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  1. MikeKardec

    Hairspray That Smells Like Hairspray

    HA! I have no idea! I sort of thought that a lot of hat she was supposed to be doing was separating me from bad entities/influences, so my take on the hair spray has been the opposite of yours but that's just the story I made up for myself, no telling if it's the truth. There is an additional...
  2. MikeKardec

    Breif Review: For All Mankind

    For All Mankind (2 seasons and possibly another on the way) on Apple Plus is pretty good. It's a alternate history of the space race based on the concept that the Soviet Union got to the moon just prior to Apollo 11. Basically, a version of the space race where it was really an ongoing race...
  3. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    If James Mangold is, and remains, the director of Indy V I will cautiously remain optimistic. He's an excellent choice provided there is a decent script and seems unlikely to take on the job without having some hope that the writing will be acceptable. Mangold and I went to film school...
  4. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    VERY few writers have the discipline to just bull forward, rather than going back and screwing around perfecting things. I have this failing but, most of the time, getting in and getting to the end is the best remedy. Then rewrite, rethink, reassess ... though probably in the opposite order!
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    What are you Writing?

    The most important aspect is to get something down on paper. Once you externalize the story you can start to react to it as something separate from you. Then the process is a negotiation, a dialog, that you have with it to see what it can be and what it wants to be (stories don't always want...
  7. MikeKardec

    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    AWESOME! I have a lot more hope for fuel cells than I do with electrics. At the moment F?C cars take a beating from pure electrics because of the lack of super acceleration aspect, but hopefully not forever! So true. We can do this much better than we did 50 years ago.
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    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    Sydney to Perth on the Indian Pacific was fascinating. I'd done a bit of train travel prior but that was the longest single ride. I bought a First Class ticket with my high value (at the time) US dollars but enjoyed the amenities in Second better. First was too snooty ... even in Australia...
  9. MikeKardec

    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    A Galloping Goose -- --
  10. MikeKardec

    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    I have noted three things specific to Tesla cars: 1) Super fast. They leave most internal combustion cars in the dust. 2) Incredible longevity. If they don't develop software issues, they go and go and go. No idea how many battery changes you'll need in the "lifetime of the car" but the...
  11. MikeKardec

    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    It's so interesting, this is an idea I NEVER hear about in the US. It simply never comes up. I'm kind of plugged into the UK classic car scene and many Brits use it as an explanation for why they choose to restore an old car. The Americans just look at them (figuratively) like they are crazy...
  13. MikeKardec

    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    I've lived, on and off, west of Durango, CO. Up until the '20s or '30s the area used to be interlaced with narrow gauge tracks with Durango, Silverton, Dolores, Cortez, Hesperus, Mancos, Bayfield and Ignatio all being in the network. It's quite a large area and there was probably more of it...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Well, Ellroy has gone to copying himself. Disappointing. He was insanely great in the era of The Black Dahlia and The Big Nowhere. Sort of like Jack Webb meets Allen Ginsberg. I generally don't like "overwritten" material but he took style to new and somehow uniquely themed heights. It...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    My take (never having done it) is that you'd be vastly better to self publish with Kindle Originals. I worked for/with (I was self employed) Dell Magazines in the 1990s and EQ was one of our sister publications. I used to joke that they were still paying the same dollar amounts that the pulps...
  16. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I just don't like to see people's creativity stifled! And I've seen Dragnet inspire some pretty interesting stuff. The early (good) James Ellroy novels were a response to Dragnet among other influences. They have very much the same relationship as the Sergio Leone movies do to Hollywood...
  17. MikeKardec

    Classic Safari vehicles!

    Interesting. Up until last year I had a 15,000 lb. off road camper based on a F-550. With an auto. I never minded it under bad conditions and always felt I had a gear that worked. However, back in the days of the old 3 speed GM Turbo 400 (a great automatic for it's day) I would never have...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Seriously, why don't you change the names, alter anything that relates to the series directly and publish them as originals? Create your own series with enough differences to skirt any issues. You've done the hard work already. There's nothing unique about Dragnet ... that was kind of it's...
  20. MikeKardec

    Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

    Recycling batteries with current or recent technology has gone VERY poorly here in SoCal. Our main recycling plant has somehow (I have yet to hear a good explanation) spewed heavy metals all over the area. They have been finding residue under shelves in homes miles away. It's a mess. Not to...
  21. MikeKardec

    Books about WW2 from a German perspective

    When I worked for Bantam Books in the 1980s we published or had recently published a whole line (over 50) of WWII memoirs under a "Bantam War Book" designation. They were paperback reprints of just about every significant book written by a vet. Many had a lot of info on life in Germany as well...
  22. MikeKardec

    Classic Safari vehicles!

    I've always been torn on this one. In "the old days," basically my youth in the 1980s I loved a stick shift (though there are good ones and bad ones) because the automatics left a lot to be desired. Since then the automatics have improved so much I really appreciate them in many vehicles. I'd...
  23. MikeKardec

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Guys in the nuclear power industry used to say that there had been more radiation released into the atmosphere by burning coal than in all the reactor accidents in history. I don't know how true that is but it does give us something else to worry about! Freaking awesome!

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