Red Wing Blackbird chicks are reaching their full growth. The Magpies are still flocking in groups of about eight. Mama Deer and their Fawns can be seen at any time of day. We are having the oddest weather -- forest-fire smoke plus clouds which seem invisible when straight overhead, yet drizzle localized showers underneath. A cool wind is blowing from the Southwest, and leaves are turning color. August in Montana.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: 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!

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Media Watch: Boring, but good-hearted, Elvis Costello was on Tavis Smiley with the great New Orleans player and composer Allan Toussaint. They played a snippet of their well-done remake of Toussaint's song How Do We Help Brother Get Further? A Lee Dorsey jam from the album Yes We Can (1969).
There's been some things going on which have kept me from the TV. I have nothing to say about the Karr sideshow. I'm glad fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs is behind bars, and I hope he stays there for all the rest of his ugly, child-abusing life. I DID see a documentary on PBS about Baron Manfred Von Richthoffen, the "Bloody Red Baron," who killed 80 Allied aviators in WWI, and a somewhat more lighthearted one about archelogical diving in the offshore ruins of Alexandria, Egypt -- one of the most important cities in Western cultural history. Oh yeah -- right up there with Rome, Athens, and Constantinople. The size and shape of the Earth was first deduced there, among other scientific curiosities.

It's time for Footsbarn Photos!



(Left) Eugenio and Robin line up as Mama Fanta sells them healthy Ginger drinks and Hybiscus tea on the midway of Footsbarn's Celebration of Theatre. (Right) In the distance, James' Velocycle cruises the bars next to infamous Buckinger's Boot Marionettes with Father Seamus (pronounced "Shame-us") and his Sinful Sisters entertaining the crowds with the low-comedy tune Mah Nà Mah Nà, and more outrageous stuff & nonsense.