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  1. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    You can pretty easily track the genesis of most Steven King stories. There's a fundamental question at the core that is usually tied to his perverse sense of humor. 'Under what circumstances could a starving man survive by eating himself?' (shipwrecked heroin smuggler) 'How could I create an...
  2. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Worrying too much about structure can be deadly. William Goldman probably addressed the subject best, he said something like, "Find A structure." And that's about all I've read from him on that subject. Good advice. Don't let structure get into your head until you are sophisticated enough...
  3. MikeKardec

    Were double-breasted suits with vests once common?

    Here's one of my Dad, from his Oklahoma years; the late 1930s ...
  4. MikeKardec

    Next stop, the Twilight Zone

    I haven't had regular service TV (if there is such a thing anymore) since I was a kid. I didn't realize TZ was run on New Years, maybe we just spent our time socializing and watching the Rose Parade. But for awhile I thought there was a TZ marathon on Thanksgiving ... I have memories of...
  5. MikeKardec

    Any Fans of Golden Era Boxing?

    My father (53 when I was born) was also a boxer, in his case in the 1920s and then a trainer, second and manager, in the 1930s. He had some modest professional success in small towns across the west but did coach an Army Golden Gloves team that did very well just before he went overseas during...
  7. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I was pretty disappointed in the college teachers, professors, what have you, when I did my few teaching gigs. I expected that their level of education, mostly Phd., and their exposure to all sorts of additional education and confronting educational problems and figuring them out would have...
  8. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I like that! My father, a highly educated and successful man who never finished High School, was adamant that education at a minimum teach students to educate themselves. If it fails to do that it is useless, there is always more to learn, though it does challenge the institution to not try to...
  9. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I was nervous when I wrote that and you are right to caution us. It can be seen as political and I want to be careful (just call me out on it or delete this post if it seems inappropriate) but I find myself more interested in just the aspect of consumer relations. Is there an issue about...
  10. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I had the most narrowly focused liberal arts education imaginable, every discipline interpreted through 20th century Art, yet I still find that I use it daily and I no longer even work in the area I specialized in at school. It could even be said that I have gone through life finding jobs I...
  11. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Because of my job experience I was able to teach some College/Uni classes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I don't have a masters or Phd. However, I do have an eagle eye for spotting missing elements, especially organizational or managerial elements. I also am very involved in an...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Originally e-pubed but now successful paper book authors have already started leaking across the digital/paper divide. Kindle stud Hugh Howey (his "wool" series is/was the most reviewed book (maybe even product) on Amazon) is now publishing in paper. A couple of friends of mine have been...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    As with radio, I believe one reason for the explosion of successful writers, book stores, publishers and readers from around 1960 on had a lot to do with very average writers having easy and relatively direct access to pulp magazine editors. The pulps and to a lesser extent the hundreds of...
  15. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    I might have had that wrong, it's been forever since I've seen it. My memory had Guttman and Cairo headed out after another rumor of another bird in some other exotic part of the world.
  16. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    The other nice thing was that the only one who was even close to being stereotypical for the era was Lorre, and Peter Lorre had a way of somehow creating many stereotypes and simultaneously transcending them! Another bit that is a very cool aspect of "being on the edge of the grand adventure"...
  17. MikeKardec

    Past Lives and Einstein's Theory of Spooky Science at a Distance...

    Tell me if I'm right here, I've forgotten a lot of physics: I was originally taught that electrons circled an atomic nucleus like little planets but a later clarification (I believe) suggested that they did not "circle" so much as pop in and out of existence in the area of those orbits. I've...
  19. MikeKardec

    The "real" cool cats.

    It's also worth noting what generational psychology you are looking at. I like referring to the central reference section of Strauss and Howe's The Fourth Turning to quickly get a picture of the cultural environment a person in any ear would have grown up in. It's not quality research but it...
  20. MikeKardec

    The "real" cool cats.

    It might be worth visiting this thread - http://thefedoralounge.com/threads/the-origin-of-the-fifties.76303/ There's some good discussion of how the romantic vision of the 1950s was created and a lot of great contributions from Lounge members. The hot rod thing emerged from just a few towns...
  21. MikeKardec

    Past Lives and Einstein's Theory of Spooky Science at a Distance...

    I've always wondered if we don't exist in an overlapping series of universes. The multiverse is a common theme in Sci Fi where it is often dealt with as a series of separate "parallel universes." I've often wondered if it isn't somewhat different. Perhaps everything that is possible exists at...
  22. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    If you had the choice to either "see the whole story" or to just see the film you don't suffer much narratively with these pictures, which is pretty cool. It did, however, make a lot of films seem claustrophobic when compared to movies that went out into the world like The Lady From Shanghai or...
  23. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    I've always been impressed with the fact they slipped 3 homosexual characters and a woman who is distinctly "loose" past the Hays office (or whoever was running it at the time). I'm not sure if I've seen another picture of the era that packed that many "questionable" elements into one film ...

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