Wildlife: Regular visits by hummingbirds, especially in the evening. It looks like the Loons have moved back to Big Foy's Lake -- distant calls, but no sightings for weeks.
Weather: A perfect summer day on Tuesday. Clouds are gathering on the western horizon today.
Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
In The Community: "Procrastination Blues" at the Hockaday -- Monday was supposed to be the deadline for the Lens On Montana photo show. The pictures shoulda been ready to hang too. Well, a whole lotta stuff came in Tuesday, with almost as many excuses as there were photos! They'll all be hanging up by August 5th. Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Media Watch: Speak Easily from 1932 with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante. An outhouse special -- it's really sad that Keaton, who made some of the greatest films of all time, fell so far down after his heyday in the 20's. You can blame alcoholism, I guess, for some of his problems -- but that movie just plain sucked -- it was about a theatre show that sucked too. You'd think they could do better with Jimmy Durante in the cast, but they didn't.
It bore a family resemblance to 42nd Street, being a backstage comedy -- there was even a blustery artistic director ala Warner Baxter (musta been a social stereotype then), but that's damning it with very faint praise.
It was part of a TCM series of flicks featuring Thelma Todd -- she was sexy, beautiful, and funny, but is famous today mostly for being found dead in a still-unsolved Hollywood mystery.
Other movies she made included Horsefeathers and Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers, plus the first movie version of Dashell Hammett's Maltese Falcon, featuring Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, and Una Merkel.
One web page: Denny Jackson's Thelma Todd Page
Another page: Thelma Todd
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Weather: About 1 1/2 inches of rain fell in less than two hours Monday AM -- I'm glad we didn't flood at the Art Museum, because City Hall and other nearby places had water in their basements. It also rained a little this morning. After a couple of over-90-degree days at the end of last week, it is a welcome relief.
Wildlife: Two Redtailed Hawks were soaring overhead just east of my house. The deer herd is back -- mostly around Little Foy's Lake -- They have little spotty fawns in tow, and a few of our garden flowers are missing tops lately. Good thing I left those fenceposts in place!
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
In the Community: The Compleat Works of Willm. Shkspr (Abridged) outdoors at the college.
The P.A. started crackling, so they shut it off -- it was a calm evening in an ampitheater, so the voices were still heard by everyone. I was pulled out of the crowd for one audience-participation section, made everyone laugh, and got outta there without blowing it -- the actors and writers did the whole job -- all I had to do was react.
One site of many: The Compleat Works of Willm. Shakspr. (abridged)
We have to tear down ALL the shows at the Hockaday Museum of Art, and get a whole new set of exhibits up on the walls by August 5. We are also having our annual outdoor Arts In the Park festival July 23 thru 25, and an after-hours Fun Friday in association with Downtown Kalispell businesses on July 30. (It will be the beginning of my fifth year at The Hockaday.) I'm going on vacation right afterwards!
The director has to cope with a Bibler Gardens fund-raiser for us during the evenings of August 2-6, and the aforementioned reception on the 5th. I hate to miss that reception, but there's someone else on-staff who's able to take pictures now. (She's cat-sitting for us too.)
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Media Watch: I can't remember EVERYTHING!
John Huston's Asphalt Jungle was an effective, but overly linear film noir. It helped the young, struggling Marilyn Monroe become a star, for good or bad. We also taped a bunch of B and C grade pre-1936 comedies from TCM last night. (MY kind of cinema -- vaudville on film!)
I've been reading a collection of 100 stories by Ray Bradbury. The book was published in 1980, so there's many more to read now. Ray Bradbury Online - Bibliography - Books
I was pleasantly surprised by The Terminal last weekend -- an entertaining but shallow Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg movie. Catherine Zeta-Jones had an unfortunately demeaning role as an unnecessary love-interest. Nothing in the story survived re-examination, but it was a pleasant ride if you didn't think much. I rarely go to the movies anymore, but since we don't have air-conditioning (see Weather), it was a good evening out.
Here's the sadder back-story: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Travel (Stranded at the Airport)
Wildlife: Two Redtailed Hawks were soaring overhead just east of my house. The deer herd is back -- mostly around Little Foy's Lake -- They have little spotty fawns in tow, and a few of our garden flowers are missing tops lately. Good thing I left those fenceposts in place!
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
In the Community: The Compleat Works of Willm. Shkspr (Abridged) outdoors at the college.
The P.A. started crackling, so they shut it off -- it was a calm evening in an ampitheater, so the voices were still heard by everyone. I was pulled out of the crowd for one audience-participation section, made everyone laugh, and got outta there without blowing it -- the actors and writers did the whole job -- all I had to do was react.
One site of many: The Compleat Works of Willm. Shakspr. (abridged)
We have to tear down ALL the shows at the Hockaday Museum of Art, and get a whole new set of exhibits up on the walls by August 5. We are also having our annual outdoor Arts In the Park festival July 23 thru 25, and an after-hours Fun Friday in association with Downtown Kalispell businesses on July 30. (It will be the beginning of my fifth year at The Hockaday.) I'm going on vacation right afterwards!
The director has to cope with a Bibler Gardens fund-raiser for us during the evenings of August 2-6, and the aforementioned reception on the 5th. I hate to miss that reception, but there's someone else on-staff who's able to take pictures now. (She's cat-sitting for us too.)
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Media Watch: I can't remember EVERYTHING!
John Huston's Asphalt Jungle was an effective, but overly linear film noir. It helped the young, struggling Marilyn Monroe become a star, for good or bad. We also taped a bunch of B and C grade pre-1936 comedies from TCM last night. (MY kind of cinema -- vaudville on film!)
I've been reading a collection of 100 stories by Ray Bradbury. The book was published in 1980, so there's many more to read now. Ray Bradbury Online - Bibliography - Books
I was pleasantly surprised by The Terminal last weekend -- an entertaining but shallow Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg movie. Catherine Zeta-Jones had an unfortunately demeaning role as an unnecessary love-interest. Nothing in the story survived re-examination, but it was a pleasant ride if you didn't think much. I rarely go to the movies anymore, but since we don't have air-conditioning (see Weather), it was a good evening out.
Here's the sadder back-story: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Travel (Stranded at the Airport)
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