Cool mornings warming up to hot evenings -- who knows what this very desert-like year will show us next? Algae is building up on the waters in the 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 & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!

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

In The Community: New material on the Hockaday Museum of Art's website. I'm STILL pulling cable and installing equipment in the new building on campus today.

Media Watch: Wonderwall from 1968 -- a comedy-drama about obsession, filmed when London was REALLY swinging. The clothes and settings were the best things about this fairly well-done, but frankly none-too-compelling flick. George Harrison's soundtrack of Indian Music wasn't bad at all either, but his audience didn't want any more of it back then -- they'd put up with Ravi Shankar, because he was an undeniable classical master, but turned back towards Rock as another Golden Age of amplified music erupted from their radio speakers.


Wonderwall's co-star Jane Birkin became internationally famous for candidly expressing her sexuality in various artistic media. (There are important differences between performers who are adults, and mere adult entertainers.) This is one of her playful poses digitally transformed (by ME) into a Mondrian-like composition in honor of the 60's.