Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

documentary

Interesting look at an engineering mistake that's still there fifty miles from Palm Springs, Ca 80 years later, serving as a refuge for some folks who just don't fit in the other world. Of course it's hot, and it stinks because of all the rotting fish (don't ask) and your neighbors can be just about anything...

But you can buy a lot for $400, plunk down a trailer and you're home...living free, with the wind in your hair...actually common house flies, a real issue there. But still the place survives as an emblem of American freedom, or something.

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