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  1. MikeKardec

    Tales of the Gold Monkey

    There is a whole series of cultural issues here: Most particularly is the tendency to "turn inward" in our thinking. Focusing on relationships within a group rather than the outward adventure is a good deal of the issue. Given that the most profitable form of entertainment right now and the...
  2. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    With all the other towns around Nashville I have always wondered what it was about Franklin that made it so expensive. As far as I've seen the properties aren't astoundingly different than other places, like Murfreesboro. I'll have to get there on the ground and have a look around. I wonder...
  3. MikeKardec

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    I was in Germany, West Germany, at the end of the 1980s. I barely knew what was going on but what I could see was very exciting. The wall had yet to fall but individuals in the West were already planning land grabs in the East. I sat one night with a group of young businessmen who were sure...
  4. MikeKardec

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    I discovered this too while reading newspapers from the midwest and upper midwest during the 1920s and '30s. If it wasn't "democratic lynchings" (the KKK) it was ax murderers and, the more things change the more they stay the same, school bombings. The numbers are more shocking when you...
  5. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    No there isn't. I've considered doing it but never wanted to deal with all the confusing permissions or interrupt or confuse our (less dated) fiction publishing schedule (we've been able to bring out a lot of new or hard to find stuff since Dad passed away). There's a few of his interviews on...
  7. MikeKardec

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    I've always found that in Film (as well as other mediums but in the case of film it is extreme) American product is more of a product of American fears and fantasies than it is in other cultures. Some of that is because it was started by people who aspired to more than they could easily achieve...
  8. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    No Traveller Returns written by myself and my father, Louis L'Amour. Clearly my part was completed quite a bit more recently. Of interest to people here, his work was done between 1937 and 1942. It is part of what I jokingly call Louis 1.0, the other versions of his career were the pulps...
  9. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    And a far higher royalty. Last time I looked Kindle Originals were paying up to 70%, if you chose the right price point. The major publishers are willing to pay 25% on ebooks, proving that cutting out the publisher is worth a LOT. That said, there is very little support for the author from...
  10. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    It's an interesting thing I have a retail operation but I work in publishing with a major company. Kindle originals and other direct to "e" novels have recreated the energy, financial incentives and types of writing that made the paperback book the powerhouse it was in the period from 1950 to...
  11. MikeKardec

    Tales of the Gold Monkey

    Actually I loved that too but, as you've probably guessed, I'd have greatly appreciated a more period and 'serious' take on the 1950s stuff. Have you noticed that whenever there is a movie within a movie, the movie with in the movie is stupid and poorly made. It's as if filmmakers have an...
  13. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    Yeah. I grew up cruising Van Nuys Blvd for street races with an older guy who showed how to turn it into a business. I went into film and realized that its overlapping stories, overlapping sound, and show don't tell approach were unique and wonderful. It was made for people like me. I knew...
  14. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    It's not that sort of store. On-line only. It's in an old machine shop east of Issaquah. I used to take PA quite seriously, especially the eastern part where you are fairly close to NYC where I do a good deal of business. With NYC circling the toilet and no assurance that my contacts will...
  15. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    It really seems that Lawrence Kasdan did the work we all love on Raiders. And, when you figure he'd just worked on Empire Strikes Back AND Body Heat and then Silverado you can kind of figure he kind of knew what he was doing. BUT Phillip Kaufman ALSO worked on Raiders. I really wonder what...
  16. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    Two years or a bit more ago I would have moved to WA in a minute. I have a small book retail business that a buddy of mine runs out of a town just west of the Cascades. It was high on the list (same with the Portland area) until things got ... weird. Montana sounds great and I've spent some...
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    An arms dealer in trouble with a number of governments ... not telling what he's in pursuit of but it's related to an ongoing conspiracy theory.
  19. MikeKardec

    Tales of the Gold Monkey

    Well, there was some discussion a little while ago about how Clark Savage Jr. was a "superhero" and that was something that SUPPOSEDLY worked these days. Yeah, maybe. It's never good to chase a declining trend. Especially with the now forgotten thing that STARTED it. Okay, maybe Tarzan...
  20. MikeKardec

    Looking to Relocate ... Ideas?

    I'm not in a rush, but I think my days in California are numbered. I have loved this place immensely. In my youth it was the most amazing, cosmopolitan city in the world. It was full of people who were full of aspirations. People came here to remake themselves and start again. It had it's...
  21. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Back to working on the new novel. Covid's been a HUGE distraction. But I'm finally back in the world of 1961. Barcelona, Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Caracas, Buenos Aires, and then down the coast of Chile. Hopefully, a great adventure.
  22. MikeKardec

    Noir music

    An impressively droll presentation ... this playlist is really quite good! https://www.megatoncaferadio.com/
  23. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones V

    If The Mandalorian is any evidence Disney simply can't make themselves think straight when it comes to features. They maybe contractually stuck with the wrong people and unable to extricate the properties. My concern is that even Lucas never really knew what he wanted to do with the series...

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