Spring Semester is just about DONE -- and so are the students and faculty. The weather couldn't be better. Gotta keep that Skunk-gate up on my back deck. We think he/she found an unused, nearly-forgotten pet door leading from the pantry to the back deck and tore the none-too-sturdy fixture away. Insulation was pushed in from the outside wall of the pantry, and it's all-too-possible that one of these badger-like creatures was the culprit. About six weeks ago we saw one at the same spot. A Skunk in the pantry, or ANYWHERE inside your house, is too ugly to contemplate!


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 Summer approaches to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Check out Hockaday Museum of Art's online preview of the 4th Annual Spring for Glacier Auction on May 25, 2007 in Glacier National Park!
I'm videotaping the keynote speaker tomorrow at Flathead Valley Community College's graduation ceremony. The last time I was anywhere near one of those things was back in 1979 when I was pedaling my 10 Speed up a long sweaty hill at the University of Utah on a hot weekend afternoon. Suddenly I was navigating through a sea of suits, ties, and other formal wear, while I was only clad in cut-off Levis. (I'd clamped my shirt and other scraps of clothing onto the back of the bike.) "This is MY college graduation!" I thought, and I was correct -- my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree arrived in the mail soon afterward.
My high school graduation ceremony was a full cap-and-gown affair, and everyone had a pretty good time -- until Robert Kennedy died from an assassin's bullet later that night.

Media Watch: T - R - A-S-H! That spells TRASH! Cheryl Burke wasn't able to loosen up her uptight partner Ian enough on dancing With The Stars to advance any further. We voted completely for Apolo and Jullianne Hough, even though Kym Johnson and Joey were alright in their second dance. Karina Smirnoff and Edyta Slyvinska did an ultra-slow number, with professional partners, to an ultra-slow ballad by Enrique Inglesas (and the Lip-Sinques). The women were decked-out in typical Edyta costumes -- mostly nude with fabric flowing off the limbs on one side, which worked well for all the turns and flourishes they needed to liven up that dead-weight song. Someone might ask in fun, "Why don't all these ballroom dancers wear their dresses over the MIDDLE of their bodies like everyone else?"

Theatre/Theater: Footsbarn Theatre's The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Mankind is a mouth, of which I am the cry
One night, one night of storm, a little deserted child, an orphan, alone in this immeasurable creation, I made my entrance into this darkness which you call society; the first thing I saw was the law, under the form of a gallows; the second was riches, your riches, under the form of a woman dead of cold and hunger; the third, the future, under the form of a child, left to die; the fourth, goodness, truth and justice, under the figure of a vagabond whose sole friend and companion was a wolf.
This adventure begins on the coast of Cornwall in a stormy night, where Footsbarn began it’s own epic journey 35 years ago. Our protagonists are travelling clowns. Set against the background of a Shakespearean world, we travel to Southwark Fair and the royal court in London -- An epic, a great human adventure to be told simply and fully, what’s more exciting!?!


Remaining Tour Dates -- Montbard, France
25th May - 8.30pm
26th May - 8.30pm
27th May - 5.00pm