Two deer and a skunk dispersed their little meeting as our car drove by last evening. There were two Whitetail fawns at the same place this morning. The weather is partly cloudy, with lots of sun, but it was close to freezing last night. Greetings to: Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Ian Sholes AKA Merle Kessler); Schaumburg, Illinois (Hardcore Punk-Rock from SLC, Utah); Canon City, Colorado (Hockaday info!) and Kaysville, Utah (Street Legal Theater). Wherefore art thou, Dublin?

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

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Autumn rushes toward us! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: I'm framing my digital watercolor Masques On Parade today for the Autumn Salon at the Hockaday Museum of Art. I need to get some extra matte board for gifts too -- Clara McBride deserves one, Eavan Brennan is front and center, and I'll send another to Paddy and Fredericka Haytor.

Media Watch: Book TV featured Robert Rosen, who disputed, in public, the mean-spirited unsubstantiated belief that President Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned the Jews in Europe. In his book, Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rosen argued that President Roosevelt was not a passive bystander to the deaths of Jewish people but led an administration that dealt with Nazi persecution instead. Mr. Rosen believes President Roosevelt was unfairly criticized for 1) failure to save the Jewish passengers aboard the St. Louis in 1939, 2) failure to change immigration laws, 3) failure to speak against the Holocaust, and 4) refusal to bomb Auschwitz.
I am no micro-historian, but I knew enough to know it was bullshit to accuse Roosevelt of being an accomplice in the Shoah (Holocaust). It's very sad that those false allegations were left to fester in the popular press for a generation before they were seriously refuted -- real scholars, and people with living memories to the contrary spoke up twenty years ago, but they weren't as sensational as the smug revisionists, so guess who got played up by the Media?
One thing I will say -- Jewish refugees suffered, sometimes hideously, at the hands of anti-Nazi allies -- things could have/should have been handled better, but they weren't.

Let's think about other things, like Footsbarn's Celebration of Theatre:


Theatre Company Minduelle from South Korea put on a bright, engaging show called Eunusong, which was actually a tragedy about true love going wrong -- very wrong, under the pressures of corruption in the world. The young, energetic cast lent the sounds and color of their native country to our parades around neighboring towns.