Wildlife: Three Ospreys were hunting over Middle Foy's Lake , plus the Bald Eagle showed up soon afterward.



Visit: A Tale of Two Movies
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Weather: Cool nights, warm days, a welcome rainstorm a few days ago.

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Garage Sale Booty: A first-edition novel signed by -- (drum roll) Spiro T. Agnew! (drum sticks fall) What the funk !?! That lousy crook!?! Oh well, they can't all be signed by Lawrence Welk.

In The Community: I'm doing another Sunday afternoon shift at the Hockaday Museum of Art. We had a fabulous opening last Thursday for our new show The Horse In Flathead Valley Collections. One of the senior staff of my former employers Semitool Inc. showed up with his wife, who had a piece in the show. He was nearly struck speechless by the quality of our museum. "I've never been in here before!" He said again and again, "It's beautiful!"
The Hockaday Museum's Website -- Reminder: Winold Reiss, Artist of the Great Northern Railway will be gone in just about a month!
Ms. Kendall Wheeler and some other lucky inholders from Glacier National Park were on-hand too, so we got to talk some history as well. Lisa Schaus showed up, and some of our other long-time friends, but there were many new and welcome faces.

Media Watch: Indian movies from the friendly stores of Toronto and Halifax!
We saw a moustached Shah Rukh Khan on a big screen in Toronto in a costume drama set in some undefined ancient time -- we also saw many posters of Aamir Khan (no relation) dressed in a colonial British uniform, with another ugly moustache, wielding various 19th Century weapons, advertising a new blockbuster named Uprising, most likely about the Sepoy Mutiny in 1858.
Sanjay Doot has been one of my favorites lately -- he's very big for an Indian actor, and a little bit ugly, but he has incredible screen presence plus magnificent timing. He was the co-star of By Hook or Crook, otherwise known as One Plus One Equals Eleven. He does a lot of action movies and caper films like this.
Akshey Khanna and Suniel Shetti were very good in a Romeo/Juliet style farce with a happy ending. They had one early scene where the two duked it out to a draw. (They were both good guys.) Only a professional fighter is capable of trading blows with Suniel Shetti -- he's built like young Roberto Duran, and even looks like him. He's very well-trained and athletic, so another actor would have to be very careful in a stage fight with him. (The very physical Sanjay Doot and Suniel were also the stars of that fantasy flick I mentioned awhile ago, Rudrakesh.)
We saw the remarkable Shah Rukh Khan yet again in Swades last night, a sentimental, but somewhat realistic Bollywood flick set in today's India. Khan played a NASA engineer who travels to the state of Uttar Pradesh, and eventually tries to take on the social problems he encounters. The film acknowledges, and criticizes, both Tradition and Modernity. In fact, the writer's point of view is the best part of the whole thing.