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  1. MikeKardec

    Mallory's Everest jacket: gussets out there today?

    I have no solid opinion about the qualities of modern or vintage gear, I often wear a mixture of wool and synthetics depending on conditions. However, having spent a fair amount of time living at fairly high altitudes (9000 ft), I will say that many places in the high mountains are...
  2. MikeKardec

    Iron Sky and the real question about Nazi experimentation with flying discs...

    There are some true stories about U Boats fleeing to Argentina but some of the documentation is sketchy. The best 'all in one lump' account is Heinz Schaeffer's U-Boat 977. He claims to have been defecting but the war ended before he got there. Another U-Boat had already arrived and this...
  3. MikeKardec

    James Bond: Skyfall

    My opinion only -- but Bond (at least so far ... this film almost didn't get made) is the most successful reboot ever. Working in the publishing business I've had to watch as the Sci Fi genre tanked and Westerns went down the drain. Both of those failures were from changing culture but also...
  4. MikeKardec

    Browning BAR Mark II Rifle

    The BAR has a hinged magazine that hinges forward. It could probably have been expanded to tolerate 8 rds but that might be the limit. Unlike a number of auto loaders you never have to worry about losing the magazine but you have to hand feed it. There's a lot of things I sort of like about...
  5. MikeKardec

    Browning BAR Mark II Rifle

    Schmidt and Bender is sort of a deal when it comes to top Euro glass. Personally, and this comes from I guy who's had it all, I like fixed focal lengths 4x or 6x. I always used to hate it when people told me "you don't need more" ... but you don't need more. Many companies like Leupold or...
  7. MikeKardec

    Vintage SCUBA Diving anyone?

    At daylight we leave the Calypso and go down. The water in this area is very wet and a perfect place for ... fish. One of the few lines I (sort of) remember from 1970s SNL. A few years ago I had the opportunity to go down (barely) in a helmet and dress ... the old fashioned diving helmet...
  8. MikeKardec

    Golden Era Culture or Cultures?

    When I look at the issue the first thing I note is that WWII altered the sense of what a 'decade" in popular culture was. WWI and it's aftermath ushered in the 1920s nearly on the money. The Crash heralded the depression and the era of fascism Europe and rising militarism in Asia. And even...
  9. MikeKardec

    The Pulps! ACTION! ADVENTURE! AMAZING THRILLS! Only 10 cents.

    The Doc Savage stories were fantastic but certainly on the bleeding edge of what was acceptable in 'realistic' pulp adventure. Often pretty far out but more in the realm of reasonable sci fi than comic book silliness. Finding that line is something many who have attempted to imitate the pulp...
  10. MikeKardec

    AMUSU Theatre and Movie Poster Museum, Manildra, Australia

    What a great place. I grew up surrounded by movie equipment and still have a real soft spot for it. I love the smell of it, old film I mean, and I've wanted to get myself an upright Moviola for no good reason but nostalgia. I was lucky enough to see a couple of movies at Sun Picures when I...
  11. MikeKardec

    Remember these cash/receipt tubes in stores?

    The car dealership I patronize in Van Nuys, not an old building at all, uses a Pnu System to send mechanics orders to the cashier. It's not very romantic looking, no brass or stainless steel, but I was surprised they didn't do it electronically.
  13. MikeKardec

    The Pulps! ACTION! ADVENTURE! AMAZING THRILLS! Only 10 cents.

    Gosh ... well first of all, while working on a publishing project this morning I actually bothered to dig out Dad's financial records for 1947. Those numbers I quoted, $150 to $600 were way too high. $30 to $80 was more typical pulp fare for a short story. Argosy and Saga (not pulps) paid in...
  14. MikeKardec

    The Pulps! ACTION! ADVENTURE! AMAZING THRILLS! Only 10 cents.

    I also was addicted to Doc Savage and Edgar Rice Burroughs when I was a kid. I read 60 or 70 of the Savages and Tarzan and John Carter and all kinds of stuff. I didn't really realize it or appreciate it at the time but my Dad had written for the pulps (Thrilling Adventures) so I also had a...
  15. MikeKardec

    Vintage or Modern Radio Drama Recommendations?

    As a producer/director/writer/whatever of a bunch of audio dramas I've always enjoyed The Mist, a binaural production of the Steven King short story. Back when I was starting out that was the show to compare yourself to.
  16. MikeKardec

    Quality Headphones - Discussion encouraged

    Sennheiser, AKG, Beyerdynamic are all good. Grados, especially the older models, have a retro look like some of those above and they are pretty damn good phones though maybe not as good as the best Sennheisers or Beyers. The Grado foam surrounds die pretty quickly but places like Audio Adviser...
  17. MikeKardec

    Film/television speech patterns from the 1920s to 1960s

    We can probably thank Brando. Though his "natural style" looks quite affected today or even beside the best of someone like Robert Mitchum.
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    Rioting Across America - The Great Depression (video)

    I can remember stories of my grandfather and a couple of other solid citizens joining the 3 policemen of their little North Dakota town at the train station in the middle of the night. A group 200 that was assumed to be part of the International Workers of the World had hijacked a train and was...
  20. MikeKardec

    Film/television speech patterns from the 1920s to 1960s

    Growing up around old Hollywood it seems to me that many posters have got this right. Elocution coaches (and classes in school ... my aunt taught elocution in high schools), the theater training of the day some of which was stylized some practical ... they had to be heard clearly in the back...
  21. MikeKardec

    Radio Drama

    I'm pretty new here too but Welcome ... When I worked in NYC we did a fair number of shows with a sound effects guy actually in the studio with the actors. He had a table of props, a wall of doors, and was actually using coconuts for horse hooves ... stuff like that. It was fun but there were...
  22. MikeKardec

    favorite cars of the golden era

    All through the 70s,80s,90s even to a slight extent the 00s, the greats of the 50s and 60s could be competitive, performance-wise with new cars ... you might even include a 30s or 40s hotrod or two. These days? Forget about it. With the most boring V6 in the new Ford Mustang is putting out...
  23. MikeKardec

    Where did your user name come from??

    I wrote a short story (sort of ghost rewrote a short story, actually), then produced a cable film, then directed an audio drama where the hero was Mike Kardec ... sheesh, it was like the story that wouldn't die. It takes place in the 1950s so it seemed appropriate here.

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