Chris Braak's Blog, page 8
April 12, 2014
Witchknights
Often, my ability to think of things exceeds my ability to actually draw them.Filed under: Threat Quality
April 11, 2014
Cities on the Red Frontier: Factions
A brief listing of some of the factions of persons on Mars.Filed under: Threat Quality
April 4, 2014
Cities on the Red Frontier: Technology
A few ideas about the technology availabe on Mars in the 27th century.Filed under: Threat Quality
March 31, 2014
Christopher Durang and the Court of Cannibals
Christopher Durang – America’s most beloved author of community theater audition monologues – has a new play called Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In 2013 it won the Tony Award for Outstanding New Play. It won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Production, the Drama League Award for Best Production […]
March 29, 2014
On Satire, Stephen Colbert, &c.
The recent events relating to Stephen Colbert and his jokes about Dan Snyder’s attempts to obviate the fact that his football team’s name is a racial slur with a kind of pathetic attempt at cultural bribery — lots of recent events, responses, and counter responses — have got me thinking about this. I follow a […]
March 28, 2014
Cities on the Red Frontier: Culture
Thoughts about the culture of Mars in the 27th century.Filed under: Threat Quality
March 21, 2014
Cities on the Red Frontier: History
Some notes about the history of Mars in the 27th century.Filed under: Threat Quality
March 14, 2014
Cities on the Red Frontier: Modern Mars
A few brief paragraphs about the state of Mars in 27th century.Filed under: Threat Quality
March 6, 2014
Guns of Cydonia
Behold! Here is a new thing! Cities on the Red Frontier is the name for a series of interlocking sci-fi/western epics set on Mars in the 27th century. This is the background material for these stories, which I am probably never going to get around to. I wrote the screenplay for the first one, Guns […]
February 21, 2014
Imagine This for a Second
I am just saying, like, imagine this, imagine that Leni Riefenstahl made a move in the 1930s, and in that movie an army of sub-human rat-monsters tried to destroy Germany with the aid of a sneaky shape-changing mastermind with mind-control powers, and so Hermann Goering got together a Nazi Obermensch, Werner Von Braun, a berserker […]
