Weather: After dust was blowing hundreds of feet high throughout the valley, a wet storm brought in rain and snow (above 4000 ft). Good start, but not enough.

Wildlife: We walked around nearby Firehouse Pond and counted the Canadian Goose nests -- five at least.
We haven't counted the nests on Little Foy's Lake yet.

Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need

Media Watch: Part Two of Helen Mirren's Prime Witness 6 was fairly good, as far as mysteries go. I enjoyed seeing the white cliffs of Dover in one scene. I'm sure they never went to Bosnia to tape though -- the landscapes were all verdant green. Her character, Jane Tennyson, sure can be a mean mutha -- with a good cause perhaps, but sometimes she's just plain MEAN.

Updates: New stuff here: The M -- Your Museum and More! NW Montana Historical Society Museum at Central School
More stuff at the Hockaday later: Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.

Here's what the Bildlestiffs are doing:
Tuesdays
Leviathan at The Coral Room
512 West 29th Street
between 10th and 11th Aves.
Admission only $5. Doors open at 10 pm
www.coralroomnyc.com

Wild world music and sensational circus acts take over Manhattan's swankiest under-sea adventure nightclub. DJ Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello will be spinning electro gypsy punk while Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre bring in the hottest circus acts around. Live Bands every week and Live mermaids swimming in the gigantic aquarium behind the bar.

This Week at Leviathan - April 27 - 10pm

Human Marvels - live music like you've never seen before. The Enigma whom you may know as the blue puzzle piece man from the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow along with the beautiful and buxotic Katzen the Tiger Lady pick up their axes to rock your world and pick up their other axes to chop watermelons off each others heads, swallow swords, stick meat skewers through their flesh, smile, sing and generally blow your mind with the most amazing visual display of rock and roll ever to strike one stage. They're only playing one, that's right just one, show in New York and you guessed it - it's Leviathan at the Coral Room.
But that's not all - you still get the international circus stars you've come to expect from us - this week you'll also see:
Alex Merinov - Ninja acrobat from the Moscow Circus
Mark Mitton - Amazing mind bending magician
Tyler Fyre - Coney Island Marvel.
Plus beautiful mermaids like Julie Atlas Muz swimming in the giant aquarium behind the bar - it's hands down the best five bucks worth of entertainment in Manhattan if not the world.

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Wednesday
Lucky Stiff in the Pussycat
Lucky Stiff in the Pussycat
Wednesday at 9pm
The Pussycat Lounge
96 Greenwich St. at the Corner of Rector St.
N, R, 1 & 9 trains to Rector St.
$11 to enter or just print out this email and get in cheap - just $6!
www.pussycatloungenyc.com

"Sleaze is back in New York at the Pussycat Lounge." --Time Out NY

Come on out to the last real live erotic cabaret and drench yourself in the delightful debauchery of sexy strippers and circus stars. With live music by Reverend Tribble and the Angels - a Lucky Stiff favorite since the very beginning. Hosted as always by those sultans of seduction - Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre.

This Week (Wednesday April 28th) features

Insectavora - Beautiful bug eating babe from the Coney Island Circus Sideshow is leaving her snacks at home and showing you a side of her totally tattooed self not normally seen by the general public.
Balloonheadz - the king of latex is stuffing a beautiful girl in a balloon and pumping 'till it pops!
Creamy Stevens - Sweet, sexy, beautiful brunette
Miss Elyse - Cute and curvey, this bodacious blonde will blow your mind.

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May 1
Circus Colossa
Torrington Middle School
200 Middle school rd., Torrington, CT
Showtimes 1,4 & 7 on Satuday
Admission Adults $14.00 Child $7.00 (without free child coupon).
http://www.circuscolossa.com

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus co-founders, Mr. Pennygaff and Philomena, are appearing with Circus Colossa: an old-time circus spectacle for the entire family. Philomena is the Ringmistress and Mr. Pennygaff will be performing an amazing diablo routine and a sword swallowing demonstration.

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May 6
Decadance: a Benefit Event for Collective Unconscious
7 pm to midnight at Performance Space 122
150 First Avenue, NYC
Tickets can be purchase at the PS122 Box Office
or by calling 212-477-5288 or online at www.weird.org/decadance

Mistress and Master of Ceremonies, Reverend Jen Miller and Faceboy host this benefit bash featuring the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Karen Finley, Neal Medlyn, Julie Atlas Muz, and the Electrified Sweets

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Friday May 7
at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street
between Kent and Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Showtime: 10 pm to 1 am
Admission $5.
Call 718 782-5188 for more info

Philomena will be hosting the regular Floating Vaudeville Night at Galapos in the heart of Williamsburgh, NY.

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June 11,12,13, 2004
Drawin' the Wildcard Tattoo Extravaganza!
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
www.drawinthewildcard.com

In early June Mr. Pennygaff and Philomena are performing with the Rev. Frankie Luv Traveling Tattoo Sideshow in Atlantic City. More details coming soon.