Rain yesterday, with wind and lower temperatures continuing through today. A Great Blue Heron dipped down about twenty yards in front of us near the Flathead River while we were showing Tari DeWille the fish pond outside of Allen Jimmerson's studio.

We are closing on this property later in the week.
Do you think I'm excited? YES!

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 opening of the new Hilton Garden Inn turned out to be real fun! The Hockaday Museum of Art has a new source of publicity, and the whole local art scene will benefit from the exposure. I will be there as a technician from Wednesday through Friday as part of my duties for Flathead Valley Community College -- five days in one week!

Media Watch: Opera and Jazz on the radio, plus image-captures from DVDs of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, as I prepare for my update of Spitfires of the Spaceways.


(L to R) Princess Aura, as portrayed by Priscilla Lawson in the wonderfully barbaric 1936 Flash Gordon serial. Shirley Deane's helpless, sexless Princess Aura of 1940 was likely WRITTEN to be passive and dull by unimaginative hacks in the backlots of Hollywood. Deane unfortunately pales in comparison to Lawson's Spitfire of all Spaceway Spitfires!