Since for some reason we actually draw intelligent people to this site, one of our readers (note posted on the message board) noticed that we had started up in 1997. Sadly, I completely forgot to remember this anniversary–hey, I’m a guy–but we hit the decade mark last month. Our first post back on the Ken’s World of Awful Movies site, the initial version of Jabootu.com, was a review of The Giant Claw, posted on June 8th, 1997. So it’s official, we’ll ten years old.
Far be it for me not to cravenly pimp this occasion. If anyone would like to drop a ten spot into the tip jar, please feel free to do so. I promise to buy bad movies with anything that comes in. I realize a dollar is a year is probably more than my work’s been worth, but then, think of the wonderful articles we’ve posted from Douglas, Jason, Jessica, Eva, Liz Kingsley and Lianna. That stuff’s been pretty good, anyway.
In any case, I promise to try to remember what’s what in 2017 (wow, that sounds far away) when we’re twenty years old. In the meantime, I want to thank not just all our contributors, and Paul and Chris Maygar for doing the tech work that literally made the various versions of the site, but really, all of you guys. The readers have really made the site what it is today, and I sincerely appreciate the fact that each and every one of you has stopped by and in many cases continued to visit us year after year. God bless you.
Update: Thanks to Alexander for the shiny new ten spot. Looks like I might be buying that Women in Peril set from the Camp Classics releases after all. Or maybe a copy of Reflections in a Golden Eye. Valley of the Dolls? So many choices. Of maybe a DVD-R from Subterranean. At Long Last Love? Boom!? Butterfly? Che!? Heironimous Merkin? Lost Horizon? Mandingo? Dammit. So many films.
