So far it's cooler than yesterday. There's a few clouds, and a lot of air pollution from this week-long high pressure. The Red Wing Blackbirds made a huge fuss in the reeds by the lake last night. We wondered what was going on for awhile, and then a skunk meandered out of the undergrowth to scarf up some seeds under the big birdfeeder in the Chokecherry tree.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: Theater X-Net

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

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

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

Sitemeter Sez: Komae, Tokyo (Japan); Missoula, Montana; Advance, North Carolina; Rockledge, Florida; Hialeah, Florida; Herstal, Liege (Belgium); Gilbert, Arizona; and Winnipeg, Manitoba. About half of them stayed around long enough to READ more than one thing.

Media Watch: Queer Eye For The Straight Guy had another gay client. It wasn't the best show I've ever seen, but there was one FUNNY sequence -- the client made an unholy mess in his new kitchen cooking up a tomato tort -- when it came time to serve it he just put the whole thing down in front of his (straight) roommates and his (very ill-at-ease) date and said "dig in" -- no plates, no napkins, no cutlery, no class. They gouged it with shared spoons etc. while the Fab Five mocked them from their remote apartment "I'll just eat off the floor!" -- the Queer Eye crew were hilarious. (This particular client wasn't a very apt pupil.)


Two young male Mule Deers on the Trail of the Cedars, Glacier National Park -- Saturday June 24, 2006. The snow has just finished melting at these elevations, and it's taken awhile for the vegetation to come up this year.