Middle Foys Lake lost another few acres of ice. Firehouse Pond is ice-free. Little Foy's Lake was difficult to assess, because of heavy rains. The deer thought it was twilight and were out grazing midday yesterday.

NEW -- Modern Dance at: Theater X-Net

Featuring: 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!

Webmaster's Notes: I got a couple of emails from a nice European guy, Patrick Van De Velde, about my Ida Rubinstein site -- mostly about Antonio de La Gandara, one of her portraitists. A French Antonio de La Gandara Website

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution for Easter too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: JEFFERSON'S WALL: AMERICA'S DEBATE OVER CHURCH AND STATE.
Prof. Robert G. Natelson from U. of M. in Missoula was more of a scholar on Constitutional History last night. He avoided being baited into right-wing rants, and was surprisingly reasonable. He missed a couple of facts, but to be fair who doesn't?
I managed to do sound, run the data projector, and record the event on video. Ivan ran around the hall with the audience mic during Q&A, though!
I'm also videotaping Americorps tomorrow and Sunday, plus another event on Monday night.

Media Watch: The Invisible Ray, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi from 1936 -- Carpathia, Africa, Paris, Radium X, pseudo-science fiction, and murder!


Spitfires of the Spaceways preview: Wilma Deering, Buck Rogers' long-suffering sidekick, got to be a spitfire late in the Buster Crabbe serial from 1938. She was played by big-band singer Constance Moore, and deserved a moment of effective action. Once she let her hair down, all HELL broke loose for the bad guys.

The ice only covers about 60% of Middle Foys Lake. Firehouse Pond is almost ice-free. Little Foy's lake is melting at the edges, but it's heavily shadowed most of the day. The big waterbirds are nesting, and we're watching for Bluebirds!

NEW -- Modern Dance at: Theater X-Net

Featuring: 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!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution for Easter too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: JEFFERSON'S WALL: AMERICA'S DEBATE OVER CHURCH AND STATE.
Prof. Robert G. Natelson from the School of Law at U. of M. in Missoula was recently on sabbatical at Oxford University, and claims he researched Thomas Jefferson's writings there. There's a chance this may be an informative lecture if this is the subject, and his research was rigorous. Unfortunately, Natleson has a history of being a right-wing extremist -- who nods and winks at violent threats against state judges who have repeatedly overturned his foolishly unconstitutional ballot initiatives. Will we see a scholar or a demagogue?
I'm doing sound, running a data projector, and recording the event on video. I don't want to run around the hall with an audience mic, though!

Media Watch: I am sick with some out-of-left-field congestion, so I sat back and captured some Flash Gordon sequences for my upcoming Spitfires of the Spaceways page:


Spitfire Number One is undoubtedly Princess Aura (played by Priscilla Lawson), who repeatedly saves Flash Gordon's life, but gets him into serious trouble again and again. She is implacably hostile towards Dale Arden (played by Jean Rogers), even going so far as to hunt her down with the "Sacred Tigron" beneath Ming's palace -- only to see Flash come to Dale's rescue one more time.