Cool mornings still -- the days are warm, so how do you dress? It's not Monday but the post-moving experience still SUX! (I finally got my phone working, so I can begin to compute at home.)

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Emeryville, California; Elmont, New York; and the local neighborhood.

Remembering my friend George-O at: 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; The Orson Welles Rumor Debunked; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!
Read my latest Spitfires in Context essay.

Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The new Inuit Art show is going up at the Hockaday Museum of Art throughout this week, but the formal opening isn't until October.

Media Watch: According to NME.com, the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin will be performing in London on November 26. Jason Bonham will be their designated drummer. It's part of a fund-raiser for a foundation named in honor of the great talent scout and record company executive Ahmet Ertegun.
Yesterday was 9/11/2007 -- there was a lot of mourning going on, especially since the wounds from that day in 2001 haven't healed. Osama Bin Laden is still active, and America's basic social institutions are in danger because of gross corruption in it's ruling elite. Steps we are taking to heal are slow and difficult, but resignation to things as they are is unacceptable.

Lightening Up:


My Salon entry this year is stacked with Chorus Ladies -- this is a digitized re-interpretation of a program cover and promotional photo from Las Vegas' Dunes Hotel circa 1966.