Song of the South now starting

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1 hour until showtime

I haven’t watched the movie through in decades, so while I do remember the cartoon rabbit about to thrown in the pot and made into dinner, I don’t remember the bees… but, but they’re cartoon bees. Edit: or was that one of the human bits? I rmeember the bull chase, but not bees. Should I mention the cartoon bindings? As I recall, Br’er Rabbit wasn’t bothered by the predicament, but maybe a viewer would worry for him when he did not? Maybe I’m misremembering.

Any pointers you can give would be appreciated. I’m just copying ‘dog dies’ and imdb, and adding any bits I can remember.

Slightly early today: 4:30pm EST/9:30pm UTC, Native Son (1951) & Song of the South (1946)

I know it is rare for anyone to read the comments here, but I gotta say: I LOVE A Patch of Blue despite its delicate handling of race relations – that Poitier must be perfect and giving; getting nothing much in return for helping over and over again, and that Elizabeth Hartman has to be the most lower class and minimized version of a White American to be able to accept that her benefactor is the ‘wrong’ color.

A pre-show short will begin in a few minutes, and the main event in ½ hour.

At 4:35pm EST/9:30pm UTC we’ll have a scratchy old 1968 anti-drug use scare film (no subs) “FROM RUNAWAY TO HIPPIE” – this short demonstrates the anti-drug scare that would later have stoners laughing hysterically at “Taking Off”, particularly the scene where:

Modern viewers might better understand why some considered the movie biting satire by trying to replicate the mindset of a counter-culture kid of that generation, hence the short.

Update: I’d forgotten the DVD for “Celebration at Big Sur” has no subtitles and I could find none online. I’ve updated the post to include a youtube link at lower resolution with auto-generated subs (my copy isn’t great either since it is a DVD source, but is still twice as clean).

If you play the youtube promptly at 5pm EST, you can still watch “Taking Off” which DOES have subs and will start around 6:25 EST / 11:25 UTC.

about 13 hours until showtime

Social workers: underpaid, overworked, too many cases to handle, and every week there’s a new case to handle or an old one to revisit. There are different categories of Social Workers, but it’d be nice to cover a mix, so you dealt with elderly people with trouvle getting out, child adbuse/neglect, homelessness, and so on. If it was limited to one offiice, I’d pick mental health workers.

Abbot Elementary started strong but slid downwards.

Parents sue the school district and try to get you fired for not protecting their child. Heaven forbid Johnny come home with a stuffy nose! It could be bronchitis! Or covid! Or cancer!

I knew a teacher who was threatened with that because she looked at a child who had lied to her while talking about a short story they were about to read where a character lies. Parents said the teacher was purposefully and publically shaming their kid – but no one knew about the lie and the story was on the course plan far in advance, but everyone had to get lawyers and fight it.

While this is true of new editors and single-subject editors, and especially true for divisive issues, it can be done. Once you’ve built up a few years of good writing and good edits, you can have some success at the hot button topics – but be prepared to defend your position and reasons on the talk pages. Note it really does take YEARS to get have sway. The power users have so many trolls to swat down all the time that they don’t check every random edit from random new people.

CTRL+F pryor

Came here to say that. It was the first time I heard the word (1976) and it was old then. Here’s the clip. "Ofay is near 1:06. Content warning! N-word (yes, they said the n-word on live TV). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

Man’s Castle is over and we’re getting ready for Wild Zero with Guitar Wold and zombies!

Movies start in about 20 minutes. We’ll be watching a youtube of Bib Mama Thorton in concert at Eugene Oregon from 1971 until the films get going.

See you there!

Movies start in 2 hours