Chris Braak's Blog, page 38

Game of Thrones

By now, you've probably all read, or at least heard about, Ginia Bellafante's NYT review on Game of Thrones, which points out that this is basically a show for dudes, with some kinky sex action thrown in for the ladies. Boy was she right!  This was definitely a dudely show!  The only problem with it [...]

Attention the Internet!

I have a very terrible job, that fills me with depression and makes me want to set first me, and then everyone else, on fire.  There is only one thing that can save the world from the impending conflagration of my despair: Vote for me to be one of the voices on the audio version [...]

Just So We're Clear

THIS: Is pretty much the worst thing in the world. THIS! is pretty much the best thing in the world. Adjust your scales accordingly. Filed under: Jeff Holland, Threat Quality

The X-Wife

[Hey, this is pretty fun:  short story from first-time contributor Xavier McCaffrey.] Because my name is Xavier, we called her the X-Wife, which seemed funny at the time. But that was before the X-Wife cut out my heart with an X-Acto knife. Maybe I should have seen we¹d be incompatible, her with her X-Box, me [...]

Disposable TV

A spy's career is destroyed with paperwork, casting him out into the cold – though ironically, the only place he can go to ground is his home town of Miami. The only people who can help him return to the dangerous life he yearns for are an alcoholic ex-Special Forces retiree, and the spy's violent-tempered, [...]

So, Zod, huh? Zod. Again.

Sooo…the villain of the new Superman movie is Zod. Which means it's going to be that kind of Superman movie. The one where Superman gets thrown around a lot and constantly told that he's not one of us and he should rule over us and bla bla bla. I get the urge to not do [...]

Geek Culture Redux

Pursuant to my long, aimless, and more-than-a-little pretentious ramble on the subject of Geek Culture, I wanted to point this out.  Nerdyorkcity (a twitterer who I wish I WISH had been around when I lived in New York — before there was Twitter, but so what) linked to this site, in which this cat makes some [...]

Things My Brain Apparently Finds Worth Keeping

Over dinner with Braak and Jeanine, the musical City of Angels came up. If you don't know it, it's about a writer who butts heads with his own detective character. So there's pretty much no way I wouldn't love this musical. The thing's been in my head all week, and this morning, I realized that [...]

Thoughts About EVIL

I have just finished reading The Name of the Wind and its sequel, Wise Man's Fear. Much has been said about the former, and I have nothing to add. Much of what was said about the former can be accurately applied to the latter, and so I have little to add to this, except for [...]

Let's get all up in 'SuckerPunch'

I can't imagine Zach Snyder's feelings were hurt when everyone agreed SuckerPunch was, at best, a bit of a mess, and at worst, a crime against cinema. I'll bet he was braced for it the moment he realized his half-hour short film, "A Salute to Awesomeness," had to be padded out to be an actual, [...]