionally, except for the long-winded and verbose lead article (yes, even then, all those years ago) that I wrote for the magazine The Fantastic Four Chronicles published by FantaCo Enterprises. (My friend Roger has http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/of4qzgVJix4/utterly-fantastic.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/of4qzgVJix4" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/utterly-fantastic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-4754014689088331402Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:00 +00002009-04-24T10:29:55.055-07:00Comics Jack Kirby Thor Galactus Eternals Neil Gaiman John Romita Jr.When we left off last week, we were talking about the work of the King of Comics, Jack Kirby, with a particular focus on one of his greatest creations, Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, and the ways he has been depicted, correctly and otherwise. To start off this post, I was going to talk about some of the things that have been done with another of Jack’s iconic creations, the uniform of the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/zwTpiGeubkY/eternal-jack-kirby.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/zwTpiGeubkY" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/eternal-jack-kirby.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-3423909149246436189Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:59:00 +00002009-04-14T13:16:25.259-07:00Jack Kirby Stan Lee Marvel comics comic books comic art Fantastic Four Galactus Silver SurferDid you ever see the recent film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer? There is a reason I bring this up. That is, there’s a reason besides the fact that I think the film suffered from a problem that afflicts a lot of comic-book movies: it tried to take on too much story in the too brief time allotted to it. (And really, it should have been about half an hour longer than it was.) I http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/7KnyroCvbt0/king-still-rules.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/7KnyroCvbt0" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/king-still-rules.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-4245515740681359348Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:07:00 +00002009-04-07T11:01:48.970-07:00Mel Brooks History of the World Ten Commandments Moses Get Smart Producers Young FrankensteinIt’s always at this time of year, with Passover (which is what Bob Hope used to say Oscar time was at his house), Good Friday, and Easter, I find myself thinking of Mel Brooks.Yes, Mel Brooks. I’ve always loved his work. Even before I knew who he was, I loved Get Smart starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. What an inventive, funny show! Did you know that before Robin Hood: Men in Tights, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/P9U1tTMjRhw/other-five-commandments_3667.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/P9U1tTMjRhw" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/other-five-commandments_3667.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-1869790149797843655Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:26:00 +00002009-04-03T13:46:31.697-07:00Not long ago, the world of comics lost one of its very best and most inventive artists: the man who designed the “new” X-Men, Dave Cockrum. When the original class of X-Men disbanded in 1975, to be replaced with an all-new, international team, the artist on board was Cockrum, who created one of the most beautifully designed groups of heroes ever seen in comic books. For the X-Men, Cockrum http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/TzekLInjJKM/these-boots-were-made-for-battle.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/TzekLInjJKM" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/these-boots-were-made-for-battle.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-6479169705891523323Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:54:00 +00002009-04-06T12:38:19.120-07:00television TV classic series horror occult Rod Serling Night Gallery Twilight ZoneGreetings to all aficionados of art and oddness, all devotees of the demonic. I’m deliberately channeling the spirit of the great Rod Serling to welcome you to what will prove to be the most artistic entry--in the most disturbing way--of this, The Quantum Blog. And for this I must gratefully acknowledge a lad named Danny B. in Corinth, NY, for a particular photograph, and the curator of the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/oJYD1ZQy05c/tour-of-gallery.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/oJYD1ZQy05c" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/tour-of-gallery.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-6240256532917449399Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:01:00 +00002009-03-24T12:10:10.710-07:00television TV classic series horror occult Rod Serling Night Gallery Twilight ZoneBetween last Christmas and now (time considerations being what they are), I spent some of my dinner hours in the same way that I spent a couple of summers when I was in school: Catching up on (or revisiting, in this case) Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.Night Gallery was the series that the creator of The Twilight Zone did on NBC at what would be the twilight of his illustrious career. I remember http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/HRlN1ryzk5Q/enter-gallery-if-you-dare.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/HRlN1ryzk5Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/enter-gallery-if-you-dare.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869524774277263596.post-7298932217694617390Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:05:00 +00002009-03-23T12:21:34.661-07:00television TV cancellation Kyle XY Pushing Daisies Dirty Sexy Money Eli StoneWell, a couple of nights ago I watched the farewell episode of Kyle XY, an outstanding series whose fate I bemoaned last week. I don’t know if you saw it, but the ending of the episode leaves me gasping to see executive producer Julie Plec’s idea for a direct-to-DVD movie get the green light! The way ABC Family sent Kyle to the Nielsen gallows at its most startling turning point now ranks with http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~3/aHT07n9vMFs/already-been-cancelled.htmlquantummaleart@gmail.com (J.A. Fludd)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheQuantumBlog/~4/aHT07n9vMFs" height="1" width="1"/>http://the-quantum-blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/already-been-cancelled.html