Sudden thaws in the mid-days have created a lot of iced-over puddles in the mornings. I'm not sure those Robins were able to find any defrosted worms in the college lawn yesterday.

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: Make a resolution as the days get brighter to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: I'm doing one of my Saturday shifts at the Hockaday Museum of Art, so I'll be sneaking in a line or two between tasks.

Media Watch: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) (2005), a film about polymath Melvin Van Peebles -- read his Wikipedia Entry. This is a guy who knows how to live! Because of his prolific days in Paris, he received the Legion of Honor near the end of the film, just like Ida Rubinstein, patroness of our blog. Before he made movies, he also wrote novels (in French) and worked with the Panique group of Parisian cartoonists: Roland Topor, Alejandro Jodorosky et al.


Panique artists (L to R) Olivier O. Olivier, Christian Zeimert, Roland Topor, and Fernando Arrabal in 1965, along with some guests. The overlaid playing cards are designed by Topor himself and may represent some of these personalities, present or future.