Wildlife: We have had a couple of visits from a Kestral in our back yard -- she was chewing on a slow-flying Finch the first time.



Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!

Web Page News: New corrections from Cedric Curtis, long-time lead guitarist of Friends Roadshow -- great memory for names!
I'm looking at getting a proper domain for my pages too. There's too much in the archives to fit within Cyberport's personal webspace allocations.
I've also started a new project -- a 'modest' website devoted to Ida Rubinstein, an energetic young Jewish lady from St. Petersburg who joined Ballet Russes and became a sensation during Paris' Belle Epoque preceding WWI. She remained a force in Parisian Theatre for three more decades.
Read the Wikipeadia about her: Ida Rubinstein
About twelve years ago, I found an old yellowed newspaper page on the fringes of an otherwise undistinguished garage sale in Spokane, Washington -- it was from the American Examiner, and was copyright 1913 (Great Britain Rights Reserved). It had two large pictures of this elaborately costumed person from the Paris theatrical scene, a couple of spot illustrations of her, and a very strange story/interview by someone named Alan Dale, who seemed to have anything but an open mind about his subject. (Her name was given as Ida RUBENSTEIN, too.)
I am able to contribute those photos, illos, and the oddball article to Rubinstein's scholarship on the web. Luckily, there's at least two biographies about her in print now, where there was only a few scattershot blurbs a decade ago, so I can summarize the outlines of her whole career. I'm not really concerned about her private life, although it has some real significance in her case. She loved other women, and her social circle included some very famous women who lived their lives on their own terms, a fact which has inspired a number of web writers. My choice is to concentrate on her artistic achievements though -- and she had many.

Weather: Fairly nice days, fairly chilly nights, with just a trace of ice on the birdbath in the mornings.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site Six charities can use your clicks.

Garage Sale Booty: Voices of the Loon, an old LP of wonderful bird calls that we didn't hear on our lake this year.

Media Watch: NFL Football -- Donovan McNabb's injury has got to be affecting the Philadelphis Eagles' game. They can't keep trying to play "catch-up" from multi-touchdown deficits. Dallas was ready to pounce on their weaknesses, and sure beat 'em bad! I don't know how they are set up at backup quarterback, but McNabb needs an operation.
PBS' Independent Lens is showing One Nation Under A Groove starting on Tuesday: