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  1. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    ... or what are you trying to avoid writing? I'm trying to not avoid writing the introduction to a book ... but instead I'm here writing this. Can you tell it's got me a bit punchy? I'm about 15 partial tries into a piece that, once it's done will free me up considerably. And it will be done...
  2. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    It seems we are at the end of a run. What follows is my opinion only (as if it could be anything else!). This film: Nice pieces but they don't fit together all that well. On the up side, many threads from the beginning of the Craig Bonds are looped through this story in order to tie it up...
  3. MikeKardec

    Long Beach, CA Dance Venues?

    For the piece I'm writing/restoring (an old novel of my Dad's) I need the names of a couple of Long Beach, CA dance halls. I'm currently using the Cinderella Ballroom and The Majestic and hoping that they were both in operation under those names in 1939. Anyone have any idea about this...
  4. MikeKardec

    The Exiles ...

    This is a film made at USC in the late 1950s that "documents" (in quotes because I believe the shots and scenes were set up but intending to record moments like real life) the lives of American Indians living in Los Angeles. Some SPECTACULAR night photography out on the streets of old LA. The...
  5. MikeKardec

    New Audio Drama Release Date and Website ...

    The Diamond of Jeru will be out May 12th on CD and MP3. Our website - http://www.thediamondofjeruaudio.com/ - has lots of information, history, sample clips, photos, videos, and very high quality (320k) MP3s (also available May 12th). Deep within the jungles of Borneo flows a legendary river...
  7. MikeKardec

    New Audio Drama Cover Finished ...

    A fantastic job by Craig Mullins. The first time I've worked with an artist who does all his work in the computer. A clip of the first couple of minutes ... http://www.thediamondofjeruaudio.com/Downloads/ShortClips/TDOJ-CD1-Scene01-02.mp3 After many adventures we delivered the master on...
  8. MikeKardec

    Wilbur Smith

    I assume that a number of Loungers have read this South African author. He deals with the era we are all interested in in significant detail ... sort of the James Mitchner of Southern Africa, though perhaps a bit more fun to read. The work can occasionally be a bit dated, the sort of style...
  9. MikeKardec

    Power Wagon Porn ...

    http://www.legacypowerwagon.com/Photo-Gallery_ep_42.html Okay. I used to work in the custom car biz. I'm used to hearing that a complete resto costs above $100k, that just the time and materials it takes to do a ground up job ... I get it. These prices are nuts but the P-Wagons sure are...
  10. MikeKardec

    I wish I had the $$$!!!

    Perfect patina ... http://carbuffs.com/inventory/1933-plymouth-pd-coupe/ Oh, for a bigger garage and a few more dollars!
  11. MikeKardec

    Riding the Rails

    Holding her Down. A great description by Jack London of riding the rails across Canada -- http://carl-bell.baylor.edu/JL/HoldingHerDown.html It's a method of transportation that was much more "active" than you normally see in the movies.
  13. MikeKardec

    Behind the scenes ...

    A giant in the book business passed a few months ago, the man who saved paperbacks from certain suicide ... http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/article_free.asp?pid=remembering_oscar_dystel_champion_of_paperback_publishing Bantam Books Editorial Director Marc Jaffe and CEO Oscar Dystel
  14. MikeKardec

    Some interesting books

    Here's some stuff I've been reading lately that might interest some of you ... The Singapore Grip - J G Farrell. An amusing, somewhat goofy but AMAZINGLY researched novel about the year leading up to the fall of Singapore. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace - Talbot Mundy. Middle Eastern...
  15. MikeKardec

    Audio History

    I figured I'd share this because I'm getting ready to sell it ... It is a 1942 Lansing "Iconic" Two-Way Field Coil Speaker system. The Iconic was the first, successful two-way speaker a ground breaking product in its day. It was widely accepted as the finest speaker available. It was...
  16. MikeKardec

    New Radio Drama

    Here's a couple of scenes from the show I'm hoping to complete this year. This is a tentative mix and we are still waiting for the music to be written. The title is The Diamond of Jeru and the story takes place in Sarawak in 1955. Sarawak was/is on the north coast of Borneo and at the time...
  17. MikeKardec

    Urban Alienation

    There is a strange genre in fiction and art and maybe other areas, which I have never known the name of, or even if it has a name. My take on it is vague but I find it very intriguing. Think classic Edward Hopper or George Tooker (do a google search if you don't know him!). Much of the...
  19. MikeKardec

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    I am editing a book that contains a lot of 1950s fiction and I'm constantly running up against an aspect of the popular culture of that era that has intrigued me for many years. It seems to me that there was a fundamental shift in men's and women's perception of themselves and each other around...
  20. MikeKardec

    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    I'm working on a project where I need to figure the cost of second and "third tourist" class (the old steerage) travel from San Francisco to Singapore (though anywhere in Asia would do). While there is lots of information on Europe to USA in the period before the Depression, I have yet to have...
  21. MikeKardec

    Adventure is My Business

    This probably belongs in the reading room but it is so specific to the outdoors that I'm posting here. I've just been rereading my collection of Russell Annabel books about the old days in Alaska. The collections, which you can find on Amazon, are made up from old magazine essays like...
  22. MikeKardec

    Definition or Description of Noir

    I was discussing an upcoming comic book project on another website and, though the project is a western I described it as Noir. Someone wrote in and asked what Noir really was, feeling that it somehow equated with gangsters, so I wrote the following reply -- "It's sort of a general idea...
  23. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    Any one aware of the work of Howard Pease? He wrote a great many stories about the merchant marine in the 1930s. Quite a few of his books were a bit like a slightly more sophisticated "Hardy Boys at Sea" though he did get into some heavier themes in the early days of WWII. Regardless of some...

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