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  1. MikeKardec

    The Seven Basic Plots

    As long as I'm giving mini reviews and critiques of books about writing, here's another one. Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots is an amazing and somewhat controversial piece of work. He tracks the evolution of story through the development of human culture. From The Epic of Gilgamesh...
  2. MikeKardec

    Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, and ...

    I just finished Steven Pressfield's, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t and his buddy, Shawn Coyne's, The Story Grid. They are interesting books and sort of function together. There's a lot of good information but there are some critical things lacking too. Steven Pressfield is a one time...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I started to write a review of ALLIED because it contains a number of writing mistakes I have been guilty of or writing wars I've recently fought but there were a lot of spoilers. If anyone comes out of this movie scratching their head about the choices made it might be worth posting but I'll...
  4. MikeKardec

    Show us your vehicles

    My parents had both an FJ55 and an FJ60 in the '70s and '80s. Awesome. A killer TLC in Australia, a match made in heaven. I lived down under for around a year a decade ago. Your picture made me a bit "homesick"!
  5. MikeKardec

    Arrival

    I can understand that, regardless of the fact I felt differently about it. A lot of my feelings about it are the fascination with the way the director can present what seems to be so little textual information and yet create what is quite a complicated story that is piled high with nuance. In...
  7. MikeKardec

    9mm or 45cal

    Remembering some of the people mentioned in the post I made up above here's a suggestion for research on alternatives to typical defense loadings: Some of those old guys, law enforcement types who were retiring in the late 1960s and early '70s, seemed to like heavy wadcutters of the type you...
  8. MikeKardec

    9mm or 45cal

    While researching something else I ran onto this thread about a certain pistol: http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-hand-ejectors-1896-1961/391937-best-1917-ill-ever-own-maybe-ever.html It's a beautiful custom S&W with some truly unique features, the most interesting being what seems to be a small...
  9. MikeKardec

    Arrival

    Not really pertaining to anything this site is about except community BUT ... A really terrific film made by some of the same people (director, editor, composer) that worked on last year's Sicario. Both thoughtful, creepy, amazingly atmospheric films. They have little else in common except...
  10. MikeKardec

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    I'm going to guess that a lot of that stuff, in the 1960s at least, came in through Interarms. If memory serves they started up buying armories all across Europe just after WWII. Initially the effort was through the US government and intended to "worry" the Red Chinese through the suggestion...
  11. MikeKardec

    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Until quite recently (and maybe until today) Central and South American government armories have tended to contain odd numbers of "classic" weapons from Thompsons to trapdoor Springfields. There was even a rumor of some containing arms and armor dating back nearly to the conquest! For some...
  13. MikeKardec

    WWII Films

    A great library of WWII films, I've been jotting down notes as I read this thread. I know quite a bit about the production of Das Boot: It's insanely accurate. A bolt for bolt copy of a Type VII sub. I was on the actual sub they copied a day or two before I had the chance to tour the sets at...
  14. MikeKardec

    Westworld

    Okay. You got me laughing. I'm guessing it all probably means nothing, except that writers are always desperate to figure out names and sometimes will pounce on anything that works without realizing the meaning. On the other hand, given the genre, you may be right about Robert Ford having...
  15. MikeKardec

    Westworld

    I am beginning to wonder if there isn't some information about this story lurking in the original movie ... that this is a sequel rather than a re-envisioning! The time line of the park; 30 plus years old (this could be 30 years after the future date of the park in the 1973 film). The fact...
  16. MikeKardec

    Ray and Charles, childhood friends

    Halloween was my favorite holiday as a boy. It came at that perfect time of year for growing older. You could say good-bye to the old days of summer, somehow always the foundation of childhood, and enter a new grade in school with all the sense of pride, anticipation, and fear that that might...
  17. MikeKardec

    The Greatest Show on Earth ...

    You learn something new every day. I guess it was like The Judd's farewell tour; once they started they just couldn't stop. The word was, if my memory can be trusted for anything now, that they had not done a train show in years and they were going to do one last tour. I hit it up in...
  19. MikeKardec

    The Greatest Show on Earth ...

    Hmm. This was over 10 years ago and they announced it as their final train show ... was that not true? I just took their word for it. Have I been spreading lies and enemy propaganda?
  20. MikeKardec

    Westworld

    It makes me wonder about what the outside world could be like. Today, though we play violent video games and watch violent films we also have a younger generation who is (at least pretending to be) gentler than we were. They complain about being triggered by all sorts of stuff that is par for...
  21. MikeKardec

    Westworld

    I'm finding this mesmerizing. Obviously, it's a re-envisioning of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie ... which I had forgotten he directed. It's a theme park, a far more than "virtual" reality environment where you can go to live out your fantasies of "history" (it's much more a place of...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    By the way and just to introduce today's odd factoid: The first "Spaghetti Western" (Italian Western movie) was a Weird Western. Vincenzo Leone (father of Sergio!) directed "Vampira Indiana" in 1913!
  23. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'm not sure it could hurt. Read up on the blogs and websites and such about the pluses and minuses of each Kindle program. You have a blog and you'd probably best start an author FB page. Gather a core group of people who read and give honest reviews on Amazon. Keep a good mailing list...

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