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Feb 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So for the weekend recap, some recent posts over at my blog:

thaoworra.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/bla…
The Ravens FAC scholarship is still open until February 28th for children of Hmong and Lao veterans of the Secret War

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A look at the failed history of Operation Lam Son 719, when S. Vietnam and the US invaded Laos in an attempt to stop use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
thaoworra.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/rem…
A quick note on one of the only Lao typewriters left in the US that a Hmong refugee brought with him after the end of the Secret War for Laos in 1973/75.

thaoworra.wordpress.com/2022/02/12/oly…

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Feb 13
#BobaFett was NEVER Space Punisher. He was the best of a Space Apple Dumpling Gang who lucked out shipping an ice cube who STILL managed to dump him in the Sarlacc on a space backwater. The Empire HATED Space Rasputin's disintegration-prone flunky contractor "scum." WATCH AGAIN
The Empire just overran Hoth but remember how many AT-ATs, AT-STs & Star Destroyers got taken out doing it, which probably made GREAT reporting to Palpatine who wants Vader to update him. Yeah, it's NOT great but the Empire was short handed in the zone. Enter the bounty hunters.
WHO SHOWED UP?

2 trigger-happy droids, 2 aliens (one apparently a clairvoyant, so Space Miss Cleo?!) a dude fresh from a swoop bike accident, & Boba. That's NOT a lot of people answering the call to hunt a piece of junk w. a princess leading a galactic rebellion.

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Feb 12
Going to do some shoutouts to some of the Black speculative poets on Twitter you can follow! #SFFPoetry has expanded greatly over the decades thanks to the verse they've shared. If you have others I should also be taking a look at, please let me know and I'll be happy to add them
Of course, I'll start with @nytebird45, an @sfpoetry Grand Master who also holds a lifetime achievement award from @HorrorWriters cith.org/linda/
I've been very impressed over the years with the work of @therisingtithes who is always very generous with his time and support of other poets and students
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Feb 11
I sometimes wonder about what it means for Lao and Hmong American writers to aspire to prominent US writing programs given the relationship of the CIA to the Secret War in Laos that pushed us into diaspora.

openculture.com/2018/12/cia-he…
An earlier article on the subject, but I find it noticeable that we don't really see to many of us trying to find a way to evaluate and critique the issue this creates for us, and the prose and poetry many were herded towards. vice.com/en/article/4x3…
The question of course would also apply to Hollywood approaches to covering the Secret War in film someday.

theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
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Feb 11
I've an appreciation to Asian American creator Larry Hama whose G.I. Joe character Stalker was one of the first strong, multi-dimensional Black characters I'd read in the comics in my early years in the 1980s. But it's also a reason the 2021 Snake Eyes movie disappointed me.
Hama explored friendship,leadership, and accountability, and forgiveness especially in a combat zone which was a lot more than he technically needed to do with a comic-book tie-in to a 1980s toyline.
So, it may sound odd, but it always ticks me off a little to see figures of a founding member of G.I. Joe left behind on the shelves 40 years later, compared to the others, especially up in Duluth, for historical reasons I won't go into here.
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Feb 9
LOL prepping for @gregoryawilson presentation to his students tomorrow on writing as an #SFFPoet from the SEA Diaspora & his poor students are going to run into so many tangents on my twitter this week. SORRY, KIDS. But for sure, start here at least:
@gregoryawilson The @SahtuPress study guide is really an initial consolidated start for students doing full research projects on my work. I find it a bit #TLDR but it is useful: sahtu.press/articles/2022-…
The Wikipedia entry on my work is mostly up to date:

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Feb 8
51 years ago today, S. Vietnam invaded Laos to try & stop N. Vietnam on the Ho Chi Minh Trail near Savannakhet. Operation Lam Son 719 was an ABSOLUTE DISASTER. Most Lao Americans would be be surprised to know how Laos made the cover of Life Magazine in 1971.
The 1980 boardgame Body Count In Laos is one of the first Vietnam War games set in Laos but it's out of print. 2015's One Shot Away by High Flying Dice is the easiest to find that fills this niche, but it's definitely for grognards
The Filipino-designed 2020 freeware game Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations DOES have a scenario to play out Lam Som 719. Donations benefit Cambodian land mine removal. Bear in mind, It's ultimately a mod of C&C Tiberian Sun. but an interesting approach.

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