Chris Braak's Blog, page 48

Now: Charles Isherwood's Complaint

I put this up for about ten seconds last time, then I took it down and sold it to someone.  Now, I am linking to it instead!  My original title:  Naturalism–A Bad Form of Theater?  Or the Worst Form of Theater? was not approved. Filed under: Threat Quality

Movies That I've Watched a Second Time

1) Iron Man 2:  this remains a perfectly serviceable, fun little actioner.  But the fact that, in the old days, Howard Stark wasn't the bad guy and Anton Vanko wasn't the good guy now pisses me off to no end.  And the fact that when Tony Stark says, "I've tried every combination of every element," [...]

Serious Question About the Multi-Colored Lanterns

Hey…I'm just kind of noticing this but…but if the different colors are supposed to represent the "spectrum of emotions", is it weird that there isn't a "happiness"?  Or "sadness"?  Or any of the other things that are generally considered to be "emotions"? Filed under: Threat Quality

OH MY GOD!

http://blog.melissadunphy.com/2010/10... Filed under: Threat Quality

Some Thoughts on Green Lantern

Oh, man, I can't believe it took me this long to figure the guy out.  But here I am, sitting on the couch, trying to figure out why Hal Jordan would use his power ring to conjure a giant green jetplane when he wants to fly around instead of just, you know, flying around with [...]

Halloween Movie Playlist: 10+ Recommendations

(OR: "Stomping Around in the Dark: A 5-Year Retrospective!) (OR: "The Scary Things don't seem too concerned with hiding in big shadows. They just wait for you to look at them.") As Halloween weekend approaches, you're probably lining up your movie selections with your own personal playlist of great horror/suspense/sci-fi/dark-fantasy/what-have-you films. You've probably got some zombie [...]

Amazon, BookSurge, and What Does it All Mean?

Good question. Here's an article about how Amazon just bought BookSurge, an actual honest-to-god press.  Now, I'll admit that I thought that Amazon already HAD it's own press, and that was what they were doing Createspace with, but it turns out no — they were doing all of their printing with a third party. So. [...]

Naked, crazy and invisible: Halloween Movies 2010!

I haven't followed my usual pattern this month, wherein I watch a lot of horror (or horror-ish) movies of varying quality and try to figure out whether they're worth the time spent watching them. A couple reasons for this: The ones I didn't like weren't really that bad, just not all that interesting (there was [...]

Braak Is Losing His Mind

It's what happens when I don't have regular work, or a regular schedule, or any kind of enforced regularity.  I react by just letting my crazy brain and perpetually-malfunctioning body do whatever they want. Over the last couple weeks, I've repeatedly forgotten to eat, haven't gotten more than four or five hours of sleep a [...]

Another Serious Question! Conditional Reasoning

So, I want to know if other people have this trouble — either themselves, or maybe they know someone in a similar position. We're working on these posters for a theater company, right?  And there's a picture that the author has for the script, a picture of a car along the California cost.  And I [...]