Gonna have to hightail it from my class Thursday night to catch Ron Silliman's reading at the Unitarian Center -- a shame I can't make it to his talk at State (damn classes!).
A couple of weeks ago my class saw Curtis Choy's classic documentary The Fall of the I-Hotel. I was told, not sure by who, that Silliman is in the scene when the camera makes a long pan across the crowd and Al Robles recites the organizations involved (longshoremen, Glide Memorial Church, The People's Temple -- my students never get that last part). No surprise that Silliman would be there, but alas, my only photo of Young Silliman is The Age of Huts-era Ron, and that was almost a full decade afterwards. Maybe I'll ask him on Thursday. And just for Rhett, I'll be wearing a black sweater and a necklace pendant with a big A on it.
Hmm. I wonder if he's in the poster I have of a bunch of the I-Hotel activists standing out in front of the hotel.
My students are going to see Curtis Choy's film next week, and will be commenting on it in their blogs.
jean
Posted by: jean on October 5, 2004 11:16 PM