Weather: It's gonna be COLD, sez the radio! It was gray and raining this morning. BTW -- one week until the Summer Solastice is complete. Last year, after the rain ceased, the forest fires damn near smoked us out of here.

Wildlife: Mama Duck leads her ducklings under our hanging seed feeder almost every day now. The cats are afraid of big birds, so they don't bother them.

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Media Watch: The beautiful Star Cullars, and her band Enterprise are playing Park City, Utah tonight. Get up outta the valley and get down to some hardcore Funk in the mountains! I sent word to my friends in Salt Lake City, and hope someone I know is gonna go.
Speaking of Funk -- I'm enjoying a downloaded radio show from San Francisco, hosted by DJ Ricky Vincent. A couple of cyber-pals of mine (Ronald "Stozo" Edwards and Gina Hall) were at this broadcast when it was taped, about ten days ago. A couple of P-Funk family/friends did live performances too -- Zootzilla and Ronkat Spearman.
As far as TV goes, we were previewing some new Bollywood DVDs last night.
I'd been listening to the sad depressing news on NPR, and was ready for some cinema escapism.

At The College: When I was testing out the aforementioned CD in my office, a nice older lady from the watercolor class came in to make an appointment. Just as soon as she left, a rather lewd jam by Zootzilla started pouring out of my speakers, and I had to turn them down before someone else came in who might be offended -- like maybe my BOSS.
We're shuffling new equipment around, and sending some of it back -- Snap, Crackle, and Pop belong on a cereal box, not inside a new audio mixer!

Wildlife: A small, very dark, squirrel has found the box feeder now. The skunk checked out where it USED to be, and left immediately.

Weather: An almost cloudless "big sky," kinda chilly, though. I was gardening yesterday evening -- getting some of those bloody weeds out before they flower. The Summer Solastice is next week, but we're still getting snow above 5000 feet.

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At The College: Inventory time! Serial numbers et cetera. Dubbing some songs from Angela Lansbury's Mame in 1966 -- one of those big successes that helped KILL Broadway for half a generation. Why? The same authors wrote Inherit The Wind, which is played (on video) in the Humanities classes.
It's really too bad that the Scopes Trial, and attendant religeous fervor, is relevant at all today, but we have "Intelligent (sic) Design" and "Creationism" being pushed on people by well-heeled manipulators like Ayatollah Robertson.

Media Watch: Read about Robert Boyle in The Scientists, told in the context of the English Civil War. Very good, Mr. Gribben! Barnes & Noble.com - The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy -- Carson's gotta stop breaking things! That riff of throwing couches etc. out of windows is stupid, and needs a rest too.
NPR reported that Tom Delay has finally drawn an ethics complaint from an outgoing Texas congressman. It's about time!

Wildlife: How many turtles can fit on the log in the lake? On a sunny day there's been as many as thirteen, but there's room for more!

Weather: Rain last night. Low scattered clouds and patches of white ground fog today.

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Media Watch: Reading about Rene Descartes in The Scientists.
For all his attempts to stay off the Catholic "banned" list, he still made it -- by doing good math and telling the truth about it. That'll larn ya'! "The Church" (fill in whatever church you want between the quotes)ain't in the truth business anyway.
Jonathan Creek is a pale shadow of what was once a good show.
Wolfen -- the late Gregory Hines at the high point of author Whitney Streiber's success. That "perverted aliens" schtick he's also done may make money, but it's pathetic.

Wildlife: Bluebirds nesting at the foot of our hill!

Weather: Sweeping clouds overhead, lots of wind, and some rain.
It all gathers over Glacier National Park and really storms there!
(See Media Watch, below)

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site

Media Watch: NBA Playoffs -- Shaq is big and strong,
but the Detroit players physically outlast everybody else on his team, plus Karl Malone is hors de combat with a knee injury.
L.A. is down 3 games to 1 -- looks bad for them.
SPEAKING OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!
I saw Heaven's Gate on Trio Network last night.
It was mostly filmed on the Blackfeet Reservation,
about two hours east of here. Nice scenery! They even gave the constant,withering wind out there a supporting role in the movie.
I know a little bit about the Johnson County, Wyoming range war
which it was based on, and Michael Cimino's infamously indulgent
flick bears little resemblence to the facts.
At the same time, FMC was showing My Darling Clementine,
another violent tall tale vaguely derived from a historical incident.
The shootout at the OK Corral was just one ugly episode
in a range war in Arizona that lasted over 20 years.
Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite
specify if they mean financial or artistic failures,
or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked. They did show a
documentary about "New Coke" from the 80's -- Now THAT was a FLOP!