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  1. MikeKardec

    Why does Indiana Jones wear a leather jacket in the dessert?

    There's another answer to "why does Indiana Jones wear a leather jacket in the desert?" -- While, the film makers we're 1) trying to create a distinctive look; obviously they succeeded in spades, 2) they also wanted to keep Indy in the same costume as much as possible so that they could use...
  2. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    Another good one is "House of Rain" by Craig Childs which tracks the ""vanished"" Anasazi (ancestral puebloans) from their beginnings through their diaspora into Mexico. Vanished deserved double quotes because the old story is that they "vanished," because early 20th century European Americans...
  3. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    I love that historical "how to" sort of material. "The Prairie Traveler" is also a good one; a hand book for what to expect and how to prepare for the Oregon Trail.
  4. MikeKardec

    Tiki Culture

    Doing sound effects for a radio play set in Borneo. We had to burn a lot of palm thatch, which we obtained from a Tiki Restaurant supply outfit. At the end of the year we would buy all their dried out useless thatch and rattan matting (the stuff that hadn't already been fireproofed) and then...
  5. MikeKardec

    Forward Time Travel

    I find it hard to believe in one linear, locked in, timeline. If I had to create a theory of "time travel" it would be one of "side time;" absolutely everything, from the atomic level on up occupies multiple frames of existence one for each of it's "possibilities," or possible locations. The...
  7. MikeKardec

    Forward Time Travel

    A great book though the ending needed a bit more set up. I was about to go right to it regarding this thread but you beat me to it. It seems to me that cryo (the current version) does damage, death does damage ... that's two serious strikes against the "sleeper." I'd definitely want an...
  8. MikeKardec

    Tiki Culture

    Tales of the South Pacific is hard to top. Especially because of it's innovative episodic, part fiction, part non fiction, style. Very cutting edge for the time ... heck, even now. Michener spent YEARS trying to top it and, in my opinion, only partially succeeded. BTW the earlier (1950s)...
  9. MikeKardec

    Lost Cities!

    Just finishing The Lost City of the Monkey God, a recently published non fiction work by novelist and archeology writer for National Geographic and The New Yorker, Douglas Preston. An excellent and detailed account of the discovery of the mythical Cuidad Blanca in Honduras. Protected by a very...
  10. MikeKardec

    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    I'll have to find a copy, thanks for the info. I have to say I like the idea of reaching into my pants pocket for my Colt 1903 rather than unbuttoning my fly (or even unzipping it!). I think Dad mentioned that, at the time, people were loath to search a man's upper thighs for concealed weapons...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    That could be healthy ... though frustrating. I find that the more I have to revisit something, the more perspectives I see it from, the more it develops it's own voice and thus the better it gets. As long as you can keep track of or work to discover (they may be two different things) all...
  13. MikeKardec

    Tiki Culture

    Oh yeah! The Tiki places couldn't really distinguish between the East and West Indies but at the heart of it all the earliest Tiki places (pre war) seem like they were reminiscences of certain aspects of nautical life and so, I guess, East legitimately meets West. Post war the Tiki thing did...
  14. MikeKardec

    Frank Sinatra's vacation retreat is for sale

    Sinatra had three or more houses in the Palm Springs area, roughly one a decade from the late 1940s on. The first one probably looks more like what you'd expect, they used to rent it out and there are a lot of pics around the web. The change of address was likely because of divorce...
  15. MikeKardec

    Tiki Culture

    I spent a lot of time in Tiki restaurants as a kid in LA. The Islander, Trader VIc's, The Luau (that one had the best food, at least for a youngster), they all had the sense of being able to become "The Enchanted Tiki Room" if you just could stay until they closed. That Disney attraction...
  16. MikeKardec

    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    Here's a question: A coupe of times my father mentioned a deep concealment holster from the 1930s that somehow attached mid way up the inside of a man's thigh with the butt forward. The gun could be drawn through the right trouser pocket which was cut away inside. The wide legs of the...
  17. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    It's an additional plus that this series both gets the chance and TAKES the chance to explore how difficult it would have been for individual Germans and Japanese to have won the war and then have had to look back at both what that cost and who it made them in to. Ballsy writing and beautifully...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I've been most successful when I started planning my story from the "what is the climax?" question. I don't always do it but I know it eventually makes things easier. I'm going to try and be more focused on that in the future because it helps. Interestingly, writing non-fiction, as I've been...
  20. MikeKardec

    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    I always thought that the casting of Anne Parisse as John Basilone's wife was terrific, not that any HBO mini series suffers from bad casting. Lena Riggi was a few years older than John and Parisse, while always terrific, can present an air of sadness that underscores everything she does with a...
  21. MikeKardec

    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    They are both great shows and the issues we have discussed are interestingly "on theme" for the history of the different parts of the conflict. You're going to enjoy yourself!
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    No, for a writer, that's a tough schedule! So many different things to concentrate on, it would blow my mind and the same with many writers I know. Many have done that sort of thing once or twice as they try to get started but to keep going with it is a lot. I think it's amazing and admirable...
  23. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I'm guessing it's a matter of Branding with a limited vision of the future. You call yourself Datsun because you are afraid you can't sell Nissan in the USA or Range Rover because you never expect to sell any other model and it just gets you in trouble later. Hopefully those are good examples...

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