Hairy and Downey Woodpeckers are feasting at the suet feeders. The Flickers show up a couple of times a day, in between the Magpies. There is a small flock of beautiful Pheasants which seem to travel eight at a time -- males and females. We are seeing Nuthatches as well as Chickadees -- they look almost the same, except the Nuthatches are smaller and have subtle yellows, oranges, and blues in their feathers. The Juncos eat right off the deck -- watch out for that stray cat, birdies!


Our big Christmas Cactus continues to erupt!

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
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 Winter decorates the Holidays with snow. Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Museum workshops at the Hockaday Museum of Art all this week. I'm pouring wine at a reception on Wednesday night too. At the college, it's SLACKER Week -- all sorts of last-minute projects dumped at my door. It's nice to be needed, I guess. Over the Christmas break, we'll be participating in the annual Audubon Society bird count again.

Media Watch: Pros and cons of the Google Print Project on Book TV -- pretty contentious. The Internet has beseiged the walls of traditonal publishing for over ten years now -- kind of like the Trojan War. Is there any wonder why publishers and authors are suspicious of "nerds" bearing "gifts?"
American Football -- I'm a little sorry I said anything about the Indianapolis Colts -- they've lost three of their last four games since I said it might be their year to win it all. The University of Montana lost their playoff match last Friday. Maybe there will be fewer colds going around with one less outdoor game in this dark gray weather.
We had a "White Elephant" Christmas party for the Hockaday staff. My contribution was a pair of dawg-assed DVDs -- The Manster, made in Japan around 1959, and Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe from 1940. (Carol Hughes plays a lab-assistant version of Dale Arden who TRIES to be feisty, but is very ineffectual due to rock-headed guards and exploding bombs.) Call 'em Black-and-White Elephants!


These animations are fun!
This screen-capture is from the wonderful
Tony LaBue's Flash Gordon website. He has pictures, credits, and even documentation about the MUSIC from these serials!