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  1. Lots of people, lots of street life, a fair bit of crime, hustle and bustle. At least, for the...

    Lots of people, lots of street life, a fair bit of crime, hustle and bustle. At least, for the central Canadian city I live in. Someplace like Houston or LA would have a different vibe.
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  2. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I quite like that they included Bass Reeves as one of the famous Texans. It is a great nod by Disney of representing the black experience in the West. Not to mention Reeves' story is a sort of over the top "Shaft in the Old West" narrative that really should have its own movie made.

  3. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I cannot get the image of Henson and Ermey on the same stage together. It's such a bizarre combination.

  4. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    As a Montrealer, I would wish T.O. all the best with hosting the Olympics. We only finished paying off the Big Owe in 2006, thirty years after the circus left town. Is there a possibility for Disney to get an HSR similar to--although with less...

  5. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Not even the mighty quantum butterfly can erase the sublime juggernaut of awesome that is Goodf--er, Wiseguys.

  6. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    There's a certain "clips show" retrospective feel to this post that brings back all the warm fuzzies of following this timeline from beginning to the current point.

  7. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Jim Henson didn't just create a Balkan Butterfly. He summoned Mothra!

  8. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I could certainly see Guards! Guards! working as a film. In fact, I could see it as a Henson/Muppets joint: live actors playing the human characters with muppet swamp dragons based off that dragon walk-around puppet that already exists.

  9. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    It's odd to think of Mort with musical numbers...but the description of the film makes this die-hard Pratchett fan really wish he could see through the veil between worlds to catch a glimpse of it.

  10. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Maus is an especially difficult work to portray in animation because the main "voice of memory"--Vladek Spiegelman--is such a cantankerous and shifty character that he comes across as an almost anti-Semitic stereotype. While much of it came from his Holocaust experiences, it is made quite clear...

  11. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I PM'ed Geekis earlier about my appreciation for this thread. But after finally blasting through the last of the entries--sadly, skipping the commentary due to time constraints--I am finally free to say how much I've enjoyed this TL. I think my favorite bit was Ivan Boesky forcing Frank Oz to...

  12. Use the search on the upper right hand side just beneath "Alerts". Type "Spark of Ice and Fire".

    Use the search on the upper right hand side just beneath "Alerts". Type "Spark of Ice and Fire".

  13. Graf Spee sunk by French

    The only way the flight commander`s actions would have been more awesome is if he`d tossed an empty wine bottle at his target when he flashed by.

  14. Titanic doesn't hit the iceberg. What causes the safety regulations to improve?

    The Empress of Ireland wouldn't have had the same impact as the Titanic even if the latter hadn't sunk as OTL. The Titanic's impact on the popular imagination wasn't merely the sinking. It was the context: the sinking of a huge and technically-advanced liner on its maiden voyage, carrying the...

  15. AHC: Avoid the Civil War

    The only way to avoid a civil war would be to have invisible fairies constantly smacking the Founders with cluebats at the signing of the Constitution while chanting "slavery is bad, slavery is bad!" The South was trapped by its own paradigm. It was terrified of another Santo Domingo...

  16. AHC: More Underground Railways in the UK?

    Pretty much how most subway systems work--tunnels beneath the downtown, then open cut or elevated once you head out of the city center. The exceptions are the rubber-tired metros in cities like Montreal, which can't handle heavy snow or rain. My own public-transit ATL is widespread...
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