High Summer -- not too hot, but nobody'll mistake these kind of days for Spring or Fall! The Goslings were sighted on Firehouse Pond and Little Foy's Lake. I wonder if those ugly algae blooms in the pond had anything to do with anything?

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

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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Webmaster Blues: I called Michael Hampton, one of the finest electric guitarists in the world, and talked about "his" web pages at http://theatrex.net -- he'll be back touring with George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars this Fall, but he's doing some other things too.

In The Community: Another Sunday at the Hockaday Museum of Art! I was doing a Power Point project for the Great Northern Railroad reception tomorrow night. Arts In The Park starts this upcoming Friday, so my muscles are requested Thursday night. At least our Executive Director asked me to be there. You know what? I'll be doing two festivals in just under a month.

Media Watch: The Governor of Montana came up and introduced himself to me last Thursday! I wrote a diary about our meeting on DailyKos -- a site to which we both contribute . Some nice people added to my story, including Governor Schweitzer himself!
Book TV had good presenters on two scary subjects -- Polio and Living Wills.
PBS had a whole "string" of good programs, including another chapter in their Blues series, and a fabulous jam led by Bill Lasiwell on Soundstage -- Pharoah Sanders, Buckethead, Brain, and Bootsy Collins were only SOME of Lasiwell's guests. Nova had a Physics survey entitled "The Elegant Universe" that hit some high points about the discoveries of Newton, Einstein, and Bohr, ending up with the promise of "String Theory," which has yet to be proven -- but is SO elegant, or so the math guys say.

TWO Vincent Price movies on Sunday! Roger Corman's The Raven again, and a horror-ible flick called Dr. Goldfoot & the Bikini Machine (1965) with Frankie Avalon.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs is the sequel ... Made in Italy and released in 1966, Girl Bombs was the final film that (the great) Mario Bava directed for AIP, with Vincent Price as the only returning original cast member. Girl Bombs is perhaps even campier ... and combines elements of both Goldfinger and Thunderball. Also starring are Fabian and Laura Antonelli.
From Brian's Drive In Theater