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  1. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    My real point was the horrible irony of '73 and the blue marble photograph being the symbolic end of a certain type of age of exploration and imagination. Until then the ends of the earth were still mysterious and the moon was somehow possible. The same moment is evocative of our hitting our...
  2. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    We can always hope. It might be a bit of a "Build it and they will come" attempt. The One Way Mars Trip is interesting too. Not that it sounds like a particularly good idea but that the number of interested people proves that we haven't yet turned into a world of of wussies afraid of the...
  3. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    Oh my God! Those nasty things started a whole revolution of plastic food. I thought they were cool as a kid ... for about a year. Then I suddenly recognized them as the horror they were. A newer version of Tang still seems to show up in MRE packs ... it's actually good compared to some of...
  4. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    You know, you'd hope that was true but, while I haven't researched it other than to just talk casually to a few people and read an article or two, it does seem that the basic "get out of the gravity well" technology hasn't progressed much. A friend of mine (actually I bought her a shuttle part...
  5. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    Now, I'm certainly not trying to prove anything, my feelings only, but when I was talking with the owner at Norton he said that he was getting more inquiries to "study" (read scan) parts than to buy them. Basically private companies are attempting to recreate individual part designs from the...
  7. MikeKardec

    The End of the Era ...

    Contrary to many on this site I consider the end of the Era to be 1973, the year we got bored with going to the moon and chose not to return, the year THIS horrifying photo was taken -- There is no Skull Island, no Land That Time Forgot, no Atlantis ... we saw our limits and we decided that...
  8. MikeKardec

    Getting People Into Movie Theatres

    People can be pretty obnoxious in theaters ... of course we were all supposed to suck it up and keep our mouths shut back in the days when smoking was permitted. Though I find it harder and harder to get myself to go out to the movies ... and that's saying something because there is a top notch...
  9. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    One of the issues both good and bad in the world of professional screenwriting is the amount of scrutiny of every line. It's great when you have a development executive who carefully looks at everything and sensitively questions it without telling you how to go about fixing what they think...
  10. MikeKardec

    Getting People Into Movie Theatres

    If I remember correctly you are right, Wagner was pretty typical of his time and culture; meaning an unthinking mild anti-semitism, though I believe he maintained Jewish friends. I have Jewish Eastern European family members and they were pretty thick skinned even post WWII and they liked their...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    No. You are in the business of creating images, as in bits of IMAGINATION. You are writing CODE for the chemical computers between our ears. Your code programs that software to creates its own, highly individual imagery that is tailored exactly and individually to each and every reader. Each...
  13. MikeKardec

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    Hemingway and Gellhorn was a turd in my opinion ... good actors but with a problematic script. I always liked Islands in the Stream but I never was particularly worried about it's accuracy to any interpretation of Hemingway the man himself. He has become a sort of symbol or trope, and thus no...
  14. MikeKardec

    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    Or stupid about pulling the kidnapping to begin with! My great and great great grandparents were back and forth over the Canadian border for a couple of generations prior to that period. They never admitted that they were or weren't citizens of either country that I know of. They just sort of...
  15. MikeKardec

    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    Well that makes it clear that Japanese were even less welcomed here than even some other places where they weren't all that welcome! However, I had a cousin by marriage (who'd be in his 90s if still alive) from Japan. His father came in the 1890s but I believe they had family members somehow...
  16. MikeKardec

    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    I understand. You can't change what the man said. And how many movements that we know of are starting right now using terms and behavior that we would privately question yet not choose to speak about or act against? We feel it's their problem and that we don't yet know where it's all going or...
  17. MikeKardec

    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    Absolutely! Right now there are a number of places around the world where BOTH sides are taking on this behavior. Far too many people CHOOSE (as the Nazis did with the Jews) an enemy and insist that they are evil and anti and prejudiced and lower than human, far too many people seem to want...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    They are just letting you know they read it. Personally, I think that the, "the way I'd hoped." is a bit obnoxious but they probably think they are being nice, so how do you fault that? I REALLY doubt that they LITERALLY meant the "narrative voice," like whether it was first person present or...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Don't worry about it until you've put it away for awhile and never under estimate what revisiting something can do. We ALL labor under the sword of "Is It Sh*t", and sometimes it is ... but rarely is a piece utterly useless, though you may have to wait a few years to see what sprouts from that...
  21. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    In the midst of my story structure research and update project. I'm very impressed with the significance of having a good Mid Point/Tipping Point/Hinge Point to shift the story into "we're not fooling around anymore mode. It's also interesting to me how many times I followed that model before...
  22. MikeKardec

    For the Raiders fan ...

    Here's a link to the much lauded (possibly just because so many people really didn't Kingdom of the Chrystal Skull) "secret" Frank Darabont draft of Indy 4 -- https://file.wikileaks.org/file/indiana-jones-4.pdf Personally, I think the wind went out of the Indiana Jones sails immediately after...
  23. MikeKardec

    For the Raiders fan ...

    I've had an early copy of the Raiders of the Lost Arc script for many years that includes, as and additional adventure, the nightclub scene that was eventually used in the beginning of Temple of Doom. Originally, I guess, the Staff of Ra was two separate pieces, the gem that focuses the light...

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