The weather cleared up alright -- until the afternoon. It rained hard until midnight at least. Good thing I was driving slow after dark in my neighborhood -- a rather foolish Whitetail sauntered right in front of me. You can't hunt around Foy's Lake, but a lot of animals die from collisions there.

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
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Autumn settles in. Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Almost 200 people braved the sloppy rain to show up at the Hockaday Museum of Art for Ed Gilliland's lecture and reception last night.

Media Watch: Another book about books and media -- The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. This tome is mostly gossip so far -- about Percy Shelly, Harriet Shelly, Mary W. (Godwin) Shelly, Claire Godwin, and we'll soon get to the prolifigate Lord Byron, Dr. Poldori, and Lake Geneva. The cover picture is Fuseli's famous Nightmare, the same image Ken Russell used to advertise Gothic, his less-than-excellent dramatization of Frankenstein's genesis.
Mary Shelly's famous book is not only a major Gothic Novel, but it's also the FIRST actual Science Fiction novel -- so says my friend Brian W. Aldiss in The Trillion Year Spree, to my complete agreement.
It's theme of unintended consequences still resonates deeply in human society, and overwhelms the ridiculous plot.

On a lighter note: Merrily we roll along ... roll along ... roll along!


Clara (front) and Eavan (back) "carting around" with Pierre's son and Sharon's son during Footsbarn's Celebration of Theatre at sunset. They not only worked dawn to dusk, but sometimes dawn to dawn.