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  1. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    The literary types would poo-poo the idea but there has been a good deal of magical realism explored on TV in the last 20 years. Movies, in general, operate in more of a minor key fantasy mode much of the time.
  2. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It's wonderful to be starting out on a new project. I envy you. I've been in completion mode for so long and there's probably another year to go before this whole project; 3 new books (the first of them just out but all are finished) and 40 postscripts in older works (I think I have 12 or 13...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Magical realism is often a fundamentally realistic story yet with a few fantastic elements that occur. It's best if they play by a decent set of rules and don't corrupt the "reality" too much. A traditional drama where problems are not solved by supernatural elements yet those elements play an...
  4. MikeKardec

    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    I had a lot of trouble finding a fridge, the space in my house was made for a Monitor Top, which if I ever could have found one was, of course, too small for my needs ... not always but certainly several times a year. A remodel is under way and now there will be a Big Chill along with one of...
  5. MikeKardec

    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    There is a smaller "slim" Big Chill fridge ... might be too small for your needs though. There's the SMEG too.
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Ms. Amateis is usually right on these subjects in my opinion, so I'd second her advice. My personal take re Hawaii is take is that the days of movie and music fads are over and it comes off as a bit much. If the agent knows how to leverage this sort of thing (which, as I said is not so easy...
  8. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    My experience has been that true "off road" driving, as in no road at all, is pretty darn rare and few ever do it more than a few hundred yards. Bad "roads", however, are a very different thing, in fact they can be considerably harder to drive than no road at all in places because of the...
  9. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    The market is corrupted by the amount of money that the companies can make building luxury SUVs as opposed to real off roaders. I don't know if it's actually the market declining so much as greed. Ironically, LR created that luxury market with the Range Rover, though many others (like Jeep)...
  10. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It sure doesn't hurt to know where you are going! The Hinge or Dilemma usually puts me in the ball park. A "He realizes he cannot trust his father," hinge tends to assure a "He discovers he can trust his father but not necessarily in the way he thought," ending. I guess the Hinge leads to the...
  11. MikeKardec

    What is the "right" age to retire?

    I've never really understood retirement. Does it mean a person is never going to work again or does it just mean leaving one job for another while accepting the long term benefits of the first job? These days I think anyone would be taking a risk not earning some sort of income at any age, if...
  13. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    The Brat was just before the real brilliance began. But I have to say that the "helicopter collective" handgrips for the rear seats that made it look like you were at once in a video game and also that the truck was so fast and agile that you needed both a seat belt and pistol grips to stay in...
  14. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Subaru has the remarkable ability to LISTEN to what the US market has said over the years and to adapt to leverage our attitudes. Their all wheel drive platforms made them popular in cold country, their turbos made them popular in the mountains, all places where many of the last hippies hung...
  15. MikeKardec

    Hollywood partying, 50s-70s

    In the late 1980s a very well known and easily identifiable TV star told me that he could go out in public to many restaurants and not be bothered ... until someone had the courage to approach him. Once one person did it then everyone would join in looking for an autograph or just...
  16. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    The safety and emissions restrictions snowballed in the early 1970s. In many some cases the first generation of required changes wiped out the budget for the second. Europe was doing the same thing and so manufacturers got caught between dealing standards. Many of these car makers served...
  17. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I was blathering on too long as it was! My uncle raced the Hollywood Sport Cars #55 Tiger and the Shelby Daytona but that didn't get me any closer to my college buddy's cool set belts or license plates. In general I'm too gabby, so it's best when I can just stop typing and hit "post"!
  19. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Of course, and they've been pin the up-date on the donkey for almost 70 years, at some point you just run out of spots to put things without completely reengineering other things. It was just the inclusion of speaker cabinets that kicked me 'round the bend. Ha! I had a friend who bought a...
  20. MikeKardec

    RIP Land Rover Defender

    The Defender seems to have gone through some strange permutations yet without changing much. The buddy of mine who has taken the job of making some last custom touches on mine (slowly being reborn from a pile of parts) just received the new air con unit. The old one was big and clunky enough...
  21. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Interestingly, this is one of the major themes of the book I have out right now; exploring the limits of knowing what's going to be written versus searching for the story. Ambition vs practicality. I'm lost until I have that central "hinge point," or dilemma, figured out. I might be writing...
  22. MikeKardec

    Hollywood partying, 50s-70s

    Definitely a more civilized time. So many of those shots were taken in public places, restaurants, hotels and the like. It's pretty rare to hear that such a multitude of celebrities is out in public anymore or even to imagine that they could be convinced to hang out together. Hollywood was...
  23. MikeKardec

    What Shows/Movie Franchises have you "Rage Quit"?

    Still laughing at this!

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