Since I taught Salt of the Earth,I’ve seen the film over a dozen times. I still cry at the end; it’s so poignant. And I cry softly at other moving films like the Life and Time of Rosie the Riveter,The Women of Summer,The Grapes of Wrath,etc.

When I related the above to the fairest,most political and principled dept.chair I’ve ever had,she replied,”I cry at documentary movies,my mother cries at weddings.”

Re: Harry Hay. I enjoyed seeing the documentary about his life made ca.2002,and he remained radical and non-assimilationist to the end.

The Radical Faeries have an annual summer retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat Center. One of the BB worker owners invited first invited them, enjoying the gatherings until his death a few years ago.

(… resisting that Latin editorial proofreading directive, ‘STET’ …)

Quoting Roeder’s interview for Fox News: “I haven’t been convicted of anything and I am being treated as a criminal,” he said in a telephone conversation that lasted about three minutes.

Well, that fits the definition of chutzpah. And menadacity, on the part of Fox News. They’re all rah-rah in support of that thug Sheriff Joe Arpaio to put unconvicted prisoners awaiting trial in pink jumpsuits and tents in the Arizona desert sun, and feed them rotten green balogna, but this guy’s comments get reported as if he’s a sainted martyr. Oh wait, according the Fox News, he *is* a sainted martyr.

A pox on their broadcast signal.

(…flies off on her broom in search of eye of newt to dump in the bubbling cauldron…)

Thanks, Feminista, for the info about Will Geer. Yep I was one of those in the lefty/dyke circles of the 70s who watched Salt Of The Earth several times, but I didn’t make the Will Geer connection. And Harry Hay, what a trip. I wish we had phalanxes of radical faeries at the front of every public action these days. Followed by woman-loving overalls-wearing dykes who sing children’s songs and won’t settle for less than utter revolution.

Now on to the thread above, as this one sinks slowly into memory…

I’ll race you at the drag strip with my souped up O-Cedar.

(… lends new meaning to the term, “Eat my dust” …)

You can also read the show transcripts online at msnbc.com, which is what I do because streaming media (among other things) are blocked by the IT dweebs at my job.

Maggie, yer last post makes me hope that your mauvais malaise of the stomach is abating — and the fire is returning to your cheeks!