All of these things have not appeared in either Ghost Rider, or Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance.
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A List of Things That Have Not Appeared in Ghost Rider Movies
Posted in Braak, comic books, reviews with tags Braak, Ghost Rider, ghost rider spirit of vengeance on February 21, 2012 by braakGhost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Posted in Braak, comic books, reviews, Threat Quality with tags Braak, Ghost Rider, ghost rider spirit of vengeance on February 21, 2012 by braakHolland has already said some things, and they are all true, and basically comprehensive, but I wanted to flip out about a couple other things also. Actually, really I want to just flip out some MORE about the things that he already said.
BEHOLD MY INVENTIONS!
Posted in Braak on February 19, 2012 by braak
New bar set up, featuring…MY INVENTIONS!
From left to right: Creme de Cacao, Creme du Mure (blackberry liqueur), Creme Frambois (strawberry liqueur), L’Esprit de l’Eclair (black tea, ginseng, and ginger spirit), and l’Esprit du Mort (habanero, cocoa, rum spirit).
New Kindle Fire Project
Posted in Braak with tags Braak, inventions, kindle projects on February 16, 2012 by braakHere are three things that are true:
1) I require an enormous amount of intellectual stimulation, which is why I often try to watch movies and listen to music while playing video games (sometimes also with a book open).
2) I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and it has movie-watching capabilities.
3) Watching movies on a Kindle while having it propped up on a little stand or something is kind of lame.
Here is my solution.
Happy Mola Ram Day!
Posted in Braak with tags mola ram day, valentine's day on February 14, 2012 by braakLo, it shall be written: February 14th is hereby rechristened Mola Ram Day.
NO TIME FOR LOVE, DOCTOR JONES!
The Woman in Black, or: Harry Potter Versus a Scary Ghost
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, poetics, reviews with tags Braak, daniel radcliffe, the woman in black, theater, verisimilitude on February 13, 2012 by braak
Today I am here to talk to you about The Woman in Black, and just so we’re clear here: I am not going to “review” The Woman in Black, like I’m Roger Ebert and I’m trying to help you decide how to spend a Saturday night. A review like that is going to say things like, “I won’t give too much away, but…” I am going to give everything away. If you do not want the movie “spoiled” for you, then stop reading at once. Maybe get back to work? It’s the middle of the day, you probably have some kind of job you should be doing.
Anyway, The Woman in Black.
DC’s Nielsen Survey
Posted in Braak, comic books with tags Braak, comics, DC Comics, nielsen market research on February 9, 2012 by braakSo, remember that DC market research survey I talked about a while ago? Well, the results are in, and they’re over here.
Quelle surprise, DC has not significantly altered its demographic in any way, just like everyone said they weren’t going to by doing basically exactly the same thing that they’ve always done.
Moreover, no information is available about WHY PEOPLE DIDN’T PURCHASE BOOKS. Not only THAT! Not only did they not ask the question! But it turns out that they didn’t even count surveys in which the respondents didn’t actually purchase a title — which means they have ZERO statistics on the people who looked at, but didn’t BUY any of their comics.
When I was in the 10th grade, I took an anthropology class and we decided to get statistics on the people who came into our classroom by accident (a pretty frequent occurrence), in the hopes of gleaning useful information about them. Halfway through proposing the study, we realized it would be completely fucking useless if we didn’t check to see how many people DIDN’T come into our room by accident.
In the tenth grade. Before we even started the survey.
Above all, this was plainly a survey that was not designed to find out what the problems were (because if it had been, they would have asked clear questions about the things they knew were problems), but one that was designed to affirm what DC wanted to believe: it was commissioned as a way to PROVE THEIR SUCCESS, not to figure out their failures. Bad science, DC; not only did you not succeed at your goals, but now you don’t even know why.
You guys.
Nielsen is just a bad market research company.
Before Watchmen: WHAT BRAAK! HAS TO SAY!
Posted in Braak, comic books, crotchety ranting with tags Alan Moore, Before Watchmen, Braak, comic books, Watchmen on February 8, 2012 by braakI have to write this, I guess, because Holland called his article “Holland’s take”, and that automatically implies that I’m going to have some different kind of a take. And I guess I kind of do. Not completely different, but I do think the position of “Just Don’t Buy It” skirts perilously close with “Everyone Shut Up and Let BUYING Decide,” which I’ve argued is a bullshit position. And that makes me interested in the entire nature of this Before Watchmen conversation.
Seven Swords of Shaolin
Posted in Braak on January 30, 2012 by braakSeven Swords of Shaolin is an epic, kung fu RPG for the…uh, let’s say the XBox and the PS3. It comes with a “sword” — a plastic weapon that has a rumble pack and a bunch of gyroscopes and what not to keep track of its position. In the game, you take the part of Zhou Xuan-Yun, a young martial artist who, in his quest to avenge his murdered brother, travels throughout medieval China to learn the secrets of the sword.
The Theology of (Certain) Quarterbacks
Posted in Braak, religion with tags Braak, christianity, religion, Tim Tebow on January 12, 2012 by braakA friend of mine put this image up on Facebook:
I thought it was kind of funny, you know, and then someone responded with “So, we should just pray for world peace and nothing else?” in a way that seemed to me (purely delusory, of course, since there’s no way to establish tone or feeling on the internet) a kind of a snotty way, and I started thinking about it, and now I’m going to write about it.
What follows is a lengthy discussion of Christian theology, so I guess everyone but Moff and Carl can check out and come back tomorrow, when maybe Holland will write about Iron Man or something.
