Mornings are pretty dark. We saw a young "spiked" Whitetail buck mooching around our backyard last night. Speaking of which the Deer should stop congregating on the roads in the AM -- there's nothing to eat there, but plenty of cars to collide with.

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 for the Holidays with snow. Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Susan Arthur Guthrie's loose photographic watercolor was voted First Place in the Members Only Salon at the Hockaday. Jennifer Li's blind-stitch-brushed oil painting took Second, and Margaret Voermans' copper piece was Third. Hockaday Museum of Art

Media Watch: December 7 -- In 1941 it was "A day which will live in infamy," according to Franklin D. Roosevelt. My father was 15 years old, my mother wasn't even thirteen, and they wouldn't meet until long after WWII was over. There was NO conspiracy on the part of the president or his government to allow an attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Yamamoto simply took us by surprise. The fact that US aircraft carriers were away on manuevers surprised HIM, to our eventual salvation. Misfortune, incompetence, and arrogance are neither recent afflictions of our leaders, nor restricted to our country.
We bought a more durable DVD player and watched Bluffmaster, a ree-dick-yoo-luss Bollywood comedy/suspense flick starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, and Ritesh Deshmukh, with direction and production by Rohan and Ramesh Sippy. These good actors must have a hard time getting out of bed sometimes to make silly fare like this. I have yet to see a Bollywood flick which isn't a budget copy, so good playback equipment sure helps. Dhoom (meaning BLAST) is the second feature of this 2-in-1 set. Have I written that Uday Chopra's clown character in the first movie was much more interesting than he was in Dhoom 2?


Here's our giant Christmas Cactus -- well over a hundred flowers are starting to bloom in time for the Holiday Season. Stay tuned to watch them develop!