Golden Eye Ducks around the aereation pond on Middle Foy's Lake. Skunk on the back deck last night, but no bad smells -- the Deer must have left him/her alone. Seagulls calling around the college campus -- what language!

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!
SPECIAL: Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution as Spring (slowly) approaches to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: We got the museum into fair shape for today's Senior Tour and Tea. We've moved over a hundred works of art over the last few days -- thankfully, most of them were small. Tomorrow night is the Auction of Miniatures preview party at the Hockaday. FREE to the public! Don't miss: Auction of Miniatures thumbnail pictures and a bid form on the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website.

Media Watch: Marvel Comics is getting all sorts of free press for "bumping off" Captain America. As I said yesterday -- YEAH RIGHT!

Another homage to Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's anything-but-subtle stars-and-stripes super-hero -- born as a comic-book protest to pro-Nazi Bunden and America Firsters before the USA even entered WWII. Against a poster for a 40's chapter serial starring Dick Purcell and Lorna Gray, I've placed images of Captain America by Jack Kirby and Syd Shores in 1941, with Cap's long-lost sidekick Bucky, and his arch-nemesis the Red Skull in the frame; Jim Steranko's graphical mixture of Will Eisner with Kirby in 1970; and a sketch from Kirby & Shores' brief reunification in 1969.


Jack split with Joe Simon in the 50's, and revived Captain America in the pages of Marvel's Avengers around 1964. Our hero had supposedly been frozen in Arctic ice since the 40's. The injection which made him super probably had something to do with it, and might play a part in the NEXT phase of this fictional character's existence.