Hot, with low clouds keeping the humidity high. Waterbirds were fishing in the sunset at Dry Bridge Slough

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!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED -- Wilma Deering and Dale Arden to the rescue!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution this Summer to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The staff at the new Hilton Garden Inn has been friendly to me all week. Thursday was the hardest day yet, but it is over now.

Media Watch: Dream Girls on DVD -- sad story, but the outlines are true to many singing groups. There's a rumor that the Broadway play made Diana Ross so unhappy that she's never forgiven Mary Wilson for being a consultant on the project. Only Ms. Ross knows if that story's true, but the world won't forgive her if she refuses to re-form the Supremes while she, Mary, and Cindy Birdsong can still do all those good songs justice.
(...and if they sang with Motown's own studio band, the Funk Brothers -- THAT would be a joy to contemplate!)


Dry Bridge Slough, looking south -- it curves to the west a hundred or so yards further. We now own the house from which I took this photo.