Scott A. MacKenzie
@5thborderstate.bsky.social
Canadian historian of the American Civil War, author of The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia 1829-1872 (WVU Press, 2023), remover of mattress tags. Big #hatm fan.
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I’ll see what I can do #hatm
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Yes I'm afraid so. Please be prepared for my absence. Don't all of you cheer :) #hatm
I’m amazed that they depicted an archive! #hatm
Uhh, I don't have access to PBS. I may not be able to participate - as much as I'd love to. #hatm
Final Thoughts: House of Dynamite depicts the last 20 minutes before a nuclear war. Three sets of U.S. decision makers grapple with how to deal with an imminent attack. The tension never wanes in this well-cast movie. Yet it seems out of place today - it is better suited to the 1980s #hatm
I sort of like how there's no conclusion to the movie: no resolution means the tension never flags. #hatm
If this facility is being filled up, the s just got real. #hatm
We can find out later. #hatm
Here's the thing, Mr. President: We literally don't have a minute. #hatm
Is it important? #hatm
Well, SECDEF's daughter is in Chicago, so he might as well go out this way. #hatm
#hatm should do his Nelson Mandela film.
Surely the President spent his transition period being briefed on this situation. Moreover, these football officers are also trained to deal with politicians. #hatm
He's so talented - he can do Marvel and Fast and the Furious as well as Shakespeare. #hatm
Imagine being the U.S. military planners who have to come up with options for the President - all of which involve the deaths of millions and altering the history of the world. No pressure. #hatm
Ah the Lincoln bust. there's a line in the movie 2010: "The President addressed a joint session of Congress [about Central American tensions]. He invoked Lincoln. Whenever someone's going to get us into trouble, they always quote Lincoln." #hatm
Its a similar cue from All Quiet on the Western Front. Same composer on both movies. #hatm
I have had to call a family member about an emergency once - when I rushed to the hospital to have my appendix out.
Now I see what President Bush had to go through on 9/11. Trying to make sense out of a chaotic situation about which he could do little. #hatm
Now I see what President Bush had to go through on 9/11. Trying to make sense out of a chaotic situation about which he could do little. #hatm
She said it was the second most important moment of her life, after the birth of her daughter. #hatm
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I listened to a podcast this week about the making of Alien: Resurrection. The crew prepared for a long day of 200 takes of Sigourney Weaver missing a basketball shot. She got it on the first. Everyone was shocked, especially Ron Pearlman. #hatm
We last heard this song, in a very truncated form, at the end of Miami Vice. #hatm
I'd listen to it. #hatm
I'd watch Idris Elba in anything. What he should make is a play based on Nelson Mandela's phone conversations with Queen Elizabeth (played by Helen Mirren, his Hobbes and Shaw co-star.). In real life, NM and QE spoke for hours. She helped him end Apartheid peacefully. #hatm
I once saw President Clinton's motorcade drive by me in Washington. #hatm
If only #hatm could do Chernobyl - that was a great job. Jared Harris was great in it, as was Stellan Skarsgard.
Yes, there's always a military officer with the "nuclear football" near the President at all times just in case of this kind of event. Imagine having that job. #hatm
This film shot in DC, Kenya, and Gettysburg. Pretty good budget for a Netflix film. #hatm
There are no pictures of the interior of a B-2 - very classified - but there's a toilet and a microwave behind the seats. Some crew have brought a camp bed. I once heard there was a husband and wife crew. Imagine all the stereotypes flying around that cockpit. #hatm
How should one react with a nuclear war looming? I think the military people have been conditioned to contain their emotions. The politicians, on the other hand, aren't. #hatm