Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25626-20150324180019/@comment-21519-20150325002725

Interesting.

1. Nice that it links here.

2. I'm perplexed why HT said "escalation in Vietnam" would follow from the BA breakpoint. With Soviet bombs landing on major NATO capitals, surely the time for proxy wars has passed.

3. When I saw the name "Topanga" in the title of that story I immediately thought of Boy Meets World. Then he starts talking about some valley in Southern California that I'd never heard of. (And note, yet another use of Southern California as the default setting for contemporary fiction.) Then he says this valley has always been countercultural, and I recalled that for the first season or two Topanga was some kind of crazy hippie girl. What an interesting layer to discover in one of my childhood favorites.

4. He doesn't seem too keen on your suggestion that the screen adaptation of TMitHC will spread some love his way, TR.

5. His comment about what happened after Saddam fell doesn't jive with the alleged bias that inspired MwIH, not that we ever took that one all that seriously.

Other than that, and the very sensible reveal that bagging the divisions at Chosin is where the Korean War turns to shit, there's really nothing here I haven't seen before elsewhere. Good to know that his sense of humor and congeniality remain intact.