"Spike" the Whitetail buck visited us again. (See his picture below!) The very air is condensing into ice crystals on the roads and sidewalks under this cold, cold fog.



"Spike" scrounges around our old Sunflowers on December 7, 2006.

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: We're going to have to give the Minnesota Historical Society some money to research the Winold Reiss School. It WILL be cheaper than going there myself -- something like this also puts a price tag on how well one communicates with strangers. Hockaday Museum of Art

Media Watch: Thursday Night Football was two groups of men fighting on a frozen tundra at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Would have been just as bad at the other team's field in Cleveland, Ohio.) My TV looked like it was frosting up just by tuning in, or was that ESPN's cameras? Speaking of which, that same network is showing the University of Montana/University of Massachusetts AA College Football Championship game tonight about 120 miles away in Missoula, Montana.
The History Channel ruminated at length about the Seven Wonders of the World -- ancient world, that is. The Gizeh Pyramids are all that are left today, and there are disputes about whether the Hanging Gardens were in Babylon or Nineveh. An earthquake knocked the Pharos down, but we just might recover some of it one day. The Mausoleum and Temple of Diana may have a fragment or two lying around, but we know their sites, as we know the location of Zeus' temple in Olympia. The Colossus of Rhodes seems to have the most questions about it.
Damn! Did Christian Emperor Theodosius the Great really strip and destroy Zeus' statue at Olympia? That was a mean, heartless thing to do. He probably paid his largely-Barbarian armies with the loot -- those same armies which later sacked Rome and almost took over the Eastern Empire during the reigns of his two worthless sons.
A century earlier, Diocletian ended the Olympic games, claiming that their homoeroticism affronted the Gods -- old Zeus must not have had any pull any more.