Weather: Dry and warm -- if you think there's no pollution here, you're wrong. The valley is filling up with dust and car exhaust. The ol' "Big Sky" has a lot of brown in it's blue.

Wildlife: Cedar Waxwings are moving in to the neighborhood -- we usually see them in fall. The Canada Geese are starting to migrate too -- our local goslings are getting awfully big, and might join the exodus soon.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World

Media Watch: Ugh! Mo (I love the 70's, 80's, 90's) Rocca as a correspondent at the political conventions -- with people like Larry King pretending to laugh at his lines. I reluctantly admit to getting used to Pauley Shore about ten years ago, but I can't say I welcome even MORE smug whiners on TV news shows. Speaking of has-beens from previous decades, I saw Donnie (New Kids On The Block) Wahlberg in a fragment of some crappy crime flick.
Books -- Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care by John McWhorter isn't as reactionary as the title sounds!
Before It Happens to You by Jonathan Bernstein M.D. recommends taking a combination of aspirin, ACE-inhibitors, statins, and beta blockers as a preventitive regimen against future heart attacks or strokes. Of course I'm thinking about it -- you are much worse-off after a coronary failure, if not crippled or dead.
Poplorica By Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger is very informative and entertaining!
Poplorica Main Menu Page
Quote: Pop culture meets pop reference in this irreverent tour of surprising twentieth-century events and inventions that forever changed the way we live. Journalists Smith and Kiger forage through technology, business, entertainment, sports and sociology in these lively, eclectic profiles of twenty unusual events, inventions and individuals that irrevocably altered modern life. They reveal the real stories and significance of events as unheralded as Alfred Kinsey's disastrous honeymoon, Betty Ford's intervention, and the birth of celebrity voyeurism, as well as the invention of Big Bertha golf clubs, pantyhose, super-absorbent disposable diapers, and permanent press clothes They measure the social impact of TV dinners, black velvet paintings, and the spectacular maneuver that forever changed sports (Dr. J's slam-dunk) -- in provocative essays guaranteed to educate, illuminate and entertain.

Wildlife: Awoke in the night last Friday to the sounds of loud splashing and growling cats. I went outside with a flashlight, and there were a half-dozen baby racoons sitting in our box feeder, devouring the sunflower seeds. We took their picture as they posed for us. Mama Racoon was down on the lawn, and yes, the box feeder was EMPTY in the morning. They haven't been back since. (We've refilled it!)
Yesterday there were two sightings of Osprey fishing.
This morning a huge Bald Eagle perched itself on the west side of Middle Foy's Lake.

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

Weather: Generally hot, but this is Montana -- some scattered leaves are turning yellow and red.

Media Watch: What am I reading? Juggling three books, and I can't remember a single title.
The art museum's website is up-to-date: Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana. We've been working our tails off there!
I've re-listed the Northwestern Montana Historical Society's Looking Back on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6912861292
Ridiculous -- Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital was put out of it's misery the other week, with a re-animator hook in it's tail. (Leave this zombie in the ground!) That decapitated guy never got his head back either -- too bad -- Jesus II shoulda performed a miracle for him when he was resurrected. ABC.com: Kingdom Hospital
Sublime -- Trio Network re-ran Lonesome Highway, A History of Country Music, which was actually produced by BBC Bristol. There was some good footage of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizell, and others. They skipped a lot of the popular side of the industry in favor of a few key figures, and finished the series with alotta praise heaped upon Gillian Welch. I saw her live in Salt Lake a few years ago, and she was PHENOMENAL!
TRIO: pop, culture, tv.