Cold rather than warm today -- mixed snow and rain, depending where you are. We had snow on the "F" slope above us, but our deck was dry. The damn wind sure made flower-planting difficult yesterday.

Modern Dance at: Theater X-Net

Featuring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

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Welcome to the Blog: I subscribed to Sitemeter, and it's interesting to see who visits here and why. Someone from Albany, Oregon surfed in from Yahoo yesterday, looking for references to founding Mime Troup dancer Patsy Droubay -- they found THIS PAGE, which happened to be the starting point for my Theater X-Net project, where they can read more about Patsy. Another person visited TWICE from Jackson, Mississippi -- they wanted to read about Ashley Del Grosso, two-time professional partner on Dancing With The Stars. (I wonder if it was Master P or one of his relatives?) Well, they got a LOT MORE than that -- especially quotes from Tove Jansson. One more surfer of note was looking in from Grand Junction, Colorado for the reception for the family of Winold Reiss and the opening of his show at the Hockaday Museum of Art last year. They stuck around to read about Ray Bradbury too.

Media Watch: Mystery on PBS ran a sleazy British cop show supposedly set in the 50's or early 60's. Some of the clothes, cars, and Vespas were convincing, but the brash characters were all from RIGHT NOW. In those days, a dense and deadly politeness ruled British society that was satirized in Ionesco's Bald Soprano, and ignored in this Granada TV drama.


Diana Dors was a famous British "Blonde Bombshell," ala' Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, during the late 1950's and pre-Beatles 60's. Like those other two entertainers, the reward for her sensuality, generosity, and courage was a dreadful private life.