Wildlife: Looked like an Osprey was swooping over our lake this morning, but it got bigger and bigger, until it turned into a Bald Eagle. Whew!
It wasn't fishing, just looking around. I hope it leaves the ducklings alone.
Weather: A thunderstorm roared over the valley yesterday about 5:30 PM. It must have been the leading edge of a front, because the temperature rose significantly afterward, and it stayed warm all night.
Charity Alert: Anybody reading this needs oxygen as much as I do: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
In the Community: The Landscapes of Tom English and The Graceful Envelope opened last night at the Hockaday Museum of Art. The calligraphy workshop is moving forward, but Tom's plein aire classes are cancelled.
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Howard and Maureine Jacobson also had an art-opening at the Kalispell Grand Hotel (I drove by to say HI, and see my work-buddy Jessica Jacobson.)
Joann Schadewitz, the manager, is president of the NW Historical Society, and a little bit of my work still remains on the hotel's site: Kalispell Grand Hotel
Media Watch: The C-Span bus was parked in Flathead Valley Community College's parking lot. I shot some video for our next Current Events show, and talked to some nice folks. Great mobile TV studio they have!
George Tenant resigned. Now the administration moonpies he was kissing up to should quit as well -- all of 'em.
Friday, June 04, 2004
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Wildlife: Two Ospreys (Fish Eagles) were checking out Middle Foys Lake -- yes, there's fish here! If they nest anywhere nearby, we can watch them feeding in the mornings and evenings.
Weather: Not a cloud in the sky.
Charity Alert: Make a difference with mouse clicks -- The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: I tuned in to Inside the Actors Studio to see a re-run of the cast of The Simpsons, before their successful job-action. Fun-eee!
Staying Current: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus update --
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. This night of dancing and lounging is hosted by Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre, who bring in the hottest circus acts around. Live Bands every week and Live mermaids swimming in the gigantic aquarium behind the bar.
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FINAL WEEK!!!
Wednesday June 9
Lucky Stiff in the Pussycat
The Pussycat Lounge
96 Greenwich St. at the Corner of Rector St.
N, R, 1 & 9 trains to Rector St.
Doors: 9 pm
$11 to enter or just print out this email and get in cheap - just $6!
www.pussycatloungenyc.com
There is only one more week of Luckystiff in the Pussycat. That's right--only one final and fabulous debaucherous show. So come on out to the last real live erotic cabaret and drench yourself in the delightful debauchery of sexy strippers and circus stars. Hosted as always by those sultans of seduction - Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre.
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June 11 & 12 2004
Drawin' the Wildcard Tattoo Extravaganza!
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
www.drawinthewildcard.com
Mr. Pennygaff and Philomena are performing sideshow feats with the Rev. Frankie Luv Traveling Tattoo Sideshow in Atlantic City.
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July 9
Burlesque at the Beach
Coney Island Sideshow, Coney Island, NY
10 pm
http://www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml
On July 9 Bindlestiff Family Cirkus hosts Coney Island's popular Burlesque on the Beach- A revival of the most glorious and notorious of the "girlie revues" in Coney Island history. The sumptuous decor, fabulous bubble machine and swell girls make burlesque one of Coney's hottest attractions! A blend of old style burlesque, sideshow freaks, strange women, new vaudeville and toe tappin' music... its fireworks after the fireworks!!
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
PO Box 1917, NYC 10009
http://www.bindlestiff.org
1-877-BINDLES
Weather: Not a cloud in the sky.
Charity Alert: Make a difference with mouse clicks -- The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: I tuned in to Inside the Actors Studio to see a re-run of the cast of The Simpsons, before their successful job-action. Fun-eee!
Staying Current: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus update --
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. This night of dancing and lounging is hosted by Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre, who bring in the hottest circus acts around. Live Bands every week and Live mermaids swimming in the gigantic aquarium behind the bar.
* * * * * * * * * *
FINAL WEEK!!!
Wednesday June 9
Lucky Stiff in the Pussycat
The Pussycat Lounge
96 Greenwich St. at the Corner of Rector St.
N, R, 1 & 9 trains to Rector St.
Doors: 9 pm
$11 to enter or just print out this email and get in cheap - just $6!
www.pussycatloungenyc.com
There is only one more week of Luckystiff in the Pussycat. That's right--only one final and fabulous debaucherous show. So come on out to the last real live erotic cabaret and drench yourself in the delightful debauchery of sexy strippers and circus stars. Hosted as always by those sultans of seduction - Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre.
* * * * * * * * * * *
June 11 & 12 2004
Drawin' the Wildcard Tattoo Extravaganza!
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
www.drawinthewildcard.com
Mr. Pennygaff and Philomena are performing sideshow feats with the Rev. Frankie Luv Traveling Tattoo Sideshow in Atlantic City.
* * * * * * * * * * *
July 9
Burlesque at the Beach
Coney Island Sideshow, Coney Island, NY
10 pm
http://www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml
On July 9 Bindlestiff Family Cirkus hosts Coney Island's popular Burlesque on the Beach- A revival of the most glorious and notorious of the "girlie revues" in Coney Island history. The sumptuous decor, fabulous bubble machine and swell girls make burlesque one of Coney's hottest attractions! A blend of old style burlesque, sideshow freaks, strange women, new vaudeville and toe tappin' music... its fireworks after the fireworks!!
* * * * * * * * * * *
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
PO Box 1917, NYC 10009
http://www.bindlestiff.org
1-877-BINDLES
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Wildlife: Mastertux emailed me to comment on the neighborhood skunk, and to ask about moose in our area.
Yes, we have moose. A big ol' female swam in our lake about this time last year. Normally they are very reclusive -- a survival trait.
There's more than one skunk too -- they're fairly bold right now for some reason. I saw a big white-fringed specimen run from the lake shore to our next-door neighbor's house.
This may be have been a third skunk -- there's always been skunk-burrows across the street, near the swimming-pool guy.
Ours is a timid, smaller, mostly black critter who visits the bird feeder tray after dark. We know he/she's there because the three cats line up at the sliding glass door and growl as a team. No bad smells yet!
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Weather: Rained all weekend, but it's warming up again. We crossed the Continental Divide on Monday -- Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park opened after all, about a week earlier than "normal." I've seen deeper snow -- most of it looks like it fell recently. There was a nasty avalanche crossing the deepest part of the canyon. They'd plowed through, but it had crossed Logan Creek from the south and piled trees up on the northern slope. It was pretty deep too.
Media Watch: Cary Grant, A Class Apart was a fairly good biography of the late versatile movie star: TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES HOME If they mentioned Arsenic & Old Lace, I missed it -- a fabulous job of over-acting!
World War Two movies and documentaries all weekend -- various mixes of truth and fiction, especially in the films.
The memorial to the veterans of this war was well-deserved, and it was good that we heard some of THEIR eyewitness stories.
Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. By then over half the German army was killed or wounded, mostly on the Russian Front. We had all we could handle once we landed, and it took a years worth of slaughter on two fronts to finally defeat the Nazis.
When I lived in England, I noticed that every village had a memorial to the local men who'd perished in WWI and WWII. Some of those lists were pretty long -- and the hilltop memorial over Plymouth was all-too-huge.
I've seen Metz, where my friend Jack Kirby almost lost his life, trying to dislodge dug-in German troops in a narrow river valley, and Bastonge in 1976, where the hills and valleys were still littered with ordinance from the Battle of the Bulge!
Yes, we have moose. A big ol' female swam in our lake about this time last year. Normally they are very reclusive -- a survival trait.
There's more than one skunk too -- they're fairly bold right now for some reason. I saw a big white-fringed specimen run from the lake shore to our next-door neighbor's house.
This may be have been a third skunk -- there's always been skunk-burrows across the street, near the swimming-pool guy.
Ours is a timid, smaller, mostly black critter who visits the bird feeder tray after dark. We know he/she's there because the three cats line up at the sliding glass door and growl as a team. No bad smells yet!
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Weather: Rained all weekend, but it's warming up again. We crossed the Continental Divide on Monday -- Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park opened after all, about a week earlier than "normal." I've seen deeper snow -- most of it looks like it fell recently. There was a nasty avalanche crossing the deepest part of the canyon. They'd plowed through, but it had crossed Logan Creek from the south and piled trees up on the northern slope. It was pretty deep too.
Media Watch: Cary Grant, A Class Apart was a fairly good biography of the late versatile movie star: TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES HOME If they mentioned Arsenic & Old Lace, I missed it -- a fabulous job of over-acting!
World War Two movies and documentaries all weekend -- various mixes of truth and fiction, especially in the films.
The memorial to the veterans of this war was well-deserved, and it was good that we heard some of THEIR eyewitness stories.
Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. By then over half the German army was killed or wounded, mostly on the Russian Front. We had all we could handle once we landed, and it took a years worth of slaughter on two fronts to finally defeat the Nazis.
When I lived in England, I noticed that every village had a memorial to the local men who'd perished in WWI and WWII. Some of those lists were pretty long -- and the hilltop memorial over Plymouth was all-too-huge.
I've seen Metz, where my friend Jack Kirby almost lost his life, trying to dislodge dug-in German troops in a narrow river valley, and Bastonge in 1976, where the hills and valleys were still littered with ordinance from the Battle of the Bulge!
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