The Canadian Geese are still around -- it's not Autumn unless they are migrating.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
Click on Exceptionally Yours to find Footsbarn Theatre

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 Autumn approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Media Watch: (Updated 8/26/2006) OK, I watched Richard O'Brien's musical film Shock Treatment. There was even a song I liked called Little Black Dress. It stood out because it displayed some of O'Brien's wit. He worked with Jim Sharmon on the screenplay, and Richard Hartley on the musical arrangements. I was WRONG -- Uninspiring Cliff DeYoung was both Brad Majors, and his evil twin, spending most of the time bound and gagged. Nell Campbell and Charles Gray from Rocky Horror were both good in their roles.
I am going to write a little about Jessica Harper. She played "Janet Majors," with barely a word said about "Janet Weiss." She was the object of unhealthy public and private obsession in this flick. Day-um! Ms. Harper was the target of unwelcome attention in at least three movies I know of -- Phantom of the Paradise, Suspiria, and a creepy TV movie where the late, great Vic Morrow (playing one of his most loathsome villains EVER) drives Jessica's character insane with psycho-sexual torment. She was the object of Steve Martin's NEGLECT in Pennies from Heaven, but thank goodness very few people have seen that pile of poop.
Jessica Harper is a perfectly good actor, with an undeniable, if anorexic, style of beauty, but she's sure been in some odd films during her career. (NOTE: I love Suspiria, but it's not for everybody. Director Dario Argento indulges in some very violent scenes.)

Theater/Theatre: Your Footsbarn Photo for Today!


Volunteers Julie (Left) and Karine (Right) lightheartedly pose on the guylines in front of Les Voyagers chapiteau (tent), while awaiting their signal to take the customers' tickets.

A little spiked Whitetail male deer ran across the highway in front of me this morning -- meaning that Fall is on it's way. Stick around the 'hood, little fellow, they can't shoot ya' here.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
Click on Exceptionally Yours to find Footsbarn Theatre

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 Autumn approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Media Watch: All We Are Saying -- a film by Rosanna Arquette, in the same vein as Looking for Debroah Winger, meaning interviews, only this time it's Rock musicians instead of woman movie actors. There's some bitchin' pissin' and moaning, but there are other insights too. Yoko Ono is in the film, and probably signed off on the title. Young Ms. Arquette was reportedly the subject of Toto's greatest hit Rosanna.

Theater/Theatre: Another Footsbarn picture for your day!


(Center) Josephine Biereye, as Security and (Right) Caroline Piette as Interviewer simultaneously on-stage and on-camera during an especially satirical segment of Homo Haereticus. (Mas Soegeng is Cameraman at the Left).

A Kingfisher was hunting on Middle Foy's Lake last evening! He/she sat right on our log while I was washing the dishes -- first one I've seen there.

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 as Autumn approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Media Watch: Soldiers Three (1951) with David Niven and the great Robert Newton on TCM -- had to tape it. Do not confuse with Sergeants Three, a Rat Pack version of Gunga Din as a western, although Rudyard Kipling gets some of the credit for both films.

Theater/Theatre: Your Footsbarn picture of the day!


St. George and the Lady
Rachelle rides behind Christophe, Circus Werdyn's energetic stunt rider after her "rescue" from Puca on the first day of Footsbarn's 35th Anniversary Celebration, August 9, 2006.

A Bald Eagle was flying right over the deck this morning -- followed by three Magpies perched on the rail scolding us for a lack of peanuts -- let 'em complain!

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 as Autumn approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Theater/Theatre: Another Footsbarn picture -- Featuring Footsbarn Theatre itself!


Incisive satire leads to the beauty of timeless communication. Josephine Biereye, Joe Cunningham, Michel Durantin, Noelie Giraud, Vincent Gracieux, Paddy Hayter, Caroline Piette, Muriel Piquart, and Mas Soegeng in Homo Haereticus.

Coyotes are still howling at night -- the neighborhood dogs bark back, but there's not much else they can do. I'm not sure what those three huge birds were who hovered over Middle Foy's Lake yesterday, but they weren't Ospreys -- Vultures maybe. I saw a flock of about two dozen Magpies on Buckboard Lane. Usually they gather in much smaller groups. I wonder if something big has died in the tall grass somewhere nearby?

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 as Autumn approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The last Sunday shift for me at the Hockaday Museum of Art this year! I traded days around to make sure I was clear for my trip to France. I am pleased by what we have on the walls here, especially since I was relieved of doing this particular tear-down and installation for almost the first time in seven years -- David Secrest is a modern metal sculptor with wit and charm in every piece; Francis Senska had a long and productive career. We are showing first-rate ceramics, expressionistic lithographs, drawings and paintings by this great lady of Montana art; We have a half-dozen paintings by late local legend Ace Powell; and we have updated our Crown of the Continent exhibit with a couple of Glacier National Park landscapes by the fastidiously detailed Nicholas Oberling.
Flathead Valley Community College won first place for it's float in the parade which I videotaped in a jet-lagged haze last Friday. It was simple and effective -- as the music of the Village People boomed through speakers on a flatbed hay truck, we had riders dressed as the many types of people who take classes at our community college -- which is EVERY kind of person who lives here.
It's fun to go to F-V-C-C!

Media Watch: Richard (Riff-Raff) O'Brien's misbegotten follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show was on the cable, so I recorded it. It's called Shock Treatment, and features Barry (Brad) Bostwick and cult movie star Jessica (Suspiria) Harper. These facts don't mean that the movie is any good, however. I'm pretty sure O'Brien relented his sensibilities under various pressures, in this case.
Allen Toffler was on CSPAN, but the host was Newt Gingrich -- I can't watch any program with the likes of him or Grover Norquist directing conversations while pretending to be polite in the company of borrowed intelligence (rather than their own immoral, predatory, cunning opportunism).

Theater/Theatre: Stay tuned for another Footsbarn picture! I have about 2000 of 'em, and will post one as soon as I am on a machine that will let me.


As promised -- from the midway at La Chaussee. Rachelle gets up close and personal with friendly Mr. Pucca. She portrays a "Lady In Distress" to his "Dragon" during one of our pre-show parades. A trick horse rider from Circus Werdyn will soon show up, dressed as "St. George," to carry her away to safety.