Rainy day -- the whole place is greening up at last, except the mountains are getting whiter. Goldfinches are eating at our tube feeders.

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 Spring resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Check out our new design at the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website. I'm scrambling to do a multi-media powerpoint presentation about the late Walter Hook for Thursday night. I can't be there because of the last Honors Symposium, but I'll be setting up in BOTH places.

Media Watch: Sixty years ago Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League sports. He was an excellent ballplayer, but was also chosen to be a pioneer of Racial Integration because of the iron control he had over his temper. There is still a lot of work for our society to tackle nowadays, but Robinson's legacy will always remain great.

Junque-O-Rama -- Dancing With The Stars featured an INCREDIBLE performance by Jullien Hough and Apolo Anton Ohno. Hough insisted the Samba was her favorite dance, and proved it. She might have looked kinda goofy in her tigress leotard, but all was forgotten when the two of them moved.

Jeff Foxworthy reportedly said about the Dixie Chicks, "I understand the songs on that album are great, but I listen to country radio so I haven't heard them yet..." He might have actually said a few more things too, since he was hosting the Country Music Awards last night, but this somewhat-bitter joke says quite a lot.
Hmmm -- If you laugh at slantwise remarks about the Dixie Chicks, might you just be a ... redneck??
Laugh if you want -- when opinions are just opinions, everyone is entitled to theirs.
One thing I do know -- if someone really supports the wrongheaded, corrupt, and failing actions of the Bush Administration, they are a fellow-crook or an abject idiot. Facts matter, and the criminals of Bu$hCo are lined up on the wrong side of reality.

Our college's flags are at half-staff. We're all sad about the horrible news from Virginia Tech -- condolences to everybody's family. There are lessons to learn, but let's get through the mourning first.

I was in the mood to watch a documentary about Yves St. Laurent -- what a great artist! He deserves a lot of credit for his achievments in making women's clothes which freed the people who wore them to be comfortable and express themselves. It would take a book or two to really explore his contibutions to High Fashion and the clothing industry as a whole. The film featured some wonderful moments with St. Laurent himself speaking to an unseen interviewer -- we all shared a seat at the feet of his wisdom. That's what good filmmaking is all about!


(Above) Yves St. Laurent around 1967 -- Artist As A Young Man, with one of his models, and himself circa 2002. (Below) Some sketches by this remarkable man, and samples from his wonderfully funny and successful Mondrian series in 1965.