Gephyrophillia Archives | Compiled by Jeff Harris

Page One. Watch This Space. Ask TXB. Not An Update. Gephyrophillia. Although I've been writing on the site since 1998, it was in 2002 that I actually began to archive my front page articles. The regular opinion section of The X Bridge was called Watch This Space for a good six years. Previously, the section was called Page One because it was technically the first page of The X Bridge, then known as CNX. But when I changed the format a bit adopting a magazine format, I renamed it Watch This Space. I changed it to Not An Update and had an Ask TXB section. In 2008, while creating another magazine format, I had a section called Gephyrophillia (literally love of crossing bridges). Like the name so much that it became the universal brand for the regularly-scheduled opinion pieces. Thoughtnami is another, more broader brand, but, that's for another page.

Here's an archive of all the articles written in that first page of The X Bridge from the Page One era to the Watch This Space years to the current Gephyrophillia. Newest articles near the top.

Gephyrophilia

06/01/11 - Thoughts/Questions About The New DC
06/01/11 - The Brave New DC World
05/19/11 - What Should I Do This Summer? 05/06/11 - Reaching Dysfunctional, Anti-Social Boys
05/01/11 - Pixar's Comfort Zone Versus Marvel
04/29/11 - Will Jem's Return Lead To Jem's Return?
04/14/11 - Shedding The Otaku Label
04/08/11 - Parents Who Watch Have Children Who Watch
04/02/11 - Games Are For Kids
04/01/11 - What If Cartoon Network WAS Run Like Nick?
03/29/11 - Biting The Card-Holding Hand
03/26/11 - Know Your Audience
03/25/11 - Surviving In A New Medium World
03/25/11 - Not Spitting Out Facts
03/24/11 - Pieces of Plastic, Paper, and Pixels
03/23/11 - Candidate For The CW Head
03/23/11 - Life on Planet Techwood
03/23/11 - Apparently I'm Wrong About A Lot
01/01/11 - I Don't Speak Binary Much
12/11/10 - I Hated 2010 (Here's Why)
03/23/11 - HOG-Wash
07/27/10 - Nicktoons Continues to Be Ruthlessly Toonless
03/30/10 - Life in a Corpse
03/29/10 - The Subject of Mortality
03/27/10 - Shedding Old Identities and Clique Labels
03/24/10 - Animation Too Beneath TeenNick?
12/01/09 - Another Day, Another Story
11/30/09 - The Great Time Warner Shopping Spree To Come?
11/30/09 - Let Me Tell You A Story
11/04/09 - Superman and The Class of '21
11/04/09 - The Rift May Be Healing
11/03/09 - Two Point Oh?
11/01/09 - Chest-Thumping in Flower Mound
10/28/09 - I Remember Anime
10/27/09 - Nickelodeon's Great Turtle Takeover
10/26/09 - Farewell GeoCities
10/26/09 - Class is Out of Session
09/09/09 - A Word About Toonami, The Forum, and The Site
09/09/09 - Class Is In Session . . . at Qubo?
09/01/09 - The Morning After
08/31/09 - The Marvel Superheroes Have Arrived At The Magic Kingdom
08/17/09 - Time Warner Needs To Fire Snyder and Sorcher
08/04/09 - Who Wants (Gets?) 4Kids?
05/07/09 - The New NAU
08/08/08 - Let The Games Begin
07/30/08 - Expanding the Original Universe, The Birth of a New Powerhouse, and More
07/17/08 - The Other Guy Speaks and A Victory?
07/10/08 - Love of Crossing Bridges

Not An Update

03/03/09 - Neophytic Media
02/16/09 - The Word Is Doga
02/13/09 - Animation Segregation
02/09/09 - Don't Care
09/21/08 - Farewell Toonami
08/08/08 - Sideways Grins
07/30/08 - Searching For Life
07/14/08 - Theft or History?
07/11/08 - Warner Wants DC Comics To Do Something
07/10/08 - Ten Years Later

Ask TXB

02/02/07: Should Bleach REALLY Be On Adult Swim?
01/26/07: What Is Motion Capture, Really?
01/19/07: Where's The Love For Adult Swim?
01/12/07: Why Are You So Lenient on Nick and Disney Channel?

Watch This Space

2008

4/9/08: The End of Toonami is Nigh
4/3/08: Separate But Not Equal
3/18/08: The Actions of Nicktoons Network
3/17/08: One, Five, and Eleven Years Ago Today
2/27/08: It's Time For A Revolution
2/4/08: There Is No Safe Harbor
1/23/08: Whatever Happened To Jonny and the Girls?
1/21/08: The Era of Change
1/07/08: The Epiphany - Written

2007

12/7/07: To Moratorize or Not To Moratorize
11/27/07: Good Bye (For Now)
11/13/07: Cartoon Network, Strikes, and Agendas
10/16/07: I Get It Now
9/7/07: A Dream I Had Recently
9/7/07: Let's All Go To The Movies
7/20/07: The State of Toonami '07
7/16/07: What Have I Created?
5/29/07: How Star Wars Didn't Change My Life
5/23/07: Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Kids' WB Has Got To Go
5/8/07: Anime and Jap-Animation
5/1/07: Who Am I?
3/17/07: Toonami's 10th - A Look Back

2006

11/6/06: Beginning of the Rebirth
10/2/06: Ten Things For the Tenth Anniversary
9/22/06: Reason #18 of Why Nickelodeon Continues To Embarrass Cartoon Network
9/20/06: Fall of Our Discontent
6/28/06: Tooguzi and Minami
5/17/06: Visions of Starz Animated Originals
5/16/06: *clicks sonic gunhammer at Cartoon Network*
5/1/06: Why A Grown Man Cares About CN
3/17/06: Light The Birthday Cannon
3/7/06: Weep For Toonami UK
3/2/06: The Lackluster Morning After
1/25/06: "Wow, I Didn't See THAT Coming"

2005

11/23/05: Turkey Episode 2005
11/14/05: No More Excuses!
11/1/05: Who Put Live-Action In My Cartoon Network?
7/21/05: The Number Seven
6/21/05: Adult Swim Rants
6/8/05: Big Ratings Are Annoying
6/1/05: The End of Weekday Afternoon Kid-Vid
5/10/05: The New Taste of DC
5/5/05: Redefining This Space
4/19/05: Defending Loonatics and PPGZ
2/17/05: The Morning After
2/15/05: Naruto's Licensed, Now What?
2/2/05: Time Warner's Making Anime
1/24/05: Can You Believe CN's (Dragon) Balls?

2004

12/2/04: The End of My Computer
9/25/04: Is America Ready For Animax?
9/24/04: Intro to the Action-Animation Voice
7/10/04: TXB Turns Six
6/7/04: Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
6/7/04: What's Tokusatsu?
5/20/04: Hard At Work
5/1/04: Night Three Impressions
4/24/04: Night Two Impressions
4/17/04: First Night Impressions
4/8/04: Once Again, The Ultimate Action Block Arises
3/26/04: How To Build A Network Without The Work
3/17/04: Seven Years Ago . . .
3/15/04: The Road Not Taken
2/27/04: The Slippery Slope
2/26/04: The New Order
2/24/04: One Year Ago
2/19/04: Unneeded Aggression?
2/18/04: The Muppets Are Taken By Disney
2/14/04: The Death of Toon Disney
2/13/04: DC Comics Enters The Manga Industry
2/11/04: To Everything, There Is A Season
1/29/04: A Milestone Mark
1/24/04: The Definition of "Toon"
1/22/04: Where Will The Seeds Be Planted?
1/21/04: SEEDing Cartoon Network
1/8/04: What Is Jetix?
1/7/04: New Year. New World.

2003

12/12/03: TXB Year in Review
11/26/03: Turkey Episode 2003
11/25/03: They've Created A Monster
11/24/03: 2003's Almost Over
10/28/03: Big O-Gate and Other Deviltries
10/24/03: Fall Back
10/13/03: Yellow Jumpsuits and Crafted Metal
10/12/03: Farewell Bill Jemas
10/10/03: They Think I'm Crazy
10/1/03: Wanted: Creators of Worlds
9/25/03: E-lec-tri-city, E-LEC-TRI-CITY!
9/15/03: Storm's A-Brewin'
9/11/03: Two Years Ago
9/10/03: The Aftermath
9/9/03: ANX Interviews The Man
9/8/03: Toonami Network On The Air
9/3/03: No SD Gundam Review Here
8/27/03: Jeez, September is When?
7/22/03: Dreamworks Gives Up
7/19/03: When Nal Meets Arse
7/15/03: The Perfect Animated Murder Scene
7/10/03: Five Years Ago . . .
7/5/03: The Next ReBoot?
7/3/03: CNX Becomes Toonami in September
6/30/03: Viva La Revoluccion!
6/16/03: It's Still A Stupid Name
6/11/03: Sneak Peek of 2011
6/10/03: Living Emoticons
6/9/03: Whatever Happenened To Predictability?
6/7/03: There Is No Spoon
5/6/03: Robot Parade
5/5/03: What Were You Expecting, Yellow Spandex?
4/27/03: What Is CNX? (The Final Chapter of CNX)
4/17/03: Spike TV is a Stupid Name
4/15/03: Scrambled Connections
4/14/03: Visions of Toonami Blue
4/11/03: Moments of Stupidity on the Rise
4/10/03: Free Comics, Oduacon, and Tidbits
4/7/03: Farewell DBZ
4/2/03: Nothing Happens
3/28/03: Pay No Attention To 4Kids and the New York Daily News
3/26/03: The Epic Project
3/25/03: Ratings Are A Joke
3/24/03: Rappers, Dragons, and a Damned Word
3/23/03: Week in Review
3/19/03: Nothing Happens After Change
3/17/03: Bonus Issue: First Impressions
3/17/03: Toonami Turns Six!
3/15-16/03: The NeXt Chapter Begins
3/14/03: March Madness (Toonami Style)
3/13/03: Say Goodbye To TOM 2.0
3/12/03: Excuses, Excuses
3/11/03: A Reason To Like The New Guy
3/10/03: Bye Bye Kellner
3/2/03: The New Faces of Toonami Revealed
2/28/03: GRW - Day Five and Overall Recap
2/27/03: GRW - Day Four Recap
2/26/03: GRW - Day Three Recap
2/25/03: GRW - Day Two Recap
2/24/03: GRW - Day One Recap
2/22/03: Barely Made It
2/21/03: What A Week
2/20/03: The Force Is Strong With This Update
2/19/03: A Message To Mr. Kent
2/18/03: Six More Days . . . BRRR!!
2/17/03: Schedule Recap
2/16/03: . . . In This Piece
2/15/03: Um . . . Yeah
2/14/03: And a Wandering Samurai Will Lead The Way To Change . . .
2/11/03: Who Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring?
2/10/03: Only Shooting Stars Break The Mold
2/5/03: Just When Common Sense Returned . . .
2/3/03: Space: Memories of Yesterday
1/31/03: A Balance in the Force
1/28/03: Temperature in Hell . . . Absolute Zero
1/24/03: The Coldest Week Ever
1/23/03: Remembering Captain Kangaroo
1/13/03: And Then There Were Two
1/8/03: Change Is In The Air
1/1/03: The Long Tomorrow

2002

12/17/02: The Mid-December Pre-Christmas CNX Spectacular Spectacular
11/27/02: Turkey Episode 2002
11/18/02: It's Later
11/13/02: Awakened
11/6/02: The Anime Network Is Born
11/4/02: Moments of Clarity and Utter Stupidity
11/3/02: OMG! They Said PM!
10/14/02: Reasons Cartoon Network Doesn't Care
9/24/02: The Dream's A Reality?
9/20/02: The (Lack of) Hype Surrounding TiH
8/29/02: The Ham Hams Go Bye-Bye!
8/25/02: You Will Believe A Webmaster Can Be Wrong
8/22/02: You Will Believe A Robot Can Do The People's Elbow
8/21/02: The Triumphant Return of Old School 8/20/02: Welcome Back to CNX
7/27/02: It's Getting Chaotic Around Here!
7/13/02: Prepare For Shutdown
7/10/02: Still Standing After All These Years
6/28/02: Let's Do The Time Warp Again!
6/20/02: Let's Rewind
6/13/02: August Has Power!
6/6/02: The Transformation of Toonami
6/3/02: What Th - - ?
6/1/02: Return of the Moon Princess
5/24/02: Return of the Third Hour
3/30/02: Gallery Anxiety
3/20/02: Robots In Disguise
3/17/02: Toonami Turns Five (For Real)
2/15/02: A Little Bit of Old School
2/8/02: Let the Games Begin!
2/1/02: Reintroduction to CNX!

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