It's official now -- 92 degrees (F) is HOT! We have a fairly humid climate in this corner of Montana, so it gets oppressive quickly. Hummingbirds are buzzing around the feeders at last.

Funk Master Bernie Worrell at: Theater X-Net

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

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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Summer approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Sitemeter Sez: Someone clicked over via Blogger.com from The Citadel, a famous military acadeny in Charleston, South Carolina. Whomever that person was read most of the same page you are reading now -- but Hazel Court was still on the scroll below.
I took a look at the "referrals" list, and it turned out that I had a few visitors who had been searching for Kristy Swanson last winter. Here's my joke about her various batterings and miscues on Skating With Celebrities: http://northernborder.blogspot.com/2006/02/07

Media Watch: I happenned to see Anne Rice on A&E's Breakfast With The Arts last Sunday. She looked good again, after suffering all those health problems at the turn of this century. She was with Bernie Taupin, the great lyricist and co-writer (with Elton John) of Broadway's version of her character Lestat. The stage phenomenon Les Miserables showed the world that a well-done novel could become a successful musical, and Lestat's producers followed the same model.
Nobody could do worse than that wretchedly-handled Hollywood version of Interview with the Vampire in the mid-90's -- good actors, lousy execution (ahem).
Check out her Wikipedia entry, and take a look at Ms. Rice's Official Site.
Breakfast With The Arts resembles my blog to some extent, in it's scatter-shot range of subjects -- I enjoyed seeing their piece on the Frick Museum's exhibition Goya's Last Years.


Detail from The Miracle of St. Anthony, a fresco by Francisco Goya, painted inside of a dome. He is noted today for the mixture of beauty and grotesqueness in his compositions. This segment of the whole may be a precursor to that theme, but it could also be as simple as an illustration of youth and age.