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  1. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    I like your description of Wayne. Having dealt with a great deal of western history, my general take is that the reality of it all was that the first guy who decided the altercation had elevated to "shooting status" was nearly always the "fastest." Some, like Billy the Kid were just impossibly...
  2. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    It sounds crazy but I heard the same thing. Given that he was pretty amazing at the stuff I saw him do and that sort of thing was what he did, I mean he was an actor and stuntman but he specialized in gun, knife, whip sort of stuff, I'm not surprised. He spent his whole life teaching himself...
  3. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    Yeah, I too have been shot by blanks. Burning powder and wadding under the skin, not fun. It's best to not aim directly at the other actor. Safer with an auto, not all that much crud can fit through a 2mm hole. Occasionally, live ammo was used for something special. As a kid I knew a guy...
  4. MikeKardec

    Unapologetically blowing my own horn ...

    Our latest audio production on the Year's Best List at Audiofile ... If that's too crass, I apologize, but I'm proud of it and all the people who worked on it. A better group has rarely been assembled!
  5. MikeKardec

    The Maltese Falcon

    I think the automatic revolver was a .45 or .455 but good foreign reference was not that available in Hammett's day ... I'm not sure that "Small Arms of the World" was published at the time he wrote the novel. Stembridge Gun Rental was a company partly owned by C.B. DeMill in the early days so...
  7. MikeKardec

    Deutschland 83

    I'd love to hear more of what people who were there at the time (living not visiting like I was) think of it. Obviously, it's entertainment but it did seem to catch the look and feel i remember.
  8. MikeKardec

    the-horten-229-v3-flying-wing

    A vision of another future ... not one I'd rather have, mind you, but it sure looks cool! I'm fascinated by some of those controls ... they look quite used. Was that a shot from another film? Or did they somehow beat the crap out of them before they scrapped them?
  9. MikeKardec

    the-horten-229-v3-flying-wing

    I always wondered if it was politics or that "we don't want to go there" not getting into a flying wing war with Russia thing. It's completely weird that we built a bunch of them but then killed the program and trashed the planes. I'd be the last person to say I know what happened but, well...
  10. MikeKardec

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    The low thing was useful handling-wise but really few of the American cars of the '50 even tried to take advantage of it. I totally agree about far too many cars being too low, I'm fairly sure it's why so many people bought SUVs over the years ... to the point where now their "utility" is...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    More thoughts: Telling a writer where a problem seems to be, is valid. Telling them what the problem is (providing you have carefully considered it) can be useful. Telling them how to fix it is often like a director giving an actor a line reading in hopes of improving a performance ... you...
  13. MikeKardec

    the-horten-229-v3-flying-wing

    If memory serves the Horten Bros were top glider designers before the war and tested their designs in real world conditions, tying strips of cloth in many places along the wings and then shooting motion picture film of their movement in flight from a chase plane to improve the air flow patterns...
  14. MikeKardec

    Deutschland 83

    I have been planning on seeing Gen War for some time ... I'll need to get on it! I was in Berlin about this time last year and it was really a wonderful city. Very relaxed, and that was not a term you'd have used to describe the Germans I met on my first trip to Germany in '89. It was odd...
  15. MikeKardec

    Deutschland 83

    Another very good series though I don't know where it is airing ... I found it on iTunes. A young, East German officer is sent west to impersonate a West German he vaguely resembles who is about to become the attache to a West German associated with the implementation of the Pershing II missile...
  16. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Good advice is hard to get! I've found a sort of short cut, however. Just get people who have read your work to tell you the story. Don't prompt or argue with them about it. Just shut up and listen ... and it can be hard! Tell them they can't mention if they liked some part or not, you...
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    There's always a period of noodling with it after the major rewrites ... I don't seem to be doing much but it seems to be getting much better. I've never figured out if my little changes are really improving things that much or if I'm just getting used to it. I worry that my judgement of the...
  19. MikeKardec

    The British Fairbairn and Sykes fighting knife

    I don't know if it's true in this case but many times reproductions are better (if you are looking for good not historic), and knives are often priced in a ridiculous manner. There's nothing that special about the SF, it's an ancient blade pattern. Good steel (it seems to me in my current...
  20. MikeKardec

    The British Fairbairn and Sykes fighting knife

    Could be, but not in the case of this knife ... I was aware of Dad having it before the Carter administration. At a fairly educated guess, he picked it up in France near the end of WWII. He said he'd had the earlier, better, version which he picked up in England prior to the invasion. Then...
  21. MikeKardec

    The British Fairbairn and Sykes fighting knife

    What's the "Jimmy Carter" part mean???
  22. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    When a TV production/distribution outlet, like Amazon Prime has become, has a show that gets good press they tend to keep at it just for the prestige even if the money isn't all that good ... it draws attention to their brand. Mad Men was very effective at that for AMC. I suspect Amazon will...
  23. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Sure you do because it's the world you live in ... the script. If that's not good you don't stand a chance. The tough part is the sort of thing I was describing when the script has to change to deal with production issues. That's the great art of compromise. The horrible part is when the...

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