Wildlife: As Daylight Savings Time ends, I'm going to have to be extra-careful watching for deer in the dark evenings. There's no hunting in my neighborhood, so they just wander as they please.



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Weather: Real rain, not just condensing fog.

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In The Community: Opening reception for Members Only Salon, and a dual show with ceramicist Kristi Brothers and photographer Michael Coe. Our Crown of the Continent exhibit includes a half-dozen Winold Reiss portraits, and some dandy photos by T.J. Hileman, Roland Reed, and Marshall Noice. The Hockaday Museum's Website
I didn't get into TOO much trouble for my satirical faux postcards.

Media Watch: Dawg-assed movies all over the tube! I love Halloween for this. The Student Senate at FVCC has a 5 DVD collection of public domain howlers that they are showing tonight at a community party -- we double-checked on the Web -- royalty free films, every one of 'em. Only the WORST is GOOD enough for Halloween TV!
Retro Film Media International Public domain movies -- From Metropolis to Cat Women of the Moon.


The View from Lone Pine State Park --
Rapidly-spreading urban sprawl of Kalispell, Montana

Wildlife: Between Bozeman and Butte, Montana I saw what seemed to be a small Deer off the freeway -- when I got closer it turned out to be a very shaggy Coyote, almost big enough to be a Wolf, but the wrong color!



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Weather: Sunny and dry all the way to the Swan River -- then it got foggy all the way into Kalispell, and is still foggy today.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site Six charities get helped by your computer clicks.

In The Community: The Road Trip is over -- Opening reception for Members Only Salon this Thursday at the Hockaday Museum of Art (see image below). The Hockaday Museum's Website

Media Watch: They still have NFL Football on AM radio -- Philadelphia was having a hard time against San Diego, but they finally won. There were several "Oldies" shows on the FM, playing a long-arranged string of old hits. A local DJ in Bozeman sneaked in Little Green Bag by the George Baker Selection from 1970:
(Whispering, somewhat rapping vocals, near-reggae rhythm guitar)
Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag -- Got to find just that kind or losin' my mind -- Outta sight in the night, outta sight in the day -- Lookin' back on the track, gonna do it my way -- Outta sight in the night, outta sight in the day -- Lookin' back on the track, gonna do it my way --Lookin' back
(Full-out Tom Jones-style lounge vocals, with a lead guitar repeating the melody)
Lookin' for some happiness but there is only loneliness to find -- Jump to the left, turn to the right -- Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind -- Lookin' for some happiness but there is only loneliness to find -- Jump to the left, turn to the right -- Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind
(Repeat the whole crazy mess and fade out.)


From Espresso and the Enigmatic Landscape by Michael Evans
These images express elements of irony and tension between the needs of our society and the capacity of Montana's famous landscapes to endure us. I am inside all this scenery -- these are not detached views of somebody else's world. The viewer is welcome to laugh or wonder -- I did both while making these virtual postcards.