Today at Kirkus...

...I wrote about Pete Hautman's The Obsidian Blade:

That’s when the pacing changes, and The Obsidian Blade goes from low-level-Ray-Bradbury-subtly-weird to off-the-wall-Jasper-Fforde crossed with The-Matrix-on-47,000-pounds-of-Sweet-Tarts-hyperweird. Plus some serious meditation on faith, religion and destiny, madness and vanity. Basically, it gets nuts, in the best possible way. And, in addition to being a rip-roaring adventure on its own, it sets the stage for some epic weirdness to come.

AND.

I emailed back and forth with Pete Hautman this morning, and I found out about the Buckaroo Banzai bit: it was a coincidence! (Which, considering the storyline, is just as fun as a deliberate reference.)

But now he's planning to go back in time to tell his past self about it, so once he's done that, it will be a quote from Buckaroo.

Er... you know what I mean, right? Time travel stuff is so hard to explain.