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  1. MikeKardec

    9mm or 45cal

    Bigger is better if you can handle it well ... but if I had the choice of time and place I'd choose to be absent the area and era of any sort of violence. I've always felt that .45 LC or ACP was sort of a big slow jolly recoil and found controlling it or rolling with it easier than 9mm or .357...
  2. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Thanks for the congrats. I can't wait to REALLY move on! Supposedly the first book was to be published this Fall and the novel next Fall but I've found myself in a knock down drag out brawl with the publisher who doesn't want to honor their old contract (which isn't good but not necessarily...
  3. MikeKardec

    Readability

    I wonder if it hasn't broken through our normal bounds of politeness and community and revealed the tribal feelings that lurk beneath. I've co-moderated a forum since 2000 and one of the fascinating aspects of the way people blew up at one and other was how when one person stated their position...
  4. MikeKardec

    Your most historically interesting militaria

    Hmm. I have a pair of Hensoldt and Wetzlar Binoculars that my Dad got from a German plane he captured. The story was that Dad (who was in the transpo corps) was waiting in the shade with his platoon of fuel tankers at a recently captured airfield. A German plane landed, not realizing the...
  5. MikeKardec

    Where do these characters come from?

    A lot of the time this sort of minor character is created more by the actor who is cast and the wardrobe dept than the writer and director. The idea is to cast a group who look like they have a story. That goal very successfully achieved here and the director would have been involved in at...
  7. MikeKardec

    Readability

    It's true in all media. A 3 minute segment of film with a lot of cuts and angles will seem shorter than a 3 minute segment without. I'm not sure if music with a lot of dynamic range, the difference between high and low volume seems shorter than compressed range reduced "radio pop" but the...
  8. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I think I've moved on from finishing the one book to finishing another ... I've had three all developing in parallel and part of the same project. The first is wrapped up waiting for a contract before I send it back to the editorial dept. The deal making is difficult but the production people...
  9. MikeKardec

    9mm or 45cal

    It is interesting that, in more violent days and places, everywhere from the old west to "colonial" areas of the early to mid 20th century, quite a few people who's lives were threatened regularly opted for firearms which we would today consider under powered. An early example would be Hickok...
  10. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    10k is pretty darn high. My internal barometer gives me a touch of the nausea/altitude sickness right at 10,200 just like clockwork.
  11. MikeKardec

    Any good pre Edwarian era adventure novels?

    H Rider Haggard is the classic. For a modern day equivalent try Wilbur Smith's Courtney or Ballentyne Novels. Both track different aspects of the history of southern Africa from the 1870s to the 1980s, so a third or so of the collection falls in your area of interest. He'll have other...
  13. MikeKardec

    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    If you are having trouble getting into it there are a few things to be considered. Most importantly, it is attempting (far more seriously than other "non fiction" films) to ride the line of compromise between truth and entertainment. When asked to produce entertainment and given free reign a...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It is a Colorado thing that nearly everyone under 50, especially if they are on the "progressive" side of the political and personality scale (and plenty of others) exercises like MAD! Colorado mountain towns are bursting at the seams with Mountain Bikers, Snow Boarders, River Rafters, Hikers...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'd say that sounds pretty good. They do the blood pressure and temp just for the record anyway. As I said the IV might be (probably is) extraneous but some sort of technical hydration product is not. Coming up from NO she's be really breathing hard at those altitudes, heart hammering with...
  16. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'm guessing you can wrangle talking to a Doc or and ER nurse if you really try but I lived in the mountains of Colorado for awhile and here's some things I'd ask or consider. 1) What time of year? That could turn this from grueling to flat out awful! 2) What altitude does she live at...
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    For $200 I'd do it (but I have no idea what your financial situation is) just don't take it too seriously and again, pay more attention to what their criticism makes you think creatively about the story as you get the feedback than whether the story or a section or a line is "good" or "bad." If...
  19. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I also like the fact that they don't try to draw the line between real and unreal or mystical and worldly in the show. I like the fact that the gods play a role no matter how minor. I've seen that myself with some "non western" cultures like native Americans and native Australians. There is a...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    A lot of it depends on what you want to do with it. There are few people who can help you make it more of what you'd like it to be, few have any talent and fewer still can can detach themselves enough to be of use. My first suggestion might be to put it in a drawer for 6 months, start writing...
  21. MikeKardec

    New Blade Runner Movie NOT a remake!

    I remember reading this thread when it first started and feeling that I was afraid Bud Yorkin wouldn't make it to production. Typically these things take no less than 5 years and have only a single digit chance of actually being made even then ... no matter if they are a follow on to an iconic...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    My dad, 91 novels and over 200 short stories, rarely outlined in any coherent way and even incoherently only about half the time. Often he put "himself" (really his characters) into a situation and just let himself react to it. He generally did not like to know what was going to happen, and he...
  23. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I agree but it is a bit like Sons of Anarchy with swords. I do truly enjoy watching Katheryn Winnick snarl, however.

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