That winter storm finally showed up -- we've been getting steady snowfall since the AM. The wind is blowing snow underneath the covered sidewalks on our campus, though, which makes rolling expensive equipment between the buildings a challenge, not to mention the travails of the guy who cleans the walks, and has to start over the minute he finishes.

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: New updates on the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website. I've extended our Power Point presentation in the Crown of the Continent/Glacier National Park gallery -- it now includes a portfolio of Blackfeet portraits by lithographer Joe Scheulere. Thanks to digitization, we are able to show our visitors the contents of those old souvenier books without wearing them out further.

Media Watch: I like Penn & Teller, but I've been less than impressed with their show Bullshit! on Showtime Networks. My sister convinced me to give BS another try. I watched two of them, and got a few chuckles. I even agreed with their points of view, but the shows were still too shallow for me to recommend.
That being said, I personally experienced the Boy Scouts of America turning into an undisguised extension of the Mormon (LDS) Church, witnessing the undoing of many values scouting once claimed to uphold, and was glad to see someone calling their hypocritical bluff. Penn & Teller's choices of crypto-zoologists were guys who were too obviously silly to have any credibility at all. It was fun seeing how much mileage you could get out of obviously fake Bigfoot video, though.


Welcome to the Blogosphere!


My friend, musician & theatrical manager John Kilby, has started his own blog:
Bloggin' In The Wind
Here's a photo from Footsbarn's 35th Anniversary Celebration with
(L to R) Mohammed, John, Annouk, Kascha, and Davy Johnson.