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America’s Most Convenient Bank

Posted in Braak on May 18, 2009 by braak

Recently, the bank at which my theater company banks, Bank North, was bought by TD Bank, and now they’re all TD Bank. Maybe it was the other way around. Whatever, it was something like that. I used to have one bank, now it’s a different bank. I heard all of these radio commercials with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, talking about how great this merger was going to be, and shouldn’t I be EXCITED for it? It’s going to be AMERICA’S MOST CONVENIENT BANK! ZOMG!!!111!!!1

Kelly Ripa always wants me to be excited about things. Today, though, I went to make a deposit.

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Workblog Preview Post ONE!

Posted in Threat Quality on May 15, 2009 by braak

I guess that’s what we should call this. Holland and I have decided, in light of certain pieces of fiction we’re going to be working on and (possibly) running here at TQP, we thought we might today give you a preview. I’m going to put some of my notes up now, Holland will put some of his up later this afternoon.

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I Speak TV: Your Buddy, Your Pally, Your Season Finale (Part I)

Posted in Jeff Holland, Threat Quality with tags Dollhouse, Fringe, House, I Speak TV, Jeff Holland, Lost on May 13, 2009 by braak

So good TV is wrapping up for the season, and it’s time to look at how things shook out.

This week, we’ll look at “Dollhouse,” “House,” “Fringe,” and “Lost.”

Let’s dig in:
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A Lesson In Grammar

Posted in Threat Quality on May 13, 2009 by braak

I was hoping to avoid writing things specifically about “politics” or “the news,” but this keeps coming up, and it’s pissing me the fuck off, so I want to say something about it.

At the White House Correspondents’ dinner, Wanda Sykes got some flack for saying that she hoped Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys failed, in response to his repeated assertions that he hoped the president’s policies for the stimulus and budget failed.

Let’s talk about this for a second.

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Summer Movie A Go-Go: “Star Trek”

Posted in Jeff Holland, Threat Quality with tags Jeff Holland, Star Trek, summer movies on May 12, 2009 by braak

Oh-ho, Star Trek! Well done!

There, that’s my review.

Fiiiiine, I’ll say a little more. This is where we’re gonna get more complimentary AND critical, all the while being remarkably vague because people should have to seek out spoilers.

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Cezanne

Posted in Braak on May 11, 2009 by braak

What? I can write about Cezanne if I want to. I am cultured. I know about art and shit.

Paul Cezanne was a famous, late 19th century “Post Impressionist,” and was apparently very important. They just did an exhibition about him at the Philadelphia Art Museum, and they had his paintings, and a bunch of paintings by people who were influence by them (Picass, Braque, Matisse, Johns), along with effusive quotations about how great he was.

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Short Fiction Friday: “The Multi-Temporal Rowhome”

Posted in Jeff Holland, Threat Quality with tags Fiction, Jeff Holland, Time Travel on May 7, 2009 by braak

(This is one of the…odder…stories I’ve ever written, the result of an old memory of a house in south Philly that really just Should Not Be There, and way too much conversation about temporal anomalies. But hell, let’s see how she flies, right? -JH)

What is there to say about the multi-temporal rowhome? Is it all in the name, then? Well…what’s in a name?

It exists – as far as we know – both in 2007 and 2152. “As far as we know,” because nobody’s ever accounted for it in other dimensions or realities – and we like to cover our bases. But in our dimension, it is notable for appearing only slightly out of place in each of its homes. Its design only a smidge out of sync with its neighboring houses.
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I Love Grant Morrison, But…

Posted in Jeff Holland, Threat Quality with tags DC Comics, Grant Morrison, Jeff Holland on May 7, 2009 by braak

…speaking as a writer, I kinda want to bash his face in with a brick.

Okay, that was unreasonably harsh, and I immediately take it back. But still, you go and read this, and see how you react – particularly if you’ve ever written a piece of fiction.

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Savour and Stone

Posted in Braak, Short Fiction with tags Braak on May 6, 2009 by braak

[A short fiction fragment. Is it a preview of an unwritten novel or story? The germ of an idea for an essay? No one can say for sure.]

I took a bus to get there. I remember thinking that this was the strangest part, though my sense of strangeness gradually fell away as I grew more acclimated to a world in which natural law did not apply. No doubt the last stages of my journey were the strangest, but with the even ebb and flow of ordinary life long-gone by then, I did not notice it. I took a rusty, clattering, rickety bus that looked like it had been in service since the beginning of time.

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Brief update from a traveling man

Posted in Jeff Holland on May 5, 2009 by braak

There are dead pigeons in the carport, I’ve so far given $15 to homeless people, the blackened mahi-mahi punished my stomach-stomach, this city-sized hotel’s elevators are slow as hell and there’s no Comedy Central on the cable.

Atlanta sucks.

That is all.

(Please note: this is written prior to my trip to the WORLD OF COCA-COLA! which may turn this whole trip around.)

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Archive for May, 2009

America’s Most Convenient Bank

Workblog Preview Post ONE!

I Speak TV: Your Buddy, Your Pally, Your Season Finale (Part I)

A Lesson In Grammar

Summer Movie A Go-Go: “Star Trek”

Cezanne

Short Fiction Friday: “The Multi-Temporal Rowhome”

I Love Grant Morrison, But…

Savour and Stone

Brief update from a traveling man

Super Important Supplementary Material!

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