Keep your eyes open at dusk in Northwestern Montana! I caught a slight movement ahead and slowed down, just as the smallish Whitetail Deer crossed in front of me. The days are hot, and will stay hot for the time being. The nights are cool enough to sleep soundly, though.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: 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 in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Arts In The Park is going full-blast now -- it's an annual fundraising open-air art show for The Hockaday Museum of Art. The Glacier Rod Run -- an annual antique car rally held their spectacular parade down Main Street this morning as well. Our director was over at Herron Park watching horse-jumping this morning before she came to work. I met her newly-arrived foreign exchange student Pierre-Louis when they arrived at Depot Park, and by the longest of odds he happens to live in the Bourbonaise region of France -- which is where I am going to work with Footsbarn Theatre again for three weeks, starting this Thursday.

Media Watch: Young and Innocent, and The 39 Steps on TCM last night -- two English movies by Alfred Hitchcock, before David O. Selznick lured him to America in the late 30's. The former movie was supposed to be in Cornwall, but there were only one or two scenes that remotely looked like the place where I spent a wonderful year of my life working with Footsbarn Theatre when they were located there. (Phonyness is not a Hollywood monopoly.)

La Chaussee in Central France during Footsbarn Theatre's 25th Anniversary Celebration 10 years ago.

(Inset) The hedgerows of Cornwall where I worked with Footsbarn Theatre in the 70's - Trewen, our home base, was about 1 km up that hill you see from where I took this photo.

The hovering Red Tail hawk greeted me with a cry when I turned up the hill towards home. There are a few cumulus clouds in the Big Sky, but no signs of rain.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: 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 in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art presents Arts In The Park this weekend. Setup is TONIGHT -- gonna be a hot time in the old town ... y'know. (I invited some folks from the Rebecca Farm Horse Show over to see us. There will also be Glacier Rod Run, the annual antique car rally happening too.)

Media Watch: Going on RIGHT NOW a third of a world away:
IT IS MID SUMMER SO DREAM
Magpie Music Dance Company – July 20 Thursday
OT 301 Amsterdam 22:00 - 5 EURO Door opens 21:00
Dancers: Katie Duck, Vitor Garcia, Makiko Ito, Michael Schumacher, Eileen Standley
Musicians: Cor Fuhler (keyboard), Han Bennink (drums), Mary Oliver (violin,viola) Clayton (bass) light: Ellen Knops


My friend Katie Duck and her dancing Magpie pals jamming to the Spice Girls' hit from last millenium. See the video by Justin Morrison on YouTube.

A lot of commotion outside in the dark last night -- you'd think the wild animals were quieter after the full moon, but NO! It clouded up in the evening yesterday, but if it rained, it was up north, beyond Whitefish.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: 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 in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art presents Arts In The Park this weekend. I made a copy of the Hockaday's Winold Reiss DVD for a Great Northern Railway scholar named Scott Tanner.

Media Watch: (From the USPS press release) The United States Postal Service announced today that DC Comics Super Heroes will be one of the many American icons that will be highlighted on 2006 Commemorative postage stamps. This is the first stamp pane (20 stamps) honoring comic book super heroes to be issued by the Postal Service.
Half of the stamps on the DC Comics Super Heroes pane show portraits of characters; the others show covers of individual comic books devoted to their exploits.
Upper Half: Batman Art by Jim Lee & Scott Williams; Wonder Woman Art by Ross Andru & Mike Esposito Wonder Woman has been an iconic inspiration for countless women since her debut in All Star Comics #8 in December 1941. The most recognizable female character in comics, created by William Moulton Marston, remains a figure of strength, beauty and courage; Plastic Man Art by Dick Giordano; Superman Art by Curt Swan & Sheldon Moldoff Ever since his debut in the pages of Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the Superman character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster has been an icon; Green Lantern Art by Neal Adams The Flash Art by Carmine Infantino & Murphy Anderson; Aquaman Art by Jim Aparo; Hawkman Art by Murphy Anderson; Supergirl Art by Curt Swan & Stan Kaye; Green Arrow Art by Jack Kirby & Mike Royer Green Arrow made his debut in More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941). Since then, the Emerald Archer's most notable escapades were in stories drawn by legendary comics creator Jack Kirby in Adventure Comics #250-256 and World's Finest Comics #96-99 spanning 1958-1959.


Lower Half: Plastic Man #4 Summer 1946 Art by Jack Cole -- Plastic Man ... debuted in August 1941; Batman #1 Spring 1940 Art by Bob Kane -- Batman made his debut in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939; The Brave And The Bold #36 June/July 1961 Art by Joe Kubert -- Hawkman returned in 1960, a reincarnated hero from the earlier "Golden Age" of comics. (Editor's note: The Golden Age of Comics took place from the late 1930s to the early 1950s); Green Lantern #4 Jan./Feb. 1961 Art by Gil Kane & Joe Giella; The Flash #111 Feb./Mar. 1960 Art by Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella (The first of DC's "Silver Age" superhero reincarnations); Wonder Woman #22 (2nd series) Nov. 1988 Art by George Pérez; Aquaman #5 Oct. 1989 Art by Curt Swan & Al Vey (A very durable second-banana hero); The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1 Nov. 1982 Art by Rich Buckler & Dick Giordano (Introduced about 1959); Superman #11 July/Aug. 1941 Art by Fred Ray Green Arrow #15 Sept. 2002 Art by Matt Wagner (An imitation Batman, who also spanned the Golden and Silver Ages.)

I put some more deer netting around my Tiger Lilys -- just in time! Even though they are not really hungry, the wild herds graze around the neighborhood after dark. A little wind takes the edge off this summer heat.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: 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 in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The Great Northern Railroad Historical Society visited the Hockaday Museum of Art last night. We had a lot of things to show them in our Crown of the Continent exhibit, and they liked my video and Power Point presentation. The latter was a good idea on the part of our Executive Director to show the interiors of old portfolios and books that we couldn't allow the general public to handle in good conscience. Many contacts were made and renewed.

Media Watch: Mickey Spillane, the first major pulp writer to make it big in the Post-WWII Paperback Revolution passed away. His Mike Hammer novels re-defined the Detective Genre. TCM recently showed Kiss Me Deadly (1955), a beautifully-photographed black and white B-Movie which owed as much to TV as to Film Noir, and presaged the cheapie horror-flicks that filled up Drive-In theaters all through the rest of that decade.

Theater/Theatre: IT IS MID SUMMER SO DREAM
Magpie Music Dance Company – July 20 Thursday
OT 301 Amsterdam 22:00 - 5 EURO Door opens 21:00
Dancers: Katie Duck, Vitor Garcia, Makiko Ito, Michael Schumacher, Eileen Standley
Musicians: Cor Fuhler (keyboard), Han Bennink (drums), Mary Oliver (violin,viola) Clayton (bass) light: Ellen Knops
www.magpiemusicdance.com / http://squat.net/overtoom301.net


Katie Duck (center) and other Magpie Music/Dancers are pole-dancing and freely reacting to Prince Rogers Nelson's famous song. See the video HERE on Justin Morrison's YouTube page.

High Summer -- not too hot, but nobody'll mistake these kind of days for Spring or Fall! The Goslings were sighted on Firehouse Pond and Little Foy's Lake. I wonder if those ugly algae blooms in the pond had anything to do with anything?

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: 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 in Summertime too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Webmaster Blues: I called Michael Hampton, one of the finest electric guitarists in the world, and talked about "his" web pages at http://theatrex.net -- he'll be back touring with George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars this Fall, but he's doing some other things too.

In The Community: Another Sunday at the Hockaday Museum of Art! I was doing a Power Point project for the Great Northern Railroad reception tomorrow night. Arts In The Park starts this upcoming Friday, so my muscles are requested Thursday night. At least our Executive Director asked me to be there. You know what? I'll be doing two festivals in just under a month.

Media Watch: The Governor of Montana came up and introduced himself to me last Thursday! I wrote a diary about our meeting on DailyKos -- a site to which we both contribute . Some nice people added to my story, including Governor Schweitzer himself!
Book TV had good presenters on two scary subjects -- Polio and Living Wills.
PBS had a whole "string" of good programs, including another chapter in their Blues series, and a fabulous jam led by Bill Lasiwell on Soundstage -- Pharoah Sanders, Buckethead, Brain, and Bootsy Collins were only SOME of Lasiwell's guests. Nova had a Physics survey entitled "The Elegant Universe" that hit some high points about the discoveries of Newton, Einstein, and Bohr, ending up with the promise of "String Theory," which has yet to be proven -- but is SO elegant, or so the math guys say.

TWO Vincent Price movies on Sunday! Roger Corman's The Raven again, and a horror-ible flick called Dr. Goldfoot & the Bikini Machine (1965) with Frankie Avalon.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs is the sequel ... Made in Italy and released in 1966, Girl Bombs was the final film that (the great) Mario Bava directed for AIP, with Vincent Price as the only returning original cast member. Girl Bombs is perhaps even campier ... and combines elements of both Goldfinger and Thunderball. Also starring are Fabian and Laura Antonelli.
From Brian's Drive In Theater