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  1. MikeKardec

    The Greatest Show on Earth ...

    ... travels by rail one last time. These were taken in Portland during the final train show for Ringling Bros. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of the train itself!
  2. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Good or Bad you'll soon have enough for your own Kindle collection. That's good news! The great thing today is that no one can stop you. Certain genres, SF/Horror being one, are easier to promote electronically. The easiest seems to be Romance with some electronic authors of prodigious...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I always like to think that every good story is both a mystery and a love story ... on top of whatever else it's about. I absolutely loved Valdez is Coming, such a fusion of substance and style. Valdez is just a guy in late middle age for whom a bowl of soup is the highlight of his day, he's...
  4. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Yeesh! There's been WAY too much business correspondence in my life this year. I'm looking forward to getting back to just doing my work and eventually to more creative projects. It's been good to get back at it even though my late summer getaway/business trip was fun. Most of the essays I'm...
  5. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Yes, you are totally right. But I was attempting to comment on the culture's development morally rather than economically. Elements in the run up to WWII, and accelerating during the war eventually led to the Civil Rights era and the giving up of colonies among other things. That last bit...
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Finally back home. Sheesh, what a trip. Germany, England, Switzerland, Italy; all for fun. Then NYC for work then Colorado to pick up my truck and drive home to LA ... BUT ... all the stuff I left in the garage in CO got covered in mouse piss ... which carries Hantavirus (also known as Ebola...
  8. MikeKardec

    The Short Story

    Yeah. The Post and Colliers both. Top notch stuff. Colliers started to trend a bit too literary for me as the 1950s came on but they were the primo market and with everyone from the dying pulp mags crying for space they had a slush pile thirty feet deep to choose from. Sometimes they would...
  9. MikeKardec

    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    I've always found old Hem to be a bit much, his advice to writers to have been perfected beyond his abilities by some of his contemporaries and by those who came along later (and developed their talent by taking said advice) ... it's actually kind of amazing how most of the portrayals of...
  10. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    Actually, your post really moved me. I had a Jewish grandparent, a tough young guy who found some way to get an education in Eastern Europe and then made good in the oil fields of OK and TX. At the end of his life (1942) he was a wealthy Southern California land developer and there was no...
  11. MikeKardec

    Picture of MGM Stars in 1943

    No doubt all trying to pretend the others weren't there ... I'll bet you're right. I imagine much to the irritation of every director on the lot some junior executive ran around and borrowed all the talent for this photo ... whether they were in the middle of a scene or not. "Don't worry...
  13. MikeKardec

    "The Man in the High Castle"- reel vs. real

    It's been 9 months since I saw it but I remember some beautifully suggestive lines that intimated that the USA might have gone through something that allowed us to somehow "justify" the loss. Obviously there were some pro Nazi American groups in reality and there may have been more or ones that...
  14. MikeKardec

    Show us your vehicles

    A few more of mine ... these are from a few years ago. 1966 289 Mustang. Around 300hp out of a solid lifter motor built roughly to Shelby GT 350 specs. Dropped front end and suspension a la Shelby. Custom made sub frame connectors (they didn't exist as a pre-made item back then) and...
  15. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    Land locked Switzerland has a number of steamers in regular passenger service. Here's a very San Pablo-like vessel I recently shot on Lake Lucerne ... The Swiss countryside seems sparsely populated but there still seemed to be plenty of non-tourist passengers taking these boats to work...
  16. MikeKardec

    Red Wing Iron Ranger boots

    I agree with people's comments on the sizing issue but I find them very comfortable after being broken in. For fine tuning (these and other boots) I bought a shoe stretcher which is a bit like a shoe tree that can be expanded with a threaded handle. With the Red Wings I just slathered them...
  17. MikeKardec

    Filson coats - anyone?

    That's also why I bought Filson and would again as long as I stick with their wool coats. I have a friend who has a Filson duffle and it makes anything packed inside it smell. Beautifully built, just smelly. I'd love to find a way to take the smell out of my canvas jacket, I haven't worn it...
  19. MikeKardec

    Filson coats - anyone?

    It looks pretty good for moderate wetness ... short walks in a downpour or longer is light rain. I have a wool Double mack cruiser, the lighter oiled (shelter?) cloth cruiser (that's the smelly one) and a tin oiled duster. Tin is very stiff and heavy, and it's not really warmer because none of...
  20. MikeKardec

    What if FDR had lived?

    Based on a lot of the good information here it seems that the, "What if X had lived?" question is more interesting in the case of JFK rather than FDR. FDR had pretty much run his course (politically, health-wise, and too many terms as president) by the time of his death. JFK was just getting...
  21. MikeKardec

    What if FDR had lived?

    I know but I did follow up when I should have been thinking a bit more ... ya know? We're all good. This is a great space and everyone's very polite. I just want to live up to the general good conduct!
  22. MikeKardec

    What if FDR had lived?

    Mmm. Yes. Thank you. Mine just slipped out without thinking of it's content.
  23. MikeKardec

    What if FDR had lived?

    Lord save us. No, wait, the Lord didn't save us. I'm glad I never faced that nightmare until the '90s. Well, it's the law of the land now.

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