Welcome Dublin! I hope your French visitors had a good time. Over here, we got NO snow from the current storm front. In fact, it's warmer than it's been for a month! There were two little fawns grazing next to my garage last evening when I got home, and a couple of Whitetails were across the street when I drove off this morning. Last weeks rains caused almost $5 Million in damage to Glacier National Park.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris, from my jet-lagged first 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 sneaks around on us! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The Going-To-The Sun Road is a major economic link during the summer months. The Hockaday's Winold Reiss School exhibit is connected to the community of St. Mary's, on the other side of the park. Unfortunately, the collapse of some of that road adds over an hour each way in order to travel there -- bad luck for me (ferrying paintings) and the tourists. There are many political reasons to fix Going-To-The-Sun Road, and I think they are going to find the money.

Media Watch: I saw some great shows on Book TV over the weekend, but I'm going to take the LOW road today -- Trash A-Go-Go, uh, Dancing with the Stars had a surprise in store for their finale: Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke won the trophy. Good for Cheryl -- that's TWO championships on this show!
However, Mario Lopez was BY FAR the better celebrity-dancer, despite Smith's improvement over the last ten weeks. I believe the "Fan Factor" distorted the results this season. Who knows? Maybe they'll milk it with another dance-off, like they did before.


Via Cheryl Burke's Website -- a picture of the winners.